Frank Auerbach was born in Berlin in 1931. His parents sent him to England from Germany to avoid persecution by the Nazi regime. Auerbach attended St. Martin's School of Art from 1948 to 1952 and the Royal College of Art from 1952 to 1955. He is often associated with the artists of the School of London, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Leon Kossoff.
Auerbach's work is primarily figurative lying in a realm somewhere between pure portraiture and narrative, but with a very expressive use of (showing 500 of 871 characters). |
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