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Lucian Freud

1922 - 2011

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Lucian Michael Freud (; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish architect Ernst L. Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud. Freud got his first name "Lucian" from his mother in memory of the ancient writer Lucian of Samosata. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lucian Freud has received more than 2,856,958 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Lucian Freud is the 414th most popular painter (down from 374th in 2019), the 1,136th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,052nd in 2019) and the 34th most popular German Painter.

Lucian Freud is a British painter who is known for his uncompromising portraits of friends and family.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Lucian Freud ranks 414 out of 2,023. Before him are Vasily Perov, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Pietro Cavallini, Marcantonio Raimondi, and Carlo Dolci. After him are Cristofano Allori, Karel Appel, Isaac Levitan, Jan Matsys, Pieter Lastman, and Bernard Buffet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Lucian Freud ranks 64. Before him are Blake Edwards, Alberto Granado, Oskar Werner, Marek Edelman, Ken Noritake, and Hussein-Ali Montazeri. After him are Ugo Tognazzi, Adolfo Celi, Enrico Berlinguer, Rajko Mitić, Toots Thielemans, and Carlo M. Cipolla. Among people deceased in 2011, Lucian Freud ranks 55. Before him are Aristides Pereira, Diana Wynne Jones, Ante Marković, Alberto Granado, Pete Postlethwaite, and Linda Christian. After him are Maria Schneider, Valentin Ivanov, William Lipscomb, Madame Nhu, Dev Anand, and Roberts Blossom.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Lucian Freud ranks 1,136 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernst Zermelo (1871), August von Kotzebue (1761), Wilhelm Groener (1867), Max Hoffmann (1869), Johannes Frießner (1892), and Elisabeth of the Palatinate (1618). After him are Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (1732), Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1591), Margarethe von Trotta (1942), Gotthard of Hildesheim (960), Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg (1744), and Julius Richard Petri (1852).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Lucian Freud ranks 34. Before him are Philipp Otto Runge (1777), Joseph Karl Stieler (1781), Stefan Lochner (1410), Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789), Oskar Schlemmer (1888), and Max Klinger (1857). After him are Adam Elsheimer (1578), Anna Maria van Schurman (1607), Erich Heckel (1883), Konrad Witz (1400), Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884), and Anselm Feuerbach (1829).

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