FIGURATIVE PAINTINGS
Lucian Freud : drawings and paintings
Lucian Freud : drawings and paintings
 
 
  
 
  
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Lucian Freud was born in Berlin, Germany in 1922. He is the grandson of Sigmund Freud. Freud and his family moved to the U.K. in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism, and gained British citizenship in 1939. Freud briefly studied at the Central School of Art in London then, with greater success, at Cedric Morris' East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Dedham, and also at Goldsmiths College - University of London from 1942-3. Freud's early paintings are often associated with surrealism and depict people and plants in unusual juxtapositions. Freud's subjects are often the people in his life; friends, family, fellow painters, lovers, children. To quote the artist: "The subject matter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really. I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be." Freud has painted a number of fellow artists, including Frank Auerbach and Francis Bacon. He produced a series of portraits of the performance artist Leigh Bowery, and also painted Henrietta Moraes, a muse to many Soho artists. Freud is one of the best known British artists working in a traditional representational style. Lucian Freud served as a visiting tutor at the Slade School of Fine Art (1949-54), University College, London.Freud's works sometimes involve the same person and similar compositions, since his works are about getting to know the subject, prompting him to use the same person more than once when he feels there is more he can learn from him or her physically, mentally, or emotionally.
