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Lucian Freud, Order of Merit|OM, Order of the
Companions of Honour|CH (born December 8, 1922) is
a United Kingdom|British painter and printmaker.

Freud, the grandson of Sigmund Freud and brother
of Clement Freud, was born in Berlin, Germany, in
1922. Freud and his family emigrated to the UK in
1933, the artist gaining British citizenship in
1939. During this period he attended Dartington
Hall School in Totnes, Devon, and then Bryanston
School.

Freud studied briefly at the Central School of Art
in London then, with greater success, at Cedric
Morris's East Anglian School of Painting and
Drawing in Dedham. Thereafter, he served as a
merchant seaman in an Atlantic convoy in 1941
before being invalided out of service in 1942.
Freud's first solo exhibition, at the Lefevre
Gallery in 1944, featured the now celebrated The
Painter's Room 1944. In the summer of 1946, he
travelled to Paris before continuing to Italy for
several months. Since then he has lived and worked
in London.

Freud's early paintings are often associated with
surrealism and depict people and plants in unusual
juxtapositions. These works are usually painted
with quite thin paint, but from the 1950s he began
to paint portraits, often nudes, to the almost
complete exclusion of everything else, and began
to use a thicker impasto. The colours in these
paintings are typically muted.

Often Freud's portraits just depict the sitter,
sometimes sprawled naked on the floor or on a bed,
but sometimes the sitter is juxtaposed with some
other thing, as in Naked Girl with Egg (1980-81)
and Naked Man with Rat (1977).

Freud's subjects are often the people in his life;
friends, family, fellow painters, lovers,
children. To quote the artist: "The subject matter
is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and
memory and sensuality and involvement, really."

"I paint people," Freud has said, "not because of
what they are like, not exactly in spite of what
they are like, but how they happen to be."

Freud has painted a number of fellow artists,
including Frank Auerbach and Francis Bacon
(painter)|Francis Bacon.  He produced a series of
portraits of the performance artist Leigh Bowery,
and also painted Henrietta Moraes, a muse to many
Soho artists.

Freud is one of the best known British artists
working in a traditional representational style.
He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1989.

According to the Sunday Telegraph of September 1,
2002, he is rumoured to have up to 40 illegitimate
children, acknowledging them when they have become
adults.
He married Kathleen Epstein in 1948. He married
writer Caroline Blackwood in 1957. He has children
by Jacquetta Lampson, daughter of the first Baron
Killearn, and by Bernardine Coverley (one of whom
is writer Esther Freud), Suzy Boyt, and Margaret
McAdam.

==Further reading==
*William Feaver, Lucian Freud, Tate, 2002. ISBN
0810962675
*Lawrence Gowing, Lucian Freud, Thames & Hudson,
1982. ISBN 0500091544
*Robert Hughes, Lucian Freud, Thames & Hudson,
revised edition, 1997. ISBN 0500275351

==External links==
*http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/freud/
WebMuseum: Lucian Freud - features images of a
selection from Freud's work
*http://www.artchive.com/artchive/F/freud.html
Lucian Freud (ArtChive) - includes quotes from the
biography by Lawrence Gowing, as well as images of
additional artistic works
*http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/freud/
2002 exhibition at Tate Britain including a
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/freud/c
hronology.htm chonology
*http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collect
ions/20c/Freud.asp Interior at Paddington (1951),
Freud's portrait of his friend, Harry Diamond