twenty years older than Freud's mother Amalie. The patriarch of a large family, he had already been married twice, with the children of his first marriage older than Amalie. The dynamics of his ...

Bankrupt, Freud's father took his family to Vienna, where they lived in what had once been the Jewish ghetto, moving from one miserable apartment to the next, six times in fifteen years.

The Freud Museum can be found in the London home that Sigmund Freud spent his final years in after fleeing the Nazis in 1938. The family were able to bring across most of their belongings, so it ...

Lucian Freud was one of the major figurative painters of the 20th century. Working in an uncompromisingly confrontational style, his portraits and nudes were rendered with a thickly laden brush. Often ...