Saved by the Kindertransport scheme, the portraitist later fell in with Soho’s artistic crowd including Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud
Frank Auerbach, one of the most significant figurative painters of the postwar era, has died aged 93.
Over a career spanning seven decades, the British-German artist was known for his portraiture, as well as street scenes of Camden in north London where he kept the same studio for 50 years. He was also known for the unique way in which he created his work – repeatedly scraping the paint from versions he was dissatisfied with and starting again until the finished work could be so laden with paint that it threatened to wobble off the canvas. He once estimated that 95% of his paint ended up in the bin. “I’m trying to find a new way to express something,” he once told the Guardian. “So I rehearse all the other ways until I surprise myself with something I haven’t previously considered.”
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