Lucian Freud

Also known as Lucien Freud, Lusyan Froid

British painter and engraver (1922-2011)

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Lucian Freud, born Lucian Michael Freud in Berlin in 1922, was a painter, illustrator, printmaker, and draftsperson. He was educated at Bryanston School and Goldsmiths, University of London. Freud held citizenship in the United Kingdom and Germany and was associated with the Expressionism movement. His artistic output included portraits, genre art, landscape paintings, and animal art. One of his notable works is *Benefits Supervisor Sleeping*.

Freud was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, where he was recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. He received the Order of Merit and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was married to Caroline Blackwood and had three children: Jane McAdam Freud, Bella Freud, and Esther Freud. His father was Ernst L. Freud, and his sibling was Clement Freud. Freud died in London in 2011 and was buried at Highgate Cemetery.

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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

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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

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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.

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