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Also known as Lucien Freud, Lusyan Froid

British painter and engraver (1922-2011)

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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

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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

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Type
Group

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Listeners
4
Total plays
10

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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

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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
Occupation
artist
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
British English
Field of work
portrait painting
Image
LucienFreud.jpg
Work location
London
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Lucian Freud
date of birth
1922-12-08
date of death
2011-07-20
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
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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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