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Lucian Michael Freud (; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish architect Ernst L. Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud.
27 de oct. de 2019 · In a world first, we unite Lucian Freud’s self-portraits in one extraordinary exhibition. See more than 50 paintings, prints and drawings in which this modern master of British art turns his unflinching eye firmly on himself.
20 de jul. de 2011 · Lucian Freud was a British artist, famous for his portraits and self-portraits painted in an expressive neo-figurative style. He was born in Berlin, the grandson of the revolutionary psychologist Sigmund Freud, and the son of an architect Ernst Freud and an art historian Lucie Brasch.
- British
- December 8, 1922
- Berlin, Germany
- July 20, 2011
As we unite more than 50 of Lucian Freud’s self-portraits for the first time ever, here’s a handy guide to get to know the man whose painted, printed and drawn figure is in our galleries this autumn. He is one of art’s most influential portraitists. Lucian Freud (1922–2011) changed how we look at people.
- Childhood and Education
- Early Training
- Mature Period
- Later Period
- The Legacy of Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud was born into an artistic middle-class Jewish family. His father Ernst was an architect, his mother Lucie Brasch studied art history, and his grandfather was the paradigm-shifting psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. In 1933, Freud and his family left Berlin to escape Hitler and settled in London. Freud began making art - and exhibiting it - a...
Despite early talent, his unruly behavior resulted in him being forced out of multiple schools; once for dropping his pants in a public street. Serious art training began for Freud in 1939 when he enrolled in the East Anglican School of Painting and Drawing in Essex. In 1941 after a brief three months spent in the Merchant Navy, Freud finished his ...
Portraiture soon became the main subject of Freud's work. The process of sitting for a portrait by Freud was not an easy one and it often took months of multiple hour sittings for the artist to be satisfied. The great British painter David Hockneyclaimed to have sat for a portrait for Freud for hundreds of hours over many months, while reciprocaly,...
The late 1980s brought recognition on an international level. This was in part due to a powerful and eye-opening 1987 four-country retrospective. As a result he was internationally represented by the American art dealer William Acquavella. Later portraits by Freud include many famous subjects such as artist David Hockney, art critic Martin Gayford,...
Freud's challenges to the conventions of portraiture have inspired legions of figurative painters. The alternate model for male representation established by his groundbreaking series of portraits of the performance artist Leigh Bowery laid the groundwork for other socially transgressive figurative painters, among them John Currin and Eric Fischl. ...
- British
- December 8, 1922
- Berlin, Germany
- July 20, 2011
Overview. Provenance. Exhibition History. References. Title: Man's head – Portrait I. Artist: Lucian Freud (British (born Germany), Berlin 1922–2011 London) Date: 1959–60. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 22 × 22 in. (55.9 × 55.9 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Gift of Drue Heinz Trust, 2018. Accession Number: 2018.651.3.
Lucian Michael Freud OM CH [1] ( / frɔɪd /; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish architect Ernst L. Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud.
