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Frank Auerbach One of Britain's leading post-war painters, Frank Auerbach is among the most internationally acclaimed and collected of living artists from Britain. The painting style of Frank Auerbach is both compactly expressionistic and highly individual. Determined by his desire to capture the spirit and reality of people and places, his paintings, which he works and re-works, produce a powerful surface impact. Auerbach's painting include landscapes, figure studies and Old Master inspired works. In particular …

…both these artists, among others, had a great influence on Auerbach's early development. He studied at Borough Polytechnic (1948), St Martin's School of Art (1948-52) and the Royal College of Art (1952-55). He had his first exhibition at Beaux Arts Gallery in 1956. In 1978 the Arts Council organised an exhibition surveying twenty-six years of work at the Hayward Gallery. Auerbach represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1986 and has shown regularly since 1965 at Marlborough Fine Art.