Lucian Freud
Closer. UBS Art Collection
Hatje Cantz Verlag
1st Edition
Published on 19. June 2017
Book
Hardback
120 pages
978-3-7757-4311-2 (ISBN)
Description
Lucian Freud's artwork is both intimate and raw. The viewer is confronted with corpulent figures, nudity, and glimpses into the psyches of those he portrayed. The painter, who died in 2011, was the grandchild of psychiatrist Sigmund Freud.
The UBS Art Collection contains the majority of etchings from Freud's last creative phase, as well as one watercolor and two paintings-a total of fifty-four works of the highest quality that are simultaneously delicate and bold. The fact that the exhibition is held in Berlin's Martin-Gropius-Bau is of particular significance, as the city was Freud's birthplace, from which he was forced to flee with his parents in 1933. With the help of the UBS Art Collection, it is as if the artist now returns home.
Exhibition: 22.7.-22.10.2017, Martin-Gropius-Bau
The UBS Art Collection contains the majority of etchings from Freud's last creative phase, as well as one watercolor and two paintings-a total of fifty-four works of the highest quality that are simultaneously delicate and bold. The fact that the exhibition is held in Berlin's Martin-Gropius-Bau is of particular significance, as the city was Freud's birthplace, from which he was forced to flee with his parents in 1933. With the help of the UBS Art Collection, it is as if the artist now returns home.
Exhibition: 22.7.-22.10.2017, Martin-Gropius-Bau
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Richard Cork is an award-winning art critic, historian, broadcaster and curator. He was Chief Art Critic of the Times 1991-2002, Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge University 1989-90, and Henry Moore Senior Fellow at the Courtauld Institute 1992-5. He has acted as a judge for the Turner Prize and curated major exhibitions at Tate, the Hayward Gallery, the Barbican Art Gallery, the Royal Academy and other European venues. He was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy in 2011.