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
An Evening with Lucian Freud the play were not released prior to the opening and due to the libidinous reputation of the eponymous Lucian Freud, there was much speculation in the press about the nature of the production. The Evening Standard wrongly stated that the play “features explicit sex scenes". The play and Bonas’s portrayal of the playwright were widely termed ‘fascinating’ and ‘charming’. An Evening with Lucian Freud An Evening with Lucian Freud is a 2015 play written by Laura-Jane Foley. It is a one-woman show with video cameos based on a real life encounter the playwright had with the artist Lucian Freud. The