Lucian Freud Jewish father, Ernst L. Freud, an architect. He was a grandson of Sigmund Freud, and elder brother of the broadcaster, writer and politician Clement Freud (thus uncle of Emma and Matthew Freud) and the younger brother of Stephan Gabriel Freud. The family emigrated to St John's Wood, London, in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism. Lucian became a British subject in 1939, having attended Dartington Hall School in Totnes, Devon, and later Bryanston School, for a year before being expelled due to disruptive behaviour. Freud briefly studied at the Central School of Art in London, and from 1939 to
Ernst L. Freud of Knightsbridge" as funeral directors. Ernst Freud also later designed the marble plinth on which Sigmund Freud's urn was placed. Freud married Lucie Brasch, daughter of Joseph Brasch, a wealthy Berlin corn merchant. Lucie had studied classical philology in Berlin and Munich, as well as art history with Heinrich Wölfflin in Munich. To honor his wife, Ernst Freud added the middle initial L, for Lucie, to his name. Ernst and Lucie had three sons: Stephen Gabriel Freud (1921–2015), the politician and broadcaster Clement Freud (1924–2009) and the painter Lucian Freud (1922–2011), who was named after his mother. Clement Freud wrote