Chronology

CHRONOLOGY

1922
Born Lucian Michael Freud on 8 December in Berlin, to Jewish parents. His father Ernst, the youngest son of Sigmund Freud, is an architect and his mother Lucie is the daughter of a grain merchant.

1933
Moves to Britain with family. Lucian and his brothers are soon after sent to school at Dartington Hall, Devon; Dane Court and Bryanston follow.

1938
Sigmund Freud arrives in London.
Drawings included in an exhibition of children’s art at Guggenheim Jeune, Cork Street, London.

1939
Becomes a naturalised British subject.
Death of Sigmund Freud.

1939–40
Stays in Capel Curig, North Wales.

1939–42
Studies at Central School of Arts and Crafts, London; then at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing, Dedham (under Cedric Morris).

1940
Self-portrait drawing published in Horizon.

1941
Serves on North Atlantic convoy for three months.
Returns to Morris’s school, which had been relocated at Benton End, Hadleigh.

1942
Moves to Abercorn Place, St John’s Wood.
Drawings included in an exhibition at the Alex Reid and Lefevre Gallery, London.

1943
Drawings published in Horizon.
Moves to Delamere Terrace, Paddington.

1944
Alex Reid and Lefevre Gallery, London, first one-man exhibition.
Nicholas Moore’s The Glass Tower: Poems 1936–43,illustrated by Freud, published by Editions Poetry London.

1945
Visits the Scilly Isles.

1946
Spends two months in Paris where he makes first two etchings, The Bird and Chelsea Bun.
Joins John Craxton on the Greek island of Poros where he remains for five months.

1947
London Gallery (with Craxton).

1948
Marries Kitty Garman, daughter of Kathleen Garman and Jacob Epstein. Moves to Clifton Hill, Maida Vale.
London Gallery.

1949–54
Visiting tutor, Slade School of Fine Art.

1950
Hanover Gallery, London.

1951
Awarded a £500 Purchase Prize from the Arts Council of Great Britain for Interior in Paddington, exhibited in Sixty Paintings for ’51, part of the Festival of Britain.

1952
Hanover Gallery, London.

1953
Marries Caroline Blackwood.

1954
Represents Britain at the 27th Venice Biennale of Art (with Francis Bacon and Ben Nicholson).
‘Some Thoughts on Painting’ published in Encounter.

1955
Second prize in the Daily Express Young Artists’ Exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries, London, with Hotel Bedroom.

1958
Marlborough Fine Art, London.

1962
Moves to Clarendon Crescent, Paddington.

1963
Marlborough Fine Art, London.

1967
Moves to Gloucester Terrace, Paddington.

1968
Marlborough Fine Art, London.

1970
Death of Ernst Freud.

1972
Moves to Thorngate Road, Maida Vale.
Completes The Painter’s Mother, the first in a series of paintings which continues until her death in 1989.
Leaves Marlborough Fine Art.
Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London.

1974
Hayward Gallery, London, the first retrospective of his work. Tours to Bristol City Art Gallery; Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery; and Leeds City Museum and Art Gallery.

1977
Moves to Holland Park.

1978
Davis & Long Company, New York, first solo exhibition of his work in America.
Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London.

1979
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo.

1981
A New Spirit in Painting, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Eight Figurative Artists, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT.

1982
Lucian Freud, monograph by Lawrence Gowing, published by Thames and Hudson, London.
Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London.

1983
Created Companion of Honour.
Leaves Anthony d’Offay Gallery, with James Kirkman continuing to act as his agent.

1984
The Hard Won Image, Tate Gallery, London.

The Proper Study, Lalit Akademi, Delhi, and Bombay.

1987
Selected for The Artist’s Eye, National Gallery, London.

1987–8
A School of London, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (British Council). Tours to Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; Museo d’Arte Moderna Ca’ Pesaro, Venice; and Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC (British Council). Tours to Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris; the Hayward Gallery, London, and the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin.

1989
Death of Lucie Freud.

1991–2
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (British Council). Tours to Tate Gallery Liverpool; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts; Otani Memorial Museum, Nishinomiya; Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo; and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
James Kirkman ceases to act as Freud’s agent.
Arranges to be represented by William Acquavella, New York.

1993
Awarded the Order of Merit.

1993–4
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Tours to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.

1994
Paintings hung at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London.

1995
From London: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, Kitajorganised by the British Council at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.

1996
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal.
Acquavella Galleries, New York.
Lucian Freud, ed. Bruce Bernard, published by Jonathan Cape, London.

1997
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.

1998
Tate Gallery, London.

2000
Acquavella Galleries, New York.

2001
Donates Portrait of The Queen to the Royal Collection.

2002
Tate Britain, London. Tours to Fundació ‘La Caixa’, Barcelona, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Constable. Le Choix de Lucian Freud, selected by Freud, at the Grand Palais, Paris.

2003
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York. Tours to Timothy Taylor Gallery, London.

2004
Wallace Collection, London.
Acquavella Galleries, New York.
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh. Tours to Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; and in 2005 to Waterhall Gallery of Modern Art, Birmingham; Marlborough Fine Art, London.

2005
Museo Correr, Venice.

2006
Auerbach and Freud at the V&A: New Paintings, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

2007
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Tours to Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; and in 2008 to the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague.
Lucian Freud, by William Feaver, published by Rizzoli, New York.
Museum of Modern Art, New York.

2008
Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert Gallery, London.
Lucian Freud on Paper by Sebastian Smee and Richard Calvocoressi, published by Jonathan Cape, London, and Rizzoli, New York.

2010
Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris.

2011
Lucian Freud dies on 20 July

2012
National Portrait Gallery, London. Tours to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas.
Blain|Southern, London. Tours to Acquavella Galleries, New York.