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Frank Helmut
Auerbach
Internationally recognised and admired and part of the London School which includes Lucian Freud and Leon Kossoff,Auerbach came to England in 1939 from Berlin and studied at St.Martin's School of Art and the Royal College of Art but was more strongly influenced at Borough Polytechnic by Bomberg's exploratory attitude. A figurative painter, Auerbach's work portrays either one of a small group of mainly female friends with two being used time and again - Julia, the professional model Juliet Yardley Mills (JYM) and Stella West (EOW) or London scenes, particularly Camden Town, a recurring subject being Mornington Crescent. Auerbach is broadly described as expressionist with an extremely thick impasto which is sometimes so heavy that the paint seems to have been sculpted rather than brushed on. Major retrospectives have been the 1978 Arts Council for the Hayward gallery, London, the XLII Venice Biennale (1986) and the Royal Academy in 2001.
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