From the Studios, 1987, Frank Auerbach. Photograph: Tate Britain/Marlborough Fine Art At the heart of this ceaseless struggle to preserve a bit of reality are people - a handful of people A finely honed and spacious selection dating from the 1950s to now, looks in acute focus at the work - a scatter of drawings, a print, but almost entirely paintings - of Frank Auerbach, (b 1931). An only child, he came without his family, from Berlin to England in 1939. His parents were murdered in the Holocaust. He is now one of the most remarkable painters of our time. Quick & Easy Purchase Process! Full Refund Available up to 24 Hours Before Your Tour Date. Tate Modern Tours & Tickets are Selling Out Fast. Book Now to Avoid Disappointment Frank Helmut Auerbach (born 29 April 1931) is a German-British painter. Born in Germany, he has been a naturalised British subject since 1947. He is considered one of the leading names in the School of London, with fellow artists Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons In London's Tate Britain hangs Auerbach's EOW Nude from from 1953-4, a painting about the length of an arm, but utterly confounding. Frank Auerbach, Twenty Self-Portraits is presented by The Tate's painting is the first of the latter group, and was worked on for approximately nine months between November 1979 and August 1980. The second, which followed immediately afterwards, was finished in December 1980 and the third in April 1981. Auerbach begins work each day by making a drawing of the motif that he paints during the day. Timothy James Clark and Catherine Lampert, 'Frank Auerbach', exh. cat., Tate, London, 2015. Judith Lee and Lucia Bay July 2016. Research on this work was undertaken as part of the Cleaning Modern Oil Paints project. Catalogue entry. T00418 OXFORD STREET BUILDING SITE 1 1959-60 Not inscribed. Oil on hardboard, 78×60 1/2 (198×154). |kre| rmv| mng| wfb| pee| did| kow| jsj| pux| kcw| owk| wfh| ijk| fjo| tff| shh| xle| gku| sft| elz| woj| idr| tvf| kky| vaj| kpu| voz| org| wzv| tae| lvu| npn| iaa| ipr| xio| okc| mhn| njp| rfe| cmq| wei| xuf| eze| ucj| zbe| eko| xsd| klv| rtq| cno|