Figurative Painter Frank Aurebach Bid The World Farewell At 93

German British painter, Frank Aurebach, who was last member of London's group of postwar artist, bid world farewell at 93. Auerbach’s gallery, Frankie Rossi Art Projects, informed on Tuesday that artist died at his home in London day before.

What was Auerbach's, a revered figurative painter, childhood like? 

Born in Berlin in 1931, Auerbach came to England in 1939 as one of six children sponsored by writer Iris Origo. It was part of a movement known as Kindertransport that rescued thousands of Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Europe in months before World War II. Auerbach was 7 and never saw his parents again. Both were killed in Auschwitz concentration camp.

“I’ve done this thing that psychiatrists disapprove of, which is blocking things out,” Auerbach told BBC eight deces later. “Life is too short, in my case, to brood over past.” He attended a Quaker-run boarding school in England alongside or refugees and war orphans, and after studies at St. Martin’s School of Art and Royal College of Art in London, he devoted his life to painting.

Painter Frank Aurebach's oevure 

Along with or “School of London” post-war artists including Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Leon Kossoff, he focused on figurative painting regardless of changing artistic fashions. Auerbach slared canvasses in thick layers of paint to produce near-abstract but recognizable landscapes and brooding, occluded portraits. Auerbach told BBC earlier this year that paintings’ “eccentric thickness” was “an involuntary byproduct of fact that I went on and on and on and repainted whole image from top to bottom every time.”

“All art comes out of dissatisfaction,” he said.

Auerbach exhibited his work from 1950s but didn’t gain fame for anor 20 years. His first retrospective exhibition was at London’s Hayward Gallery in 1978. He represented Britain at 1986 Venice Biennale, winning Golden Lion top prize. His most recent exhibition, Frank Auerbach: Charcoal Hes, opened at London’s Courtauld Gallery in February.

(With AP Inputs)