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Lucian Freud

1922 - 2011

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Lucian Michael Freud, OM CH (; 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 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 1,673,959 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Lucian Freud is the 273rd most popular painter (up from 285th in 2019), the 677th most popular biography from Germany (up from 703rd in 2019) and the 21st 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 273 out of 1,428. Before him are Frans Snyders, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Joachim Patinir, Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād, Francesco Hayez, and Max Beckmann. After him are Gerard David, Gerrit Dou, Ivan Kramskoi, Masolino da Panicale, Simon Vouet, and Hans von Aachen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Lucian Freud ranks 42. Before him are Yang Chen-Ning, Nikolay Basov, Julius Nyerere, Hans Georg Dehmelt, Nándor Hidegkuti, and Renata Tebaldi. After him are Leon M. Lederman, Ahmed Sékou Touré, Liliane Bettencourt, Nils Liedholm, Dana Zátopková, and Manolis Glezos. Among people deceased in 2011, Lucian Freud ranks 29. Before him are John Barry, Diana Wynne Jones, Annie Girardot, Rudolf Mössbauer, Necmettin Erbakan, and Willard Boyle. After him are Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Christa Wolf, Manfred Gerlach, Baruch Samuel Blumberg, Lynn Margulis, and John McCarthy.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Lucian Freud ranks 677 out of 5,289. Before him are Felix Wankel (1902), Wilhelm Hauff (1802), August Horch (1868), Hermann Weyl (1885), Matilda of Ringelheim (894), and Max Beckmann (1884). After him are Georg Jellinek (1851), Ingeborg of Denmark, Queen of France (1174), Jakob Fugger (1459), Franz Joseph Gall (1758), Elsa Einstein (1876), and Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Lucian Freud ranks 21. Before him are George Grosz (1893), Hans Baldung (1484), August Macke (1887), Max Liebermann (1847), Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805), and Max Beckmann (1884). After him are Hans von Aachen (1552), Franz Stuck (1863), Oskar Schlemmer (1888), Carl Spitzweg (1808), Philipp Otto Runge (1777), and Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789).

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