Lucian Freud Freud then began to see Guinness heiress and writer Lady Caroline Blackwood. They married in 1953 but divorced in 1959. 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
Unauthorized Freud Unauthorized Freud Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend is a 1998 book about Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, edited by the critic Frederick Crews. The book received both positive reviews, crediting Crews with having assembled a coherent case against Freud's theories and therapeutic techniques, and more mixed evaluations, which criticized Crews for lacking objectivity. "Unauthorized Freud" is a collection of critical articles about Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis. In addition to Crews, the contributors include the critic Stanley Fish, the historians David Stannard and Peter Swales, the philologist Sebastiano Timpanaro, the philosophers Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen, Frank Cioffi, Barbara Von Eckardt, Ernest