“Sometimes I keep on drawing in my sleep. Before, I was hardly conscious of my dreams, but I now find myself working things out, thinking I should be doing this with that.”
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Frank Helmut Auerbach was a German-born British painter. Born in Germany to Jewish parents, he became a naturalised British subject in 1947. He is considered one of the leading names in the School of London, with fellow artists Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, both of whom were early supporters of his work.
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culture · German-born British painter (1931–2024) · painter · draftsperson · graphic designer · artist · also Frank Auerbach, Frank Helmut Auerbach, Auerbach
Born 29 April 1931 · Died 11 November 2024 · Q215919
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“Sometimes I keep on drawing in my sleep. Before, I was hardly conscious of my dreams, but I now find myself working things out, thinking I should be doing this with that.”
“marvellous landscape with precipice and mountain and crags, full of drama”
“I don’t chat. I’m very well aware of the enormous sacrifice my saintly sitters are making when they come to sit for me. But if I feel I want to go next door for 20 minutes, to see the thing with a fresh eye on my return, I can do that.”
“I felt I was breaking the sound barrier. I was crossing through and making something new.”
“It always comes with a sense of loss, and makes you so conscious of the inexorable passage of time.”
“The country was reduced to rubble, and people were scavengers in the ruins - the same people who were”
“In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I”
“he returned from the first world war mentally disturbed after electric shock therapy. This is before he knew. I find that frightful: the incapacity to know what”
“is perhaps not the highest form of mental activity; it”
“If you know in the generation before you that your parents, your uncles and aunts were tacit accom plices, it”
“effects political persecution produces in people 50 years down the line, and the complicated workings of remembering and forgetting that go with that”
The Washington Post: Frank Auerbach looked again and again. His paintings unlocked inner life.
The New Yorker: Frank Auerbach’s Raw Truths
New York Post: Painter Frank Auerbach, who fled the Nazis and became a major artist, dies at 93
Hyperallergic: Painter Frank Auerbach Dies at 93
Los Angeles Times: Frank Auerbach, painter who fled Nazi Germany and became a major artist, dies at 93
WFMZ-TV: Painter Frank Auerbach, contemporary of Freud and Bacon, dies at 93
Yahoo: Frank Auerbach: ‘Admiring oneself is such a waste of energy’
Died 2024-11-11.
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Hyperallergic: Frank Auerbach Wrests Light From the Darkness
Observer: A Show of Frank Auerbach’s Charcoal Portraits Illustrates the Start of a Steadfast Career
Yahoo: Frank Auerbach, The Charcoal Heads: there’s a raw, vital power behind these haunted faces
The exhibition Frank Auerbach
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Auerbach died in London on 11 November 2024, at the age of 93.
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This piece was among many put up for auction in November 2016, where it was sold for £3
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Had another solo show at the Courtauld Institute of Art
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“If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you.”
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Stated: "If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you
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Made direct reference to the gallery's collection of paintings by Rembrandt, Titian and Rubens
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Represented Britain in the Venice Biennale, sharing the Golden Lion with Sigmar Polke
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Alongside Michael Andrews, Francis Bacon, William Coldstream, Lucian Freud, Patrick George, Leon Kossoff and Euan Uglow; the Kunstverein in 1986; the Van Gogh Museum in 1989; Marlborough Graphics in 1990; the Yale Center
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Was the subject of a major retrospective exhibition at the Hayward Gallery and was included in the exhibition A New Spirit in Painting at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1981
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In 1958, their only child, Jacob "Jake" Auerbach, was born.
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Their only child, Jacob "Jake" Auerbach, was born
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Followed by further solo shows there between 1959 and 1963
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That: "The technique is so fantastically obtrusive that it is some time before one penetrates to the intentions that should justify this grotesque method
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Began teaching in secondary schools, but he quickly moved into the visiting tutor circuit at numerous art schools, including Bromley, Sidcup and the Slade School
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Studied at Royal College of Art (1952–1955).
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Studied at Saint Martin's School of Art (1948–1952).
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“Then you find out it was the same month when Kafka”
One of six such children sponsored by British writer Iris Origo
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Born 1931-04-29.
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