Biographie de lucian freud biography

Painter and draughtsman Lucian Freud was born into a Jewish family in Berlin, Germany on 8 December 1922, the son of architect Ernst Freud and grandson of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.

Following Hitler's accession to Chancellorship in 1933, the family moved to Britain and Freud was educated at Dartington Hall in Devon (1933–36) and Bryanston School. He was naturalised in 1939. He briefly attended the Central School of Arts and Crafts (1938–39), then the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing (1939–42), run by Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines.

Freud’s first solo exhibition was held at Alex Reid and Lefevre Gallery in November 1944, followed by a joint exhibition with John Craxton at the London Gallery in 1947.

Following a further solo exhibition at the Hanover Gallery in 1950, Freud won the Arts Council prize at the Festival of Britain for Interior at Paddington in 1951. In 1954 he shared the British Pavilion at the Venice