Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud. Composite image by procsilas
Born	8 December 1922 Berlin, Germany
Nationality	British
Field	Portrait painting, Nudes
Training	Central School of Art, London, East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing, Dedham, Essex, Goldsmiths College, London
Movement	Realism, Expressionism, Surrealism

Lucian Michael Freud, OM, CH (born 8 December 1922) is a British painter and printmaker. Freud was born in Berlin, Germany in 1922, son of Jewish parents Ernst Ludwig Freud, an architect, and Lucie née Brasch. He is the grandson of Sigmund Freud and brother of writer and politician Clement Raphael Freud and of Stephan Gabriel Freud. Freud and his family moved to the UK in 1933 due to the rise of Nazism, gaining British citizenship in 1939. During this period he attended Dartington Hall school in Totnes, Devon, and then Bryanston School. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (427x1061, 268 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Lucian Freud ... December 8 is the 342nd day (343rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... Location of Berlin within Germany / EU Coordinates Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Administration Country NUTS Region DE3 City subdivisions 12 boroughs Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit (SPD) Governing parties SPD / Left. ... Portrait painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to depict the visual appearance of the subject, mostly a person, whereas the portrait is expected to show the essence of the subject. ... Nudity or nakedness is the state of wearing no clothing. ... 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. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Dedham is a village within the Borough of Colchester in northeast Essex, United Kingdom. ... Goldsmiths College (founded in 1891 by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths as Goldsmiths Technical and Recreative Institute) has been a part of the federal University of London since 1904, when it took its current name. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Look up realism, realist, realistic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Scream by Edvard Munch (1893) which inspired 20th century Expressionists Portrait of Eduard Kosmack by Egon Schiele Rehe im Walde by Franz Marc Elbe Bridge I by Rolf Nesch On White II by Wassily Kandinsky, 1923. ... Yves Tanguy Indefinite Divisibility 1942 Surrealism[1] is a cultural movement that began in the mid-1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members. ... For other Orders see Order of Merit (disambiguation). ... The Order of the Companions of Honour is a British and Commonwealth Order. ... December 8 is the 342nd day (343rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... Painting by Rembrandt self-portrait Detail from Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez, in which the painter portrayed himself at work For the computer graphics program, see Corel Painter. ... Printmaking is a process for producing a work of art in ink; the work (called a print) is created indirectly, through the transfer of ink from the surface upon which the work was originally drawn or otherwise composed. ... Location of Berlin within Germany / EU Coordinates Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Administration Country NUTS Region DE3 City subdivisions 12 boroughs Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit (SPD) Governing parties SPD / Left. ... Ernst Ludwig Freud (born 1892 in Vienna - died 1970 in London) was a German/Austrian architect and the youngest son of Sigmund Freud. ... Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud) May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939; (IPA: ) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who co-founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. ... Sir Clement Freud Sir Clement Raphael Freud (born April 24, 1924) is a British writer, broadcaster, and politician. ... National Socialism redirects here. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full year calendar). ... Dartington Hall Estate Gardens Dartington Hall, near Totnes, Devon, England, is a medieval hall built between 1388 and 1400 for John Holand, Earl of Huntingdon, half-brother to Richard II. After John was beheaded, the Crown owned the estate until it was acquired in 1559 by Sir Arthur Champernowne, Vice... Map sources for Totnes at grid reference SX805605 Arms of Totnes Town Council Totnes (TOTness — emphasis on the first syllable) is a market town in South Devon, England. ... “Devonshire” redirects here. ... Bryanston School is an independent public school in Blandford, north Dorset, near the village of Bryanston. ...

Career

The Painter's Room, 1943, private collection.

Freud studied briefly at the Central School of Art in London then, with greater success, at Cedric Morris's East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Dedham, and also at Goldsmiths College - University of London from 1942-3. Thereafter, he served as a merchant seaman in an Atlantic convoy in 1941 before being invalided out of service in 1942. Freud's first solo exhibition, at the Lefevre Gallery in 1944, featured the now celebrated The Painter's Room. In the summer of 1946, he travelled to Paris before continuing to Italy for several months. Since then he has lived and worked in London. Image File history File links Freud,_The_painter's_room. ... Image File history File links Freud,_The_painter's_room. ... 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. ... Dedham is a town located in Norfolk County, Massachusetts. ... Goldsmiths College (founded in 1891 by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths as Goldsmiths Technical and Recreative Institute) has been a part of the federal University of London since 1904, when it took its current name. ...

Freud's early paintings are often associated with surrealism and depict people and plants in unusual juxtapositions. These works are usually painted with quite thin paint, but from the 1950s he began to paint portraits, often nudes, to the almost complete exclusion of everything else, and began to use a thicker impasto. The colours in these paintings are typically muted. Yves Tanguy Indefinite Divisibility 1942 Surrealism[1] is a cultural movement that began in the mid-1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members. ... Divisions Green algae Chlorophyta Charophyta Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta—liverworts Anthocerotophyta—hornworts Bryophyta—mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) †Rhyniophyta—rhyniophytes †Zosterophyllophyta—zosterophylls Lycopodiophyta—clubmosses †Trimerophytophyta—trimerophytes Pteridophyta—ferns and horsetails Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta—seed ferns Pinophyta—conifers Cycadophyta—cycads Ginkgophyta—ginkgo Gnetophyta—gnetae Magnoliophyta—flowering plants... A portrait is a painting, photograph, or other artistic representation of a person or object. ... The word nude may refer to: The state of nudity. ... Image:Jane Frank Crgs And Crevices. ...

Often Freud's portraits just depict the sitter, sometimes sprawled naked on the floor or on a bed, but sometimes the sitter is juxtaposed with something else, as in Girl With a White Dog and Naked Man With Rat.

Freud's subjects are often the people in his life; friends, family, fellow painters, lovers, children. To quote the artist: "The subject matter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really."

Girl with a white dog, 1951 - 1952, Tate Gallery The subject is Freud's first wife, Kathleen Epstein.

"I paint people," Freud has said, "not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be." Freud has painted a number of fellow artists, including Frank Auerbach and Francis Bacon. He produced a series of portraits of the performance artist Leigh Bowery, and also painted Henrietta Moraes, a muse to many Soho artists. Image File history File links Freud,_girl-white-dog. ... Image File history File links Freud,_girl-white-dog. ... The Tate Gallery in the United Kingdom is a network of four galleries: Tate Britain (opened 1897), Tate Liverpool (1988), Tate St Ives (1993), Tate Modern (2000), with a complementary website Tate Online (1998). ... The Garman Sisters The seven daughters (and two sons) of Walter and Margaret Garman, an eccentric Victorian doctor, lead notoriously high profile lives within mid 20th century artistic circles. ... Frank Helmut Auerbach (born April 29, 1931) is a jewish painter. ... Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an English figurative painter. ... This article is about Performance art. ... Leigh Bowery (March 26, 1961, in Sunshine, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia – December 31, 1994, in London, United Kingdom) was a performance artist, club creature, and clothing designer. ... Henrietta Moraes (d. ...

Freud is one of the best known British artists working in a traditional representational style, and was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1989.^[1] The Turner Prize is an annual prize given to a British visual artist under 50, named after the painter J.M.W. Turner. ...

According to the Sunday Telegraph of 1 September 2002, he is rumoured to have up to 40 illegitimate children, acknowledging them when they have become adults. After an affair with Lorna Garman he went on to marry her niece Kathleen Epstein, also known as Kitty Garman, in 1948, but the marriage ended after four years when he began an affair with Lady Caroline Blackwood, a society girl and writer. They married in 1957. He has children by Jacquetta Lampson, daughter of the first Baron Killearn, and by Bernardine Coverley (fashion designer Bella Freud and writer Esther Freud), Suzy Boyt (5 children: Ali, Rose Boyt, Isobel, and Susie Boyt), and Margaret McAdam (2 children). This article deals with The Daily Telegraph in Britain, see The Daily Telegraph (Australia) for the Australian publication The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. ... September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Lorna Garman Wishart (1916 - 2000) was the youngest of the seven daughters (and two sons) of Walter and Margaret Garman, an eccentric Victorian doctor, lead notoriously high profile lives within mid 20th century artistic circles. ... Kathleen Kitty Garman (born 1926), also known as Kathleen Epstein, is the daughter of Kathleen Garman and Jacob Epstein, who married some time after her birth. ... The Garman Sisters The seven daughters (and two sons) of Walter and Margaret Garman, an eccentric Victorian doctor, lead notoriously high profile lives within mid 20th century artistic circles. ... This article lacks information on the importance of the subject matter. ... Jacquetta Jean Frederica Lampson (b. ... Bella Freud (born April 17, 1961 in London, England) is a London-based fashion designer with a number of celebrity clients. ... Esther Freud is a British novelist. ...

His painting After Cezanne, which is notable because of its unusual shape, was bought by the National Gallery of Australia for $7.4 million. National Gallery of Australia The National Gallery of Australia is a major art gallery (museum) in Canberra, Australia. ...

After Cézanne, 1999 - 2000, National Gallery of Australia.

Lucian Freud served as a visiting tutor at the Slade School of Fine Art (1949-54), University College, London. Image File history File links Freud,_After_Cézanne. ... Image File history File links Freud,_After_Cézanne. ... National Gallery of Australia The National Gallery of Australia is a major art gallery (museum) in Canberra, Australia. ...

Although internationally acknowledged as one of the most important artists working today, there have been few opportunities to see Lucian Freud's paintings and etchings in Britain. In 1996, Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal mounted a major exhibition of 27 paintings and thirteen etchings, covering the whole period of Freud's working life to date. This was followed most notably by a large retrospective at Tate Britain in 2002. For the 1832-1918 Parliamentary constituency, see Kendal (UK Parliament constituency). ... Tate Britain is a part of the Tate Gallery in Britain, along with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. ...

During a period from May 2000 to December 2001, Freud painted Queen Elizabeth II. He was criticised by leading newspapers like The Sun for painting the Queen in an unflattering way (his usual style), giving her a 5 o'clock shadow. Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of sixteen sovereign states, holding each crown and title equally. ... Look up sun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

References

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Further reading

• William Feaver, Lucian Freud, Tate, 2002. ISBN 0-8109-6267-5
• Lawrence Gowing, Lucian Freud, Thames & Hudson, 1982. ISBN 0-500-09154-4
• Robert Hughes, Lucian Freud, Thames & Hudson, revised edition, 1997. ISBN 0-500-27535-1
• William Feaver, Lucian Freud: Paintings and Etchings, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, 1996. ISBN 0-9503335-7-3

External links

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Lucian Freud

• WebMuseum: Lucian Freud - features images of a selection from Freud's work
• Lucian Freud (ArtChive) – includes quotes from the biography by Lawrence Gowing, as well as images of additional artistic works
• 2002 exhibition at Tate Britain including a chronology
• Interior at Paddington (1951), Freud's portrait of his friend, Harry Diamond
• BBC Four Radio Interview Lucian Freud talks to William Feaver on 7 February 1988
• Lucian Freud en Psikeba -Artículo en español-
• Lucien Freud; La Escuela de Londres o "Pintura del desastre" |In Psikeba
• Abbot Hall Exhibition 1996
• Abbot Hall Exhibition Catalogue 1996
• Ten Dreams Galleries
• Essay by Kelly Grovier on Lucien Freud in The Observer 2006
• Lucian Freud Controversy 05/12/06