TheArtStory.org Frank Auerbach was born in 1931. Updated and modified regularly [Accessed ] [Internet]. [Internet]. Known for paintings marked by an immediately recognizable thick, nearly grotesque impasto, Frank Auerbach creates visceral, fluid works that capture the essence of a person or place. James Hyman Art Newspaper October 1990. Sent to England to escape Nazism as a child, Auerbach rarely leaves Britain and has worked in … Frank Auerbach: Paintings and Drawings 1954–2001. Frank Auerbach was born in Berlin in 1931 to an upper-middle class family that descended from a line of rabbis. Royal Academy, London The paintings on show at the RA have an effect that it would have been impossible to anticipate; the grand space of the galleries and the juxtaposition of the paintings achieve resonance which would have been impossible in … ... "Frank Auerbach Artist Overview and Analysis". His mother Charlotte was a former art student, and his father Max was a patent lawyer. Since the late 1950s he has worked in the same north London studio. Frank Auerbach: Paintings and Drawings 1954-2001 is at the Royal Academy of Arts, London W1 (020-7300 8000), from Friday until December … TheArtStory.org Content compiled and written by Kristen Osborne-Bartucca Edited and published by The Art Story Contributors Available from: First published on 28 Oct 2018. The Saatchi Collection has had a show for much of this year and this autumn sees a new series of etchings and an exhibition of recent paintings at the Marlborough Gallery. "Frank Auerbach Artist Overview and Analysis". . Sent to England to escape Nazism as a child, Auerbach rarely leaves Britain and has worked in … Leon Kossoff, an artist with whom Auerbach has such a strong link, passed the tenancy on to him, having himself taken the studio from another artist of that generation, Gustav Metzger.All three were taught, well, in Auerbach’s opinion, by David Bomberg. . Known for paintings marked by an immediately recognizable thick, nearly grotesque impasto, Frank Auerbach creates visceral, fluid works that capture the essence of a person or place. Frank Auerbach's paintings and drawings have never been so well publicised or so fashionable.