Painters Online Logo

Login/register

Studio

Frank Auerbach

Welcome to the forum.

Here you can discuss all things art with like-minded artists, join regular painting challenges, ask questions, buy and sell art materials and much more.

Make sure you sign in or register to join the discussions.

Hang on Studio Wall
Showing page 1 of 2
Author
Message
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

  • Prestige User
  • Reputation: 24825
  • Last active:
  • Posts: 8654
Posted
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

  • Prestige User
  • Reputation: 24825
  • Last active:
  • Posts: 8654
Posted
Frank Auerbach, who has just died.  

Alan Bickley

  • Prestige User
  • Reputation: 11904
  • Last active:
  • Posts: 4496
Posted
I read that he had died, that’s a fabulous image!
IMG_8857

Marjorie Firth

  • Prestige User
  • Reputation: 8079
  • Last active:
  • Posts: 2454
Posted
That really is excellent Robert. You’ve got a bit of the Rembrandt’s going on there.

Edited
by Marjorie Firth

P1080764

Carol .

  • Respected User
  • Last active:
  • Posts: 679
Posted
That's a fabulous image, Robert. Impressive work.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

  • Prestige User
  • Reputation: 24825
  • Last active:
  • Posts: 8654
Posted
Not, I hasten to say, by me!  This was one of his own. 
IMG_8857

Marjorie Firth

  • Prestige User
  • Reputation: 8079
  • Last active:
  • Posts: 2454
Posted
Aaagh!

Alan Bickley

  • Prestige User
  • Reputation: 11904
  • Last active:
  • Posts: 4496
Posted
No mistaking that image as his work Robert, here’s another one of his, but it looks like one by Lucian Freud to me… But that’s what Google has thrown up!

Edited
by Alan Bickley

IMG_3630

Paul (Dixie) Dean

  • Prestige User
  • Reputation: 21432
  • Last active:
  • Posts: 6952
Posted
May we should have him as tbs bonus artist this weekend?.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

  • Prestige User
  • Reputation: 24825
  • Last active:
  • Posts: 8654
Posted
By all means, though I'd rather someone else did it.... I'm a bit busy at the moment, my birthday's on Monday, I have a meeting the same day - I know that's not the weekend, but I have things to do.  Press me if you wish, you know I'm always reluctant to do anything, whatever the reason!
P1080764

Carol .

  • Respected User
  • Last active:
  • Posts: 679
Posted
I've just viewed some of his work, it says he was a the master of psychological realism. Many artists draw upon their own traumatic experiences to create works that resonate with their own deep emotions. After reading, Frank was a holocaust survivor, he came to Britain, his parents stayed in Germany, and did not. Maybe his work truly does deserves closer inspection the way he has placed down form and colour and how his marks are placed on the canvas.  

Edited
by Carol Jones

logo2

Martin Cooke

  • Forum Expert
  • Last active:
  • Posts: 220
Posted
Perhaps this thread can serve as a bonus artist thread? There is plenty online this week about Frank Auerbach and any introduction might end up repeating much of this information e.g. https://courtauld.ac.uk/news-blogs/2024/remembering-frank-auerbach-1931-2024/ Newsnight interview He had a major retrospective in 2001 at the Royal Academy that I was fortunate enough to visit, though I missed the opportunity earlier this year to see his Charcoal Heads exhibition at the Courtauld. He kept going right up to his 90s and some of the later work I find most impressive. This painting dates from 2004 For anyone wishing to find out more and see much of his work, I recommend the 2022 book by William Feaver

Edited
by Martin Cooke

Showing page 1 of 2