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Lucian Freud
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British painter and engraver (1922-2011)
OverviewAI-generated
Lucian Michael Freud was a British and German painter, illustrator, printmaker, and draftsperson associated with the Expressionism movement. Born in Berlin in 1922, he was the son of Ernst L. Freud and the sibling of Clement Freud. He received his education at Bryanston School and Goldsmiths, University of London. Freud was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and he received the Order of Merit.
His notable work includes *Benefits Supervisor Sleeping*. He is the father of Jane McAdam Freud, Bella Freud, and Esther Freud. Freud died in London in 2011 and was buried at Highgate Cemetery.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 31
Top works
- Lucian Freud
- Friends and Relations
- Rushian Furoido Ten
- Lucian Freud und das Tier
- Lucian Freud Nudes
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting
Known for
- Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait — Himself2019
- Freud's Naked Truths — Himself (archive footage)2012
- Lucian Freud: Painted Life — Himself2012
- Lucian Freud: Portraits — Himself2004
- Lucian Freud — Self1988
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4
- Total plays
- 10
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Restoring the Density-Gradient Expansion for Exchange in Solids and Surfaces
· 2008 · cited 11,225x
- Random forest in remote sensing: A review of applications and future directions
· 2016 · cited 6,348x
- Cellulose Nanocrystals: Chemistry, Self-Assembly, and Applications
· 2010 · cited 5,432x
- The 2015 World Health Organization Classification of Lung Tumors
· 2015 · cited 3,742x
- Incidence of Adverse Events and Negligence in Hospitalized Patients
· 1991 · cited 3,251x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “I paint people not because of what they are like... but how they happen to be.”
- “I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures. I ignored the fact that art, after all, derives from art. Now I realize that this is the case.”
- “My colour has no symbolic function whatever. I don't want any colour to be noticeable. I want the colour to be the colour of life, so that you would notice it as being irregular if it changed. I don't want it to operate in the modernist sense as colour, something independent. I don't want people to say, "Oh, what was that red or that blue picture of yours, I've forgotten what it was."”
- “When I look at a body I know it gives me choices of what to put in a painting; what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.”
- “I am only interested in painting the actual person; in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.”
- “URGENT SUBTLE CONCISE ROBUST”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Lucian Michael Freud , ( 1922-12-08 ) 8 December 1922, Berlin , Brandenburg , Prussia , Germany
- Died
- 20 July 2011 (2011-07-20) (aged 88), London, England
- Citizenship
- Germany (1933-1938), British (from 1938)
- Education
- Central School of Art East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing Goldsmiths' College
- Notable work
- Cedric Morris (1940) Portrait of Kitty (1948–49) Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (1995)
- Spouses
- Kathleen Epstein ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1948 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1952 ) Lady Caroline Blackwood ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1952 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1959 )
- Children
- Various, including Annie , Esther , and Bella
- Father
- Ernst L. Freud
- Relatives
- Freud family
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Michael
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Berlin
- Place of death
- London
- Spouse
- Caroline Blackwood
- Father
- Ernst L. Freud
- Occupation
- artist
- Employer
- Slade School of Fine Art
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- British English
- Award
- Order of Merit
- Notable work
- Benefits Supervisor Sleeping
- Family
- Freud family
- Field of work
- portrait painting
- Genre
- still life
- Image
- LucienFreud.jpg
- Work location
- London
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- Commons category
- Lucian Freud
- date of birth
- 1922-12-08
- date of death
- 2011-07-20
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- name in native language
- Lucian Freud
- birth name
- Lucian Michael Freud
- Commons Creator page
- Lucian Freud
- place of burial
- Highgate Cemetery
- copyright representative
- Lucian Freud
- unmarried partner
- Celia Paul
- ethnic group
- English people
- P8168
- Châtillon
- relative
- Martha Bernays
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Encyclopedic overview
Lucian Michael Freud (/frɔɪd/; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, who is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists.
His early career as a painter was influenced by surrealism, and afterwards by expressionism, but by the early 1950s his often stark and alienated paintings tended towards realism. Freud was an intensely private and guarded man, and his paintings, completed over a 60-year career, are mostly of friends and family. They are generally sombre and thickly impastoed, often set in unsettling interiors and urban landscapes. The works are noted for their psychological penetration and often discomfiting examination of the relationship between artist and model. Freud worked from life studies and was known for asking for extended and punishing sittings from his models.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lucian Freud” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.