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
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