Artist presentation

1. Lucian Freud

3. • Lucian Freud was born in Germany and was
the grandson of Sigmund Freud.
• Him and his family fled Germany during the
rise of Nazism, moving to England.

4. • Freud spent most of his career in Paddington,
London, an inner-city area that greatly
reflected Freud's often sombre and
melancholic works of art.
• In the start of his career, he was principally
interested in drawing

9. • In 1943, the poet and editor Meary James
Thurairajah Tambimuttu, commissioned Freud
to illustrate a book of poems called “The Glass
Tower.”

12. • Freud's early paintings, are often associated
with German Expressionism, and surrealism
because of his depiction of people, plants and
animals in unusual context.
• From the 1950s, he began to work in
portraiture, often nudes. By the middle of the
decade he developed a much more free style,
using large brushes, with an intense emphasis
of the texture and color of flesh.

18. • Freud's subjects, were often the people in his
life; friends, family, fellow painters, lovers, and
children. He said, "The subject matter is
autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and
memory and sensuality and involvement.”

21. • Freud began a painting by first drawing in
charcoal on the canvas. He then applied paint
to a small area of the canvas, and gradually
worked outward from that point. For new
models, he would start with the head as a
means of "getting to know" the person, then
painted the rest of the figure, eventually
returning to the head as he gained more
comprehension of the model.

22. • Freud said, ”I paint people, not because of
what they are like, not exactly in spite of what
they are like, but how they happen to be.”
• He has painted fellow artist Francis Bacon, and
even Kate Moss.

26. • Freud is rumored to have fathered as many as
forty children. Fourteen children have been
identified, two from Freud's first marriage and
12 by various mistresses.

29. • Freud died in London on July 20, 2011