Frank auerbach age
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Frank Helmut Auerbach (Frank Helmut Auerbach; born April 29, 1931, Berlin, Weimar Republic) - British artist of German origin, a brilliant representative of the London avant-garde, the "London School".
In 1939, Frank's parents — German Jews Max and Charlotte Auerbach — sent an 8-year-old son from Berlin to England. They died in a concentration camp three years later.
Frank received British citizenship. At 17, he played in theater productions (including Peter Ustinov himself) and linked his future with the acting profession. However, his acting career ended quickly - soon Frank met the actress Estella West, who convinced him to become an artist. In turn, Estella became the muse and Auerbach's favorite model - the portraits entitled by her initials EOW he wrote about 70.
He studied painting at the Royal College of Art, in addition, attended the class of David Bomberg - another representative of the "London School".
His manner of applying paint so thickly that painting, at times, turned into a sculpture, was subjected to fierce criticism for a long time. Auerbach barely made ends
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Frank Auerbach
German-born British painter (1931–2024)
Frank Helmut Auerbach (29 April 1931 – 11 November 2024) 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.[1][2]
Early life and education
Auerbach was born on 29 April 1931 in Berlin, Germany,[3][4] the son of Max Auerbach, a patent lawyer, and Charlotte Nora Borchardt, who had trained as an artist.[5] With rising Nazi persecution of Jews such as themselves, his parents sent him to Britain in 1939,[6] one of six such children sponsored by British writer Iris Origo.[7][8] His parents stayed behind in Germany, and were murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942.[9][10]
In Britain, Auerbach became a pupil at Bunce Court School, near Faversham in Kent, where he excelle
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| Frank Auerbach, 1989 |
In 1939, with the rise of Hitler and impending war, his parents decided to send him to England on the Kindertransport which was organised to save mainly, but not exclusively, Jewish children from the NAZIs.
He left Hamburg on the SS George Washington just before his 8th birthday arriving in Southampton 3 days later and was subsequently taken to Bunce Court School in Kent, a boarding school, while his parents stayed behind in Germany. They were later killed in the Holocaust, probably in Auschwitz.
When the news reached him that his parents had been killed his reaction seemed to not have been that great - that is, as far as one can tell from watching interviews with him. But, of course, who knows the depths of anguish hidden beneath the calm and controlled waters of any of us? What he has said, however, is that he was happy at Bunce Court, and thought his family was a bit "stuffy". We must also remember he was only a little boy at the time
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