Tuesday 24 January 2017

Who is Frank Auerbach?

This is portrait of Frank Auerbach. Use the internet to research who he is. Find out about his life, his work, and why he is famous. Look for interesting or unusual facts about him.

Here are some starter questions:

1. Where was he born?
2. When was he born?
3. What happened in his childhood?
4. Did he only paint portraits?
5. How did he use paint?
6. How big was his self portrait?
7. When did he make it?
8. What did he use to make it?
9. What age was he?
10. What do you think about the self-portrait?

23 comments:

  1. He was born in 1931 and died at 85 years old

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  2. He was born in Berlin,Germany

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  3. When he was a few weeks away from his eighth birthday his parents put on a train going from Germany to Britain.It was April 1939 and he would never see them again.

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  4. Frank Auerbach was born in 1931 in April the 29 and he was famous artist.

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  5. He was born Frank Helmut Auerbach on the 29 April 1931 in Germany.He came to Britain in 1939.He decided to become an artist at the age of 16.He studied at the Royal College of Art in London. A quote from Auerbach: 'I find myself simply more engaged when I know the people. They get older and change; there is something touching about that, about recording something that’s getting on.'

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  6. In 1939 he was sent to Nazism. His parents died in a concentration camps.He also spent his childhood at a progressive boarding school.

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  7. He was born in Berlin. His parents were Jewish.His father was a lawyer and his mother a former art student.

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  8. A quote from Frank Auerbach: I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

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  9. Auerbach was born in Berlin, the son of Max Auerbach,his parents sent him to Britain in 1939. he taught camberwell school of art. he became a pupil at Bunce court school.

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  10. FRANK left school in 1947

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  11. Frank Helmut Auerbach was born in 1931 April 29. He is British painter who was born in Berlin in Germany.
    He has been a British citizen since 1947. in his childhood his father was a lawyer and his mother was a former art student. in 1939 he was sent to England to escape Nazism. his perant who remained behind died in concentration camps

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  12. Frank Auerbach middle name is helmut and he is a british painter born in Germany. He was born on the 29th of April 1931 and he died in the age of 85. He only had one child and his name was Jake Auerbach

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  13. 1)Frank Auerbach was born in Berlin.
    2)He was born on the 29 of April in 1931.
    3)He spent his childhood at a progressive boarding school,called Bunce court at Lenham near Faversham, Kent a school for Jewish refugee children.

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  14. QUOTE= I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.
    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. this was said by Frank Helmut Auerbach

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  15. His self portrait was done in 1958. In his childhood he was in board school in Bunce Court.

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  16. These are some of Frank Auerbachs quotes,

    "I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it"
    "I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing"
    "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."

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  17. He almost became an actor.his interest in art proved a stronger draw and he began studying in London.

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  18. Auerbach was born in Berlin. His parent sent him to Britain in 1939. In Germany 1942 Auerbach's parents died.

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  19. 4)He didn't just do painting he did night classes as well
    5)He was a serious painter and did not smile.

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  20. Frank Helmut Auerbach was born in 1931 april 29 and he is 85 years old and he said that he is hopeing to make new things for the world

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  21. Helmut Auerbach was born in Berlin,Germany.

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  22. he was born in 1931 he did loads of portraits like other artist he was serius with his portraits
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  23. Frank Auerbach was a great artist.He self portrait of him self. He was born in 29 of April in 1931 is a British painter. He was traveling to Germany he has been a naturalised British citizen since 1947.

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