Artist: Lucian Freud (1922 - )
Nationality: German
Movement: Realism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Grandson of famous psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud, Lucian was Berlin in 1922. The Jewish Freud family left Germany in the 1930’s and moved to London in order to escape the looming presence of the Nazis. After a brief service in the Navy, Freud became an artist and studied under Cedric Morris. Another strong influence in his artwork was Ingres, as Freud used to copy the works of the painter. Lucian’s early work contained Surrealist elements, however his later works tended to favor a more realistic approach to nude portraits.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (8)
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Lucian Freud Man Posing Etching 1985
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Lucian Freud Painter's Mother in Bed Charcoal on wove paper 1983
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Lucian Freud - Drawing after Watteau 1983 ink Arkansas Arts Center British
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Leonard Baskin Quotation from Freud - from the Portfolio Castle Street Dogs Wood engraving 1959
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Jacques Callot St.Luke, Evangelist, October 18; St.Lucian,Bishop and Martyr, October 19; St. Irene, Virgin and Martyr , October 20; St.Hilarion, Hermit, October 21; ninety-fourth plate from the book, Les IMAGES DE TOUS/LES SAINCTS ET SAINTES /DE L*ANN
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Adolescent I
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Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, 1658 Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594-1665)Oil on canvas; 46
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Nude, Campden Hill, London, April 1949 Bill Brandt (British, born Germany, 1904-1983)Gelatin silver print; 24.1

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Seattle Art Museum: Lucian Freud: Etchings from the PaineWebber Art Collection
Although he had not made any prints since the late 1940s, he etched a series of portrait heads for a deluxe edition of a monograph about his art, published in 1982. Almost all of Freuds etchings made since 1982 will be on view. There are twen...
Carnegie Museum of Art: Lucian Freud Etchings from the Paine Webber Art Collection
The forty-two etchings in this exhibition, which was organized by The Yale Center for British Art, provide an almost complete representation of his work since that time. ...
The Jewish Museum: Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture
Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture is composed of three major sections. Section One: Formative Years begins in late nineteenth-century Vienna, the milieu of Freuds early professional ...
Neuberger Museum of Art: The School of London and Their Friends: The Mel and Elaine Merians Collection
The movement emerged in the 1940s when Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud rebelled against generally accepted art world norms by centering their interest on ...
Christie's: PRINTS CHARMING: 20th Century Prints
Two etchings printed with tone by Lucien Freud will be on offer in the British section of the sale, Man Resting (1988) may fetch up to £4,000 while Two men in the Studio (1989) carries an estimate of £1,000-1,200. An ...
Zg Gallery: Sprawled Upside Down! Funny Pictures by Gregory Jacobsen
Gregory Jacobsen’s paintings on panel and works on paper will be exhibited together in his first solo exhibition at Zg Gallery. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  Gregory Jacobsen is also a performance artist with...
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21 Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus: Rodney Graham: A 5 Part Exhibition
The exhibition will place the earlier, sometimes spectacular works in context with the older works, in order to illustrate the conceptual dimension and depth of his works. The exhibition was organised in cooperation with Whitechapel Art ...
Royal College of Art: The 20th Century British Art Fair
It is the only fair to cover British art from 1900 to the present day and for five days, under one roof, art lovers can enjoy and marvel at the talent and diversity of painting, sculpture, photography and ceramics which incorporate 20th Century Briti...
Brooklyn Museum of Art: SENSATION: Young British Artists From the Saatchi Collection
Among the forty two artists represented is Damien Hirst, perhaps Britains best-known artist of this generation, who is now recognized throughout the world for his work comprising sections of animals, such as sharks, lambs, and cows, preserved and ...
JHB CIVIC GALLERY: STEPHAN ERASMUS: the god prosthetic
The work takes a look at (in)human evolution, by drawing on science, religion and science fiction. The work becomes important in modern society, if one looks at the vital role that technology plays in our world. For instance, the ability t...
Yale Center for British Art: The School of London and their Friends: The Collection of Elaine and Melvin Merians
The term School of London was coined by American-born painter Ronald Kitaj in order to draw attention to the extraordinary range and power he found in contemporary British art after the Second World War. The expression called attention to a common...
National Gallery: Encounters: NEW art from OLD
The National Gallery has always been a resource for artists, and the Collection offers many examples of how artists in other times have wrestled with traditi...
DFN Gallery: Rick Finkelstein: Without Wings, New Drawings and Animation
The film’s animation consists of single drawings sequentially drawn and erased, and includes childlike cutouts moving against a static backdrop.  Each drawing represents a distilled moment in the animated story, and together they allow the dream-l...
Changing Room: Dirk Bell, Kate Davis, Alan Michael
he exhibition brings together new work by three artists, from Glasgow and Berlin. It centres on their use of drawing and mixed media to make work with multiple meanings around notions of memory, representation, beauty and layering of images. Di...
Colville Place Gallery: Marty St James: Betweeness
A number of my previous performance and video art works were to do with a sense of staticness and in contrast my static image print works are often to do with movement. This allows me an artistic freedom within the form and content. Marty St....
Tate Gallery, Liverpool: Figurative Art at the End of the Century
Many of these works have only just been acquired by the Tate and are on show in Liverpool for the first time. Together, they create a powerful spectacle and raise issues ...
Modern Museum: Moderna Museet Projekt: Claire Barclay
Physical intimacy is palpable in Claire Barclay's art as is ambiguity; her objects contain elements of cleaning utensils and sports articles as well as instruments of torture and sexual toys. The feeling of recognition becomes rapidly mixed w...
Joan Miró Foundation: Klee, Tanguy, Miró. Three approaches to landscape
Paul Klee (München-Buchsee, Berne, 1879 – Locarno, 1940) stands as a lone figure in the panorama of twentieth-century painting. A member of the Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter, he was also a teacher at the Bauhaus. In the 1920s he began to t...
Centre of Attention: Gypsies, Jews, Blacks and Queers and other free radicals (Nu Elementz in Performance Art at Notting Hill Arts Club)

I want some of your attention; give it to me. Chrisse Hynde. This work is new and valuable: in dealing with culture, with desire, with Being, with incongruity, with misplaced, mis-shaped, look at me, look what I done, mentality, sensuality: broken...
National Palace Museum: Birth of a New Century: Images of Children in Western Art
Beginning with the Enlightenment in the late eighteenth century, the nature of children was starting to take shape as distinct from that of adults. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one advocate of educational reform. ...
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington: Short Stories - Vik Muniz: Reparte
Beginning in advertising and experiment-ing with sculptural form on the side, Muniz gradually became increasingly interested in...
Museum of Contemporary Art, LA and the Geffen Contemporary: David Hockney Retrospective: Photoworks
“David’s outstanding work has inspired thousands worldwide and has captured the essence of Southern California,” said Jeremy Strick, MOCA director. “We are delighted to host this incredible show of photographic works which showcases his contin...
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art: The Nude in Contemporary Art The Nude in Contemporary Art
According to Harry Philbrick, the chief curator, The exhibition gives us an opportunity to see how artists from America, Europe, and Japan - some young, some old - confront one of the greatest challenges in art: depicting the nude. The work in the ...
Museum of Modern Art: Rober Storr Promoted to Senior Curator at the MOMA
The title of Senior Curator indicates exceptional merit, and is among the highest distinctions this Museum can offer, remarked Mr. Lowry. This promotion recognizes Robert Storrs tremendous contributions, both as an exhibition organizer, a...
Freight and Volume: Peter Gallo: Goodbye Picasso
In the tradition of punk, neo-punk, Lettrism and Situationism, Gallo steals the words and images of others for his own ends; snippets from Roland Barthes, Freud, Mondrian, Tony Shafrazis famous vandalisation of Guernica (Kill All Lies), and queer ...
Hasselblad Center: Portraits as Still Lifes: the Photographs of Roger Ballen
Ballens protagonists are social outsiders. Unbelted by beauty, they, like their surroundings, often exhibit visible traces of decay and the passage of time. They are characters in the artists mini-dramas, in which objects and animals have a ...
Tate Modern: Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis
The cities and periods are: Paris 1910s: The French capital became the centre of an international avant-garde, following the explosion of the Fauves onto the Parisian art scene in 1905. Paris during ...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Degas to Picasso: Painters, Sculptors and the Camera
Dating from roughly 1885 to 1915, the 364 paintings, drawings, sculptures and photographs on view demonstrate the pervasive and diverse role of photography in the work and working processes of these significant artists. The works...
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: New Work by Cornelia Parker
This new as yet untitled work will be installed—for the first and likely the last time—with her acclaimed Mass (Colder Darker Matter) (1997), a suspended, ethereal form of charcoal remnants from a Texas white congregation church struck by lightnin...
Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (FIAC), Paris Expo: 29th Annual Modern and Contemporary Art Fair Presents 170 Galleries from 23 Countries
This year’s fair includes a rigorous selection of international galleries, focusing on individual and thematic shows, new and previously unseen works, and site-specific installations. The fair will be divided into five sections: Solo Shows; Group ...

Further Artwork and Information:

Lucian Freud Online
WebMuseum: Freud, Lucian
Tate Britain | Lucian Freud
Amazon.com: Books: Lucian Freud
LUCIAN FREUD Bio
Freuds Body Ego | Lucian Freud & William Kentridge
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Lucian Freud- After Cezanne
Amazon.com: Books: Lucian Freud
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Arts | Lucian Freud: In pictures

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