caption death_date death_place birth_name birth_place footnote imagesize training nationality field birth_date spouse image article_title name
lucian freud 20 july 2011 london , united kingdom lucian michael freud berlin , germany became citizenship through birth held austrian citizenship through his grandfather sigmund a freud naturalised british citizen in 1939 retained german 180px central school of art british painting 8 december 1922 kathleen ; divorced -rrb- lady caroline blackwood -lrb- 1953 -- 1959 `` ; divorced -rrb- kitty '' epstein -lrb- 1948 -- 1952 lucienfreud.jpg lucian freud
 lucian freud
lucian freud

lucian michael freud , om , ch -lrb- ; 8 december 1922 -- 20 july 2011 -rrb- was a german-born british painter .
known chiefly for his thickly impastoed portrait and figure paintings , he was widely considered the pre-eminent british artist of his time .
his works are noted for their psychological penetration , and for their often discomforting examination of the relationship between artist and model .
