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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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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