Frank Auerbach

Frank Helmut Auerbach ( 29 as April as 1931 (85 years), Berlin , Germany) is a German painter nationalized British in 1947. ¹

Biography

Son of the lawyer Max Auerbach and the amateur painter Charlotte Nora Burchardt was born in Berlin but thanks to the writer Iris Origo , was sent to England in 1939 ² to escape the persecution Nazi . At age seven he left via Hamburg to Southampton . He never again saw his parents who died in concentration camps. ³

In the school of Kent , he stood out as an actor and painter, participated in works of Peter Ustinov in St Pancras. He studied at the Royal College of Art from 1952 to 1955. ^{4 5}

His first solo exhibition was in 1956, and important shows at the Marlborough Gallery in New York , in 1969, 1982, 1994, 1998 and 2006 ⁶

In 1986 he represented England at the Venice Biennale winning the award along with Sigmar Polke . He has had important retrospectives at the Kunstverein in Hamburg, Reina Sofia Art Center, Madrid , in 1987, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 1989; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, and the National Gallery , London, in 1995. ⁷

For 2014 a great retrospective is prepared in his work in the London Tate Gallery . ^{Referring to Fig.}

Bibliography

• Frank Auerbach, William Feaver, Rizzoli International Publications (2009)
• Frank Auerbach, Robert Hughes, Thames & Hudson Ltd (1990)
• Frank Auerbach, British Council, The British Council Visual Arts Publications (1986)
• Frank Auerbach - Early Work 1954-1978, Paul Moorhouse, Offer Waterman & Co (2012)
• Frank Auerbach: The London Building Sites 1952-1962, Paul Holberton Publishing (2010)
• Frank Auerbach: Paintings and Drawings 1954-2001, Royal Academy of Arts (8 October 2001)
• Frank Auerbach, ‘Fragments from a Conversation’ Vol. 1, No. 1 (November 1959); An Anthology from X, Oxford University Press (1988)

• Hans Platschek: Sieger im Kampf mit der Farbe, in: Art - Das Kunstmagazin, 2, (1990), S. 28-41.
• Robert Hughes: Frank Auerbach, Thames and Hudson, 2. Aufl. 1992 (1990), ISBN 0-500-27675-7

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