Lucian Freud
- Introduction
- Lucian Michael Freud, OM CH (; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish architect Ernst L. Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud. Freud got his first name "Lucian" from his mother in memory of the ancient writer Lucian of Samosata. His family moved to England in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism. From 1942 to 1943 he attended Goldsmiths College, London. He served at sea with the British Merchant Navy during the Second World War. His early career as a painter was influenced by surrealism, 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 discomforting 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.
- Wikidata
- Q154594
- Introduction
- Grandchild of Sigmund Freud and child of Ernst Freud. A 1987 exhibition at the Hirshorn raised his stature in the United States. In 1993 the the Metropolitan Museum of Art mounted a retrospective of his work.
- Nationalities
- British, English, German
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Portraitist, Painter
- Names
- Lucian Freud, Lusyan Froid
- Ulan
- 500116243
Exhibitions
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Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern
Mar 17–Jun 15, 2019
MoMA
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Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Apr 22, 2009–Jan 4, 2010
MoMA
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Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Apr 22, 2009–Jan 4, 2010
MoMA
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Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities
Jul 30–Nov 10, 2008
MoMA
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Lucian Freud: The Painter’s Etchings
Dec 16, 2007–Mar 10, 2008
MoMA
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Lucian Freud has
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Lucian Freud Woman with a Daffodil summer 1945
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Lucian Freud Girl with Leaves 1948
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Lucian Freud Portrait of a Woman 1949
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Lucian Freud Dead Monkey 1950
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Lucian Freud Untitled 1974
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Lucian Freud Head of a Girl I 1982
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Lucian Freud Bella 1982
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Lucian Freud Man Posing 1985, published 1986
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Lucian Freud Head of a Man 1986
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Lucian Freud Girl Sitting 1987
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Lucian Freud Lord Goodman in His Yellow Pyjamas 1987
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Lucian Freud Head and Shoulders of a Girl 1990
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Lucian Freud Four Figures 1991
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Lucian Freud Large Head 1993
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Lucian Freud Head of Leigh 1993
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Lucian Freud Woman Sleeping 1995
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Lucian Freud Woman with an Arm Tattoo 1996
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Lucian Freud Head of an Irishman 1999
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Lucian Freud Head of an Irish Man 1999
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Lucian Freud Solicitor's Head 2003
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