Discover etcher, graphic artist, illustrator Lucian Freud

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: Freud, Lucien

Qualifications: etcher, graphic artist, illustrator, painter, watercolorist, copyist, pastelist, draftsperson, pen artist, academy lecturer

Nationality/school: German, English
in 1939 national to Brit

Born: Berlin 1922-12-08

Deceased: London (England) 2011-07-20
NRC Handelsblad, 22 juli 2011

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: youngest son of the architect Ernst Freud, grandson of the psychologist Sigmund Freud

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

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Biographical information

Education: Central School of Arts and Crafts Douglas Cockerell (Londen)

1938 (Central School)
East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing (Dedham)

1939-1941 and then a visit now and then (Dedham)

Active in

Londen (Engeland) 1933 - 1939
short study at the Central School of Arts and Crafts
Dedham (Essex) 1939 - 1942
study at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing under Cedric Morris; three months in service of the army (1941)
Liverpool (Engeland) 1942
Paddington (Londen) 1943 - 1973
1944: first solo exhibition; 1949-1954: guest lecturer at the Slade School of Art
Parijs 1946
stay of two months
Poros (eiland) 1946
five-month stay with the artist John Craxton
Holland Park (Londen) 1973 - 2011
lived and worked from 1973 in Holland park, a neighborhood in London
Den Haag (stad)
Place cited: Den Haag (AKLONLINE April 2018)

Teacher at academy/university: Slade School of Fine Art, University College (London)
1949-1954

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Morris, Cedric
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Vicari, Andrew

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: animal painting (genre), genre, landscape (genre), nude figure, portrait, self-portrait, still life

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 38 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Vollmer 1953-1962 , vol. 5 (1961), p. 495
Bénézit 1976 , vol. 4, p. 519
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 104
Buckman 1998
Bénézit 1999
Saur 1992- , vol. 44 (2005), p. 473

St. d'Alessandro, 'Lucien Freud, ''Sunny Morning-Eight Legs'' ', The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 29 (2002) nr. 2, p. 88-89
M. Gayford, 'Face Off. Seeing yourself through the eyes of Lucian Freud', in: Modern Painters, dl. 17, nr. 3, autumn 2004, p. 96-99
P. Ordovás, 'Freud's Red Haired Man. An intense study of an individual', in: Christie's Magazine, January/February 2005, p. 38-39
M. Gayford, 'It's me looking at him looking at me', in: Apollo dl. CLXII, nr. 522, August 2005, p. 28-33
J. van der Veer, 'Lucian Freud in Venetië', Kunstblad Origine, 13/4 (2005), p. 39-41
M. Gayford, 'Freud's Animals', Apollo, november 2006, p. 70-71
Lampert 2007 (zie RKDlibrary), p. 168-169
M. Vanbaelinghem, 'L'école de Londres, art et histoire de l'art britanniques à la fin du XXe siècle', Perspective 2007, p. 281-304

NRC Handelsblad, 22 juli 2011
AKLONLINE (April 2018), as: Freud, Lucian; Freud, Lucian Michael

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