Untitled (1972) by Lucian Freud, via Galerie Daniel Blau

Currently on view at Galerie Daniel Blau in Munich is “Portraits”, an exhibition of the portraiture of English painter Lucian Freud (b. 1922). The faces of Freud’s sitters often reveal the complexity of the inner world of the sitter.  The exhibition contains a wide array of techniques from more developed paintings to works that are more studies on the form, the latter offering an interesting perspective of a distillation of the painter’s signature style.  Freud’s father Ernst Ludwig Freud, was a German architect and the son of the founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud. The exhibit displays works from a series of paintings of the artist’s mother Lucie Brasch as well as additional etchings and paintings Freud completed after his father’s death in 1970.

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