Frank Auerbach feature: 7.15pm Radio, 4 27 Jan

[Serial_Apologist]

Expressionist portrait and landscape painter from a British generation that included Francis Bacon, reclusive Auerbach continues to paint in relative obscurity. Perhaps a new documentary is called for!

This Cultural Life: 5/7

John Wilson talks to 92-year-old British-German painter Frank Auerbach about his formative experiences and influences.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vsbv

Repeated Monday 29th, 2.15pm.

[eighthobstruction]

....thanks for highlighting this...

[smittims]

Thanks for posting this. Frank Auerbach looks to be the sort of artist who interests me.

Having a poor memory for names, I confuse him with Erich Auerbach the photographer, famous for his photos of musicians, (e.g. the famous pictures of Britten and Rostropovich rehearsing Britten's Cello Sonata). I can't discover if they were related. And now I find there were two (ad maybe more ) Erich Auerbachs, just as there are two John Wilsons on Radio3. It's all getting confusing .

[Serial_Apologist]

Expressionist portrait and landscape painter from a British generation that included Francis Bacon, reclusive Auerbach continues to paint in relative obscurity. Perhaps a new documentary is called for!

This Cultural Life: 5/7

John Wilson talks to 92-year-old British-German painter Frank Auerbach about his formative experiences and influences.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vsbv

Repeated Monday 29th, 2.15pm.

Just bumping this up now that this excellent programme is on as a repeat.

[johncorrigan]

From the same series, I listened to John Wilson interviewing Juliet Binoche about her cultural life and it was a great show.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001vzm5

[french frank]

Just bumping this up now that this excellent programme is on as a repeat.

Fascinating stuff, particularly the inspiration he derived from a black and white reproduction of Turner's The Fighting Temeraire which he saw in Arthur Mee's Childrens' Encyclopaedia. We had Arthur Mee's Childrens' Encyclopaedia but what I gained from that was how to make a whistle from a sycamore twig (it didn't actually whistle though ). But then, if I remember, Auerbach said that he had no interest in music - so to each his own.

Addiitionally, a very informative Wiki article on Bunce Court where Auerbach was educated.

[Serial_Apologist]

Fascinating stuff, particularly the inspiration he derived from a black and white reproduction of Turner's The Fighting Temeraire which he saw in Arthur Mee's Childrens' Encyclopaedia. We had Arthur Mee's Childrens' Encyclopaedia but what I gained from that was how to make a whistle from a sycamore twig (it didn't actually whistle though ). But then, if I remember, Auerbach said that he had no interest in music - so to each his own.

Addiitionally, a very informative Wiki article on Bunce Court where Auerbach was educated.

What a remarkable place - I would have thrived there, rather than the quasi-fascist boarding school I was made to attend - and how sad that the founder was unable to keep it going after the war.

[gurnemanz]

We only really got to know Auerbach''s work at the memorable Tate show a few years ago and the John Wilson interview offered valuable insights into his life and art.

We recently encountered for the first time another exile to this country from Nazism, the Austrian potter, Lucy Rie. A beautiful exhibition at the Holburne Museum in Bath. Guardian review

[eighthobstruction]

....audio-wise........i couldn't understand hardly a word here and there....

[Serial_Apologist]

....audio-wise........i couldn't understand hardly a word here and there....

I thought it was just my hearing impediments!

[french frank]

I thought it was just my hearing impediments!

I sort of got used to it eventually.