In 1933, the 11-year-old Lucian Freud and his family fled Nazi Germany for Britain, said Bridget Galton in the Ham & High (London). Five years later, following Hitler’s annexation of Austria ...

Yet when her father Lucian Freud, one of 20th-century Britain’s greatest painters, was alive, she’d always buckle — and dig into the frosty silver bowl at The Wolseley on Piccadilly.

Freud was born in Berlin in 1922 to a well-off German family who fled the Nazis for Britain in 1933 and became British citizens in 1939. He went to several schools but is said to have attended few ...

Lucian Freud, Kai, (1991-1992). Courtesy Christie's Friends, family and romantic partners dominate the oeuvre of British painter Lucian Freud, whose work often documented his personal relationships.

Lucian Freud was one of the major figurative painters of the 20th century. Working in an uncompromisingly confrontational style, his portraits and nudes were rendered with a thickly laden brush. Often ...

THE LIVES OF LUCIAN FREUD: The Restless Years, 1922-1968. By William Feaver. Knopf. 607 pages. $40. In this rather unusual biography of British artist Lucian Freud, the first of two volumes, the ...

Analyzing Lucian Freud A major biography and a recent film paint a picture of one of the greatest modern portraitists. Lucian Freud, left, and Brendan Behan, 1953 (Courtesy of Knopf) ...

The royal family's personal art collection contains gifts from the likes of Lucian Freud and Marc Chagall, among others. The Garden Room at Clarence House, with Leandro Bassano's painting of Noah ...

Lucian Freud: The Self-Portraits at the Royal Academy, an exhibition of 56 paintings, a surprising number of which are mere unfinished fragments, tries to give an answer to that question. Yes, the ...

Lucian Freud’s nudes from the 1990s and 2000s; a Gretchen Bender retrospective revisits her TV-based installations; and artists address social justice issues in “Perilous Bodies.” ...