Auerbach, Frank

German-born, British painter in FIGURATIVE STYLE.

Auerbach is one of the painters who has been instrumental in defining The School of London. He is a figurative painter, with a never-ending interest in the relationship between his own art and that of art history's greatest painters, yet at the same time he remains a distinct individualist with his own form of expression. His special working method and his localized, almost monomaniacal choice of subjects has made him an almost mythical figure in today's art.

The Artist was trained at the following art schools:

Hampstead Garden Suburb Institute;

Borough Polytechnic under David Bomberg (1947 to 1948);

St Martin’s School of Art (1948–52); and

Royal College of Art.

His first exhibition was held at the Beaux Arts Gallery, London, in 1956.

Selected Exhibitions: Museums and Galleries

2006   "Tom Bendhem: Collector," Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham Spa, Gloucestershire, England 2006   "Summer Exhibition," Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, London, England 2006   "The New Landscape/The New Still Life: Soutine and Modern Art," Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, NY 2006   "FRANK AUERBACH: Radierungen und Skizzen," Galerie Koch, Hannover 2006   "Freud and Auerbach at the V&A," Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), London, England 2006   "Drawing Inspiration: Contemporary British Drawing," Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria, England 2006   "Print: Modern British, International and Contemporary," OSBORNE SAMUEL, London, England 2005   "Freud, Auerbach, Hockney & Rego: Drawing on Copper and Stone," Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria, England 2005   "A Selection of Modern British, European and American Paintings," Crane Kalman Gallery, London, England 2005   "Fifty Years of British Landscape Painting," James Hyman Fine Art, London, England 2005   "Summer Exhibition," Marlborough Galerie AG, Zurich 2004   "English Prints from the Collection," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 2004   "Frank Auerbach," Marlborough Galerie AG, Zurich 2004   "The Challenge of Post War Painting," James Hyman Fine Art, London, England 2004   "Twentieth Century British Art: In association with Scolar Fine Art," OSBORNE SAMUEL, London, England 2004   "Marlborough Re-opening Exhibition," Marlborough Galerie AG, Zurich 2003   "Director," Ben Uri Gallery, London, England 2003   "Representing the World," Frissiras Museum, Athens 2002   "British and American Art," Crane Kalman Gallery, London, England 2002   "Unit C: Travelling through Painting," Frissiras Museum, Athens 2002   "Frank Auerbach," Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland 2002   "Frank Auerbach, ‘Primrose Hill', Spring Sunshine, 1961-62/64 Exhibit," Weston Link, Edinburgh, Scotland 1999   "School of London," KunstHausWien, Vienna 1998   "Cleveland Collects Contemporary Art," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 1998   "L'Ecole de Londres," Musée Maillol - Fondation Dina Vierny, Paris 1998   "Hannah Höch, Mit Pinsel, Feder und Schere," Galerie Remmert und Barth, Duesseldorf

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