Published on Feb 12, 2017
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Michael Freud (8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a German-born
British painter and draftsman, specialising in figurative art, and is
known as one of the foremost 20th-century portraitists.
Michael Freud (8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a German-born
British painter and draftsman, specialising in figurative art, and is
known as one of the foremost 20th-century portraitists.
He was born
in Berlin, the son of a Jewish architect and the grandson of Sigmund
Freud. His family moved to Britain in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism.
From 1942-43 he attended Goldsmiths College, London. He enlisted in the
Merchant Navy during World War II.
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 somber and
thickly impastoed, often set in unsettling interiors and city scapes.
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.
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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