Lucian freud biography artist outline
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Lucian Freud 1922-2011
Painter and draughtsman Lucian Freud was born into a Jewish family in Berlin, Germany on 8 December 1922, the son of architect Ernst Freud and grandson of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Following Hitler's accession to Chancellorship in 1933, the family moved to Britain and Freud was educated at Dartington Hall in Devon (1933–36) and Bryanston School. He was naturalised in 1939. He briefly attended the Central School of Arts and Crafts (1938–39), then the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing (1939–42), run by Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines.
Freud’s first solo exhibition was held at Alex Reid and Lefevre Gallery in November 1944, followed by a joint exhibition with John Craxton at the London Gallery in 1947. Following a further solo exhibition at the Hanover Gallery in 1950, Freud won the Arts Council prize at the Festival of Britain for Interior at Paddington in 1951. In 1954 he shared the British Pavilion at the Venice
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The Lives of Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud spoke about painting, the art world and his life and loves to his confidante and frequent collaborator William Feaver on the phone most weeks for many years. Feaver wrote down their conversations immediately and typed up his hand-written konto the next day, leaving him with hundreds of hours of transcribed conversations after Freud’s death. Having been renowned for thwarting any attempts by people to write his biography, at one-point Freud gave Feaver his blessing to be his biographer and hailed the project as ‘the first funny art book’.
Feaver’s two-volume biography has been much praised. Laura Freeman described it in The Times as ‘irresistible… Freud and Feaver seize you bygd the elbows, bundle you into a Bentley, haul you round the nightclubs, feed you oysters, irländsk öl and amphetamines and beställning you Russian tea and eggs the next morning. I didn’t know whether I’d been roughed up or ravished. As lives of artists go, this is up there wi
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Lucian Freud. A Narrative of Portraiture
Estere Kajema
19/10/2015
Some know him as a grandson of Sigmund Freud, some as a great gigolo. Famously called by The Financial Times as “one of the greatest painters in history”, Lucian Freud is undoubtedly one of the most excellent and well-known British artists. He is a creator who worked in many different techniques, using various styles and methods – most famously pencil drawings and oil paintings of human bodies. Freud particularly enjoyed painting portraits. He said that anything could be a portrait and that everything deserved to have a portrait, because even furniture has its own personal biography.
Lucian Freud was born in Berlin in 1922. His wealthy Austrian-Jewish family had deep and famous roots, and Freud’s father was Sigmund Freud’s younger son. In 1933, the family left Nazi Germany to seek safety in England. Lucian Freud started his education in art high school, and continued his education at