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Lucian Michael Freud (; 8 December 1922 β 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English 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, when he was 10 years old, to escape the rise of Nazism. He became a British naturalized citizen in 1939. 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.
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Birthday1922-12-08
Deathday2011-07-20 (88 years old)
Birth NameLucian Michael Freud
Birth PlaceBerlin, Germany
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RelationshipsKitty Garman (1948-07-03 - 1952-01-01), Caroline Blackwood (1953-12-09 - 1959-01-01)
ChildrenAnnabel Freud, Frank Paul, David McAdam Freud, Lucy Freud, Isabel Boyt, Rose Boyt, Alexander Boyt, Francis Eliot, Annie Freud, Paul Freud, Susie Boyt, Jane McAdam Freud, Bella Freud, Esther Freud
FatherErnst L. Freud
MotherLucie Brasch
SiblingsClement Freud, Stephen Gabriel Freud
RelativesSigmund Freud, Martha Bernays
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
AwardsFellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Companion of Honour, Rubenspreis, Order of Merit
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