Frank Auerbach

Frank Auerbach, leading figurative painter who fled Nazis, dies aged 93

Saved by the Kindertransport scheme, the artist later fell in with Soho’s artistic crowd including Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud

Tim Jonze

Tuesday 12 November 2024

Frank Auerbach, the artist who arrived in Britain under the Kindertransport scheme and went on to become one of the most significant figurative painters of the postwar era, has died aged 93.