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1931 Berlin, Germany - 2024 London, England. Known for: Modernist figure to non objective painting.
Frank Helmut Auerbach (born April 29, 1931) is a painter born in Germany. He has been a naturalized British citizen since 1947. Auerbach is a figurative painter, who focuses on portraits and city... Read full biography
Frank Helmut Auerbach (born April 29, 1931) is a painter born in Germany. He has been a naturalized British citizen since 1947. Auerbach is a figurative painter, who focuses on portraits and city scenes in and around the area of London in which he lives, Camden Town.[ Although sometimes described... Read full biography
Frank Helmut Auerbach (born April 29, 1931) is a painter born in Germany. He has been a naturalized British citizen since 1947. Auerbach is a figurative painter, who focuses on portraits and city scenes in and around the area of London in which he lives, Camden Town.[ Although sometimes described as expressionistic, Auerbach is not an expressionist painter. His work is not concerned with finding a visual equivalent to an emotional or spiritual state that characterized the expressionist... Read full biography
Frank Helmut Auerbach (born April 29, 1931) is a painter born in Germany. He has been a naturalized British citizen since 1947. Auerbach is a figurative painter, who focuses on portraits and city scenes in and around the area of London in which he lives, Camden Town.[ Although sometimes described as expressionistic, Auerbach is not an expressionist painter. His work is not concerned with finding a visual equivalent to an emotional or spiritual state that characterized the expressionist movement, rather it deals with the attempt to resolve the experience of being in the world in paint. In this the experience of the world is seen as essentially chaotic with the role of the artist being to impose an order upon that chaos and record that order... Read full biography
Frank Helmut Auerbach (born April 29, 1931) is a painter born in Germany. He has been a naturalized British citizen since 1947. Auerbach is a figurative painter, who focuses on portraits and city scenes in and around the area of London in which he lives, Camden Town.[ Although sometimes described as expressionistic, Auerbach is not an expressionist painter. His work is not concerned with finding a visual equivalent to an emotional or spiritual state that characterized the expressionist movement, rather it deals with the attempt to resolve the experience of being in the world in paint. In this the experience of the world is seen as essentially chaotic with the role of the artist being to impose an order upon that chaos and record that order in the painting. This ambition with the paintings results in Auerbach developing intense relationships with particular subjects, particularly t... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstract Expressionism
- •Abstraction, Abstract
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Human Head Images, Portrait Heads, Faces
- •Non Objective Subject
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
Art School
- •South Kensington Art School, Royal College of Art, Student
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty