Frank Auerbach: 29 April 1931 - 11 November 2024

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  • Serial_Apologist
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    • Dec 2010
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    Frank Auerbach: 29 April 1931 - 11 November 2024

    Frank Auerbach's death today has been announced. A great artist, in my view.

    R.I.P. Frank

  • Serial_Apologist
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    • Dec 2010
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    #2
    Apologies - should have been Auerbach in the thread title.

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    • french frank
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      • Feb 2007
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      #3
      (Also adjusted 1031 to 1931)

      One of the great postwar figurative painters who was a leading light of the School of London
      It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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      • french frank
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        • Feb 2007
        • 30279

        #4
        Also an appreciation:
        Saved from the Holocaust, this supremely modern painter captured the devasatation of postwar Britain as if it was his own – but he ultimately found salvation in painting
        It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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        • gurnemanz
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          • Nov 2010
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          #5
          I am very grateful to the Tate's Auerbach retrospective a few years ago which gave rewarding insight into an important artist who I had previously hardly known at all.

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          • Serial_Apologist
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            • Dec 2010
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            #6
            Originally posted by french frank View Post
            Many thanks, french frank. 'Twas late at night, my opening post!

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            • Pulcinella
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              • Feb 2014
              • 10918

              #7
              Times obituary:

              Artist whose faithful sitters returned regularly and whose vibrant landscapes were limited to his immediate locality

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              • GreggLD
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                • Nov 2024
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                #8
                How odd, I just registered (after being a BAL haunter on and off for years) and while looking at the other parts of the site I saw this. It is sad first post. I became aware of Auerbach in the late 70’s via a few essays in books written by the art critic Peter Fuller. Happily he lived a long life, he was quite a painter, and as a former painter, I was always a little envious (of Auerbach and several other accomplished gestural impasto painters). I had the pleasure of seeing his work at Marlborough (in NYC) over the years.

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                • Serial_Apologist
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                  • Dec 2010
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by GreggLD View Post
                  How odd, I just registered (after being a BAL haunter on and off for years) and while looking at the other parts of the site I saw this. It is sad first post. I became aware of Auerbach in the late 70’s via a few essays in books written by the art critic Peter Fuller. Happily he lived a long life, he was quite a painter, and as a former painter, I was always a little envious (of Auerbach and several other accomplished gestural impasto painters). I had the pleasure of seeing his work at Marlborough (in NYC) over the years.
                  But welcome to the forum, GreggLD.

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                  • Pulcinella
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                    • Feb 2014
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                    #10
                    A Sunday Times article by Waldemar Januszczak, Chief Art Critic, which I hope is shareable:

                    His life was centred in his studio in Mornington Crescent, London. It was his world. He painted the same models and the same city scenes over and over again

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                    • Serial_Apologist
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                      • Dec 2010
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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
                      A Sunday Times article by Waldemar Januszczak, Chief Art Critic, which I hope is shareable:

                      https://www.thetimes.com/article/f4c...acb67c63ee5e64
                      Many thanks, excellent and insightful - the article was fine, but for the Obit you had to commit via the trial.

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                      • Pulcinella
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                        • Feb 2014
                        • 10918

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post

                        Many thanks, excellent and insightful - the article was fine, but for the Obit you had to commit via the trial.
                        That's odd, as I clicked each time on 'Create shareable link'.

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                        • johncorrigan
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                          • Nov 2010
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                          #13
                          Pardon me if someone has posted this already, but I found Frank Auerbach's interview with John Wilson for BBC Radio 4's 'This Cultural Life' absolutely fascinating.
                          ​​​​​https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vsbv

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