Reclining Model in the Studio II
Frank Helmut Auerbach is a German-born British painter. Auerbach was born in Berlin. His parents sent him to England in 1939 to escape the Nazis as part of the Kindertransport programme. The family was jewish; his parents subsequently died in a concentration camp). Auerbach does not prepare underpaintings, nor does he use outline sketches for portraits. In contrast, he sketches landscapes in the field and brings the sketches back to the studio, sometimes using as many as 200 sketches for a single painting. His work might broadly be described as expressionist. Many of his paintings display an extremely thick impasto, something which he was criticized for at his 1956 Beaux Arts solo show. The impasto, which grew even heavier over the next decade is sometimes so heavy that the paint seems to have been sculpted rather than brushed on.
Frank Auerbach, one of Britain's most accomplished living artists, will have his first solo exhibition in Asia at Ben Brown Fine Arts in Hong Kong from 22 May 2013. By concentrating solely on a select group of portrait paintings and drawings, from the 1970s to the present day, this exhibition...
Frank Auerbach, “one of the greatest artists working today,” takes inspiration from Euclid's theorems
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Hannah Rothschild visits the studio of painter Frank Auerbach on the occasion of the upcoming exhibition Raw Truth Auerbach − Rembrandt at Ordovas Gallery, London, on view from October 4 – December 1, 2013. Asked about when a picture is finished Auerbach responds: "I want everything in the painting to work, that is, every force, every […]
Auerbach was born in Berlin, the son of Max Auerbach, a patent lawyer, and Charlotte Nora Burchardt, who had trained as an artist. Under ...
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A remarkable group of early drawings by Frank Auerbach (b. 1931), produced in the 1950s and 1960s during his time as a young artist in post-war London, will be presented together as a comprehensive group for the first time.
"I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing." Head of J.Y.M., 1969 J.Y.M. ...
As a major respective of his work opens at Tate Modern, Artist Frank Auerbach tells Hannah Rothschild about solitude, routine and the art of "forgetting oneself"
FRANK AUERBACH
The British painter is still in his studio, 365 days a year. In a late turn to self-portraiture, he has turned his scrutiny on himself.
The late artist unsettled our tired ways of seeing with a constant freshness of attack
Painting every day of the year, we take a look at the most important works by one of Britain’s most interesting post-war painters, Frank Auerbach.
