Although born in Berlin, Frank Auerbach has studied and lived most of his life in London. From his student days at St. Martin's and the Royal College of Art, he has grown to become an internationally acclaimed painter with work in many great collections. His subjects mainly tend to be expressive observations of a single model or his north London surroundings in Camden Town. His paintings are characterised by heavy impasto and earthy colours, but in recent paintings vivid colours have begun to appear in the work.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

Arts Council of Great Britain; British Museum; Los Angeles County Museum; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Portrait Gallery, London; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Tate Britain; Yale Center for British Art

Robert Hughes, Frank Auerbach, Thames and Hudson, 1990
Catherine Lampert, Norman Rosenthal & Isabel Carlisle, Frank Auerbach Paintings and Drawings 1954-2001, Royal Academy Publications 2001
FRANK AUERBACH, Some Drawings and Three New Paintings, published by Marlborough Fine Art, 2004
Robert Hughes, Frank Auerbach, Thames and Hudson, 1990
Catherine Lampert, Norman Rosenthal & Isabel Carlisle, Frank Auerbach Paintings and Drawings 1954-2001, Royal Academy Publications 2001
FRANK AUERBACH, Some Drawings and Three New Paintings, published by Marlborough Fine Art, 2004

1956 Beaux-Arts Gallery, London
1965 Marlborough Fine Art, London
1978 Hayward Gallery, London (Arts Council of Great Britain)
1982 Marlborough Gallery, New York
1986 British Pavilion XLII Venice Biennale (Awarded the Golden Lion)
1986-87 Kunstverein in Hamburg; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Centro de Arte Reina, Sofia, Madrid
1989 Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam
1991 Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
1995 National Gallery, London
1997 Marlborough Fine Art, London
1998 Marlborough Gallery, New York
2001 Retrospective Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2004 Some Paintings and Three New Drawings Marlborough
Fine Art London, 2004