The unity in any painter’s work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way… style.
Frank Auerbach Quotes
To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.
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| Birth: | 29th April, 1931 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Painter |
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Frank Helmut Auerbach was born in Berlin, Germany. He is a German-born British painter. He is one of today’s leading international artists. His reputation and art first came to wide public attention in 1959 when the British arts review magazine “X” published a feature story on his work. Auerbach's first solo exhibition was at the Beaux Arts Gallery in London in 1956. However, he was most frequently to be found teaching at Camberwell School of Art, where he taught from 1958 to 1965.
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