Is Frank Auerbach Britain’s greatest living artist?

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We found out what it's like to sit for him. (via BBC Culture)

Is Frank Auerbach Britain’s greatest living artist?

The celebrated 84-year-old artist Frank Auerbach paints the same subjects time and again in a tiny studio.

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Frank Auerbach: 'Painting is the most marvellous activity humans have invented'

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'Frank Auerbach’s work emerges in all its rude, raw power in this astonishing new retrospective.' **** The Telegraph

Frank Auerbach at Tate Britain

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"It's a painting but it looks like a sculpture almost"

Discover Auerbach's works with portrait photographer Mary McCartney

Vibrant, inventive, alive. Rediscover the art of painting with Frank Auerbach

Frank Auerbach opens this Friday at Tate Britain

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'It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint.'

Happy birthday, Frank Auerbach! Born on this day in 1931.

Frank Auerbach, Bacchus and Ariadne 1971, Tate Collection

Frank Auerbach
Frank Helmut Auerbach is a German-born British painter. He has been a naturalised British citizen since 1947. Wikipedia
Born: April 29, 1931 (age 84), Berlin, Germany
Period: Modern art
Artwork: Head of E.O.W. 1955, Head of J.Y.M., To the Studio, more
Children: Jake Auerbach
Education: Central Saint Martins, London South Bank University, Royal College of Art
Quotes


Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.
It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.
Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.