Lucian Freud Lucian Freud Lucian Michael Freud, OM (; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draftsman, specializing in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish architect Ernst L. Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud. His family moved to Britain in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism. From 1942-43 he attended Goldsmiths College, London. He enlisted in the Merchant Navy during the Second World War. His early career as a painter was influenced by surrealism, but by the early 1950s his
The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud Jones." Psychologist Hans Eysenck, writing in "Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire" (1985), described Jones' biography of Freud as the "most famous", but saw it as "more a mythology than a history", charging Jones with suppressing data which might reflect unfavourably on Freud. Historian Roy Porter described Jones' work as "hagiographical and bowdlerized". Philosopher Jerome Neu called "The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud" the most useful biography of Freud, alongside Gay's "Freud: A Life for Our Time". Philosopher Richard Wollheim called "The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud" a "great" biography, but observed that while Jones had "lived