Fanchon Fröhlich

Fanchon Fröhlich (née Angst; 1927 – 2016) was an American artist.

Born Fanchon Angst in Waterloo, Iowa as the deserted child of Joseph Aungst and his wife, Helen, Fröhlich won several scholarships and studied at the University of Chicago under Rudolf Carnap and continued in 1949 at Somerville College, Oxford, studying post-Wittgenstein linguistic philosophy behind P. F. Strawson, gaining a BLitt degree in 1953.

She married physicist Herbert Fröhlich in 1950, whom she met on the boat from America to Liverpool.

As a postgraduate student she began to study at the Liverpool College of Art. She worked later than Peter Lanyon in St Ives, Cornwall, in Paris next László Szabó, with Stanley William Hayter in Atelier 17 and when Goto-San in Kyoto, where she went in 1972. She was then a friend of Erwin Schrödinger.

After her husband's death in 1991, she founded Collective Phenomena, working together later than abstract artists subsequent to music by Lawrence Ball. They exhibited in Paris (under the guidance of John Calder), London and Liverpool.

She wrote publications on philosophy of science and art, and co-written books just about Stanley William Hayter and her husband. Fanchon died on 14 June 2016 at the age of 88.