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Lucian Freud

1922 - 2011

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Lucian Michael Freud (; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. His early career as a painter was influenced by surrealism, and afterwards by expressionism, but by the early 1950s his often stark and alienated paintings tended towards realism. Freud was an intensely private and guarded man, and his paintings, completed over a 60-year career, are mostly of friends and family. They are generally sombre and thickly impastoed, often set in unsettling interiors and urban landscapes. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lucian Freud is the 446th most popular painter (down from 414th in 2019), the 1,232nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,136th in 2019) and the 48th most popular German Painter.

Lucian Freud is a British painter who is known for his uncompromising portraits of friends and family.

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Among painters, Lucian Freud ranks 446 out of 2,023. Before him are Max Klinger, Marie Laurencin, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Sigmar Polke, Hubert Robert, and Piero Manzoni. After him are Jean-Étienne Liotard, Mikhail Vrubel, Giovanni Battista Moroni, Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Theophanes the Greek, and Cima da Conegliano.

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Among people born in 1922, Lucian Freud ranks 65. Before him are Barbara Bel Geddes, Ugo Tognazzi, Blake Edwards, Francesco Rosi, Ken Noritake, and Bernardin Gantin. After him are Har Gobind Khorana, Mao Anying, Oskar Werner, Marek Edelman, Melvin Laird, and Leo Tindemans. Among people deceased in 2011, Lucian Freud ranks 63. Before him are Masahiro Hamazaki, Itamar Franco, Diana Wynne Jones, Jorge Semprún, Frans Sammut, and Roberts Blossom. After him are Har Gobind Khorana, Salmaan Taseer, Cliff Robertson, Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Hohenberg, Bubba Smith, and Joe Simon.

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Among people born in Germany, Lucian Freud ranks 1,232 out of 7,253. Before him are Ludwig Guttmann (1899), Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (1732), Leo von Klenze (1784), Robert Aumann (1930), Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden (1755), and Christiane F. (1962). After him are Marie of Prussia (1825), Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (1874), Franz Karl Achard (1753), Hermann Alexander Diels (1848), Princess Pauline of Württemberg (1810), and Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine (1661).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Lucian Freud ranks 48. Before him are Adam Elsheimer (1578), Godfrey Kneller (1646), Hannah Höch (1889), Heinz Linge (1913), Max Klinger (1857), and Sigmar Polke (1941). After him are Heinrich Füger (1751), Wilhelm Busch (1832), Anselm Feuerbach (1829), Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751), Joachim von Sandrart (1606), and Andreas Achenbach (1815).

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