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Lucian Freud
British painter and engraver (1922-2011)
Lucian Michael FreudOM CH[1] (; 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 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, and afterwards by expressionism, but by the early 1950s his often stark and alienated paintings tended towards realism.[2] Freud was an intensely private and guarded man, and his paintings, completed over a 60-year career, are mostly of friends and family. Th
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Lucian Freud
Lucian Michael Freud (; 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 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, and afterwards by expressionism, 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
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Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud, 2005 | |
| Data i miejsce urodzenia | 8 grudnia 1922 |
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| Data i miejsce śmierci | 20 lipca 2011 |
| Język | niemiecki, angielski |
| Dziedzina sztuki | malarstwo |
| Epoka | XX, XXI w. |
Lucian Freud (ur. 8 grudnia1922 w Berlinie, zm. 20 lipca2011 w Londynie)[1] – brytyjski malarz, pochodzenia żydowskiego[2]; wnuk Sigmunda Freuda.
Życiorys
[edytuj | edytuj kod]Urodził się jako syn Ernesta Freuda i Lucie Brasch. Freud wraz z rodziną emigrował z Niemiec do Wielkiej Brytanii w 1931[3]. Brytyjskie obywatelstwo uzyskał w 1939. Uczęszczał do kilku szkół artystycznych. Ożenił się w 1948 z Kathleen Epstein, później kolejno w 1957 z Caroline Blackwood i Jane Willoughby. Jedną z jego córek jest Esther Freud, pisarka brytyjska.
Oficjalnie miał 14 dzieci, w tym dwoje z pierwszą żoną, pozostałe z kochankami[4].
Styl
[edytuj | edytuj kod]W swoich obrazach eksperymentował z surrealizmem, był też luźno związany z ruchem neoromantycznym, ostatecznie ustalił jednak swoją tożsamość artystyczną jako skrupulat
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