Frank Helmut Auerbach (born April 29, 1931) is a jewish painter. His work typically portrays either one of a small group of female models or scenes around London, especially Camden Town, where his studio is located. April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (120th in leap years). ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... A painter is a person who paints woodwork, walls, etc. ... Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London is the most populous city in the European Union, with an estimated population on 1 January 2005 of 7,421,328 and a metropolitan area population of between 12 and 14 million. ... Camden Town is a place in the London Borough of Camden, north London. ...

Auerbach was born in Berlin, but his parents sent him to England in 1939 to escape the Nazis (the family was Jewish). He has remained there ever since, taking British nationality in 1947. This article is about the city in Germany. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England Inter. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Nazism. ... // The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי transliterated: Yehudi) is used in many ways, but generally refers to a follower of Judaism, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity; and often a combination of these attributes. ...

He studied art first at St Martin's School of Art in London and later at the Royal College of Art. He also had lessons with David Bomberg who encouraged him to take inspiration from Paul Cezanne. Resources ArtLex. ... Central Saint Martins at Holborn The Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, (or Central Saint Martins) is one of the leading colleges of art and design in England. ... The Royal College of Art in South Kensington, London. ... David Bomberg (December 5, 1890 – August 19, 1957) was a British painter. ... Categories: 1839 births | 1906 deaths | French painters | Post-impressionism | Artist stubs ...

Auerbach is a figurative painter, usually taking personal friends as his subject, with three people being used time and again: his wife Julia; the professional model, Juliet Yardley Mills (usually referred to as J. Y. M. in titles); and his personal friend, Stella West (usually referred to as E. O. W.). He has also made a number of landscapes of scenes close to his London home, often taking building sites as the subject rather than the traditional hills and sheep.

Auerbach's work might broadly be called expressionist. Many of his paintings display an extremely thick impasto, something which he was criticised for at his first solo show in 1956. The impasto is sometimes so heavy that the paint seems to have been sculpted rather than brushed on. In his building site pictures in particular, lines are sometimes defined not by their colour, but by a mark left by the stroke of Auerbach's painting-knife through thick paint. On White II by Wassily Kandinsky, 1923. ... Impasto is a technique used in painting where paint is laid on an area of the surface (or the entire canvas) very thickly, usually thickly enough that the brush or painting-knife strokes are visible. ...

A similarly sculptural aspect can often be found even in his drawings: Auerbach layers multiple sheets of paper as much as half an inch in thickness and in some parts of the drawing he may erase so heavily as to go through several sheets. This can be readily seen in the area surrounding the upper part of the head in his 1960 Head of Julia. [1]

The first major retrospective of Auerbach's work was presented in 1978 by the Arts Council of Great Britain for the Hayward Gallery, London, and then toured to the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh. Other major shows have included "Frank Auerbach: Paintings and Drawings 1977-85" at the British Pavilion at the XLII Venice Biennale (1986), where he shared the Golden Lion prize with Sigmar Polke; "Frank Auerbach at the National Gallery: Working after the Masters" (1995), at the National Gallery, London, presented drawings made over a thirty-year period from paintings in the National Gallery's collection; a major retrospective at the London's Royal Academy in 2001. Many of his works are in the permanent collection of the Tate Gallery. [2] The Arts Council of Great Britain was a Quango dedicated to the promotion of the fine arts in Britain. ... View of Pump Room, a work by the Hungarian artist Balázs Kicsiny at the Venice Biennale in 2005. ... Sigmar Polke (born 1941 in Oels, Silesia, now Olensica, Poland) is a German artist. ... The National Gallery from Trafalgar Square The National Gallery is an art gallery in London, located on the north side of Trafalgar Square. ... This article refers to an art institution in London. ... The Tate Gallery in the United Kingdom is a network of four galleries and a virtual presence: Tate Britain (opened 1897), Tate Liverpool (1988), Tate St Ives (1993), Tate Modern (2000) and Tate Online (1998). ...

External links

• The Royal Academy of Arts: Frank Auerbach
• Auerbach works at the Tate
• "It's about time", The Guardian's review of the Royal Academy of Arts retrospective, September 11, 2001

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Further reading

• Hughes, Robert, Frank Auerbach, Thames and Hudson (1990, ISBN 0500092117), reissued 1992 (ISBN 0500276757)