1. Lucian Freud

2. Lucian Freud was born in Germany and was the grandson of Sigmund Freud. Him and his family fled Germany during the rise of Nazism, moving to England.

3. Freud spent most of his career in Paddington, London, an inner-city area that greatly reflected Freud's often sombre and melancholic works of art. In the start of his career, he was principally interested in drawing

4. In 1943, the poet and editor Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu, commissioned Freud to illustrate a book of poems called The Glass Tower.

5. Freud's early paintings, are often associated with German Expressionism, and surrealism because of his depiction of people, plants and animals in unusual context. From the 1950s, he began to work in portraiture, often nudes. By the middle of the decade he developed a much more free style, using large brushes, with an intense emphasis of the texture and color of flesh.

6. Freud's subjects, were often the people in his life; friends, family, fellow painters, lovers, and children. He said, "The subject matter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement.

7. Freud began a painting by first drawing in charcoal on the canvas. He then applied paint to a small area of the canvas, and gradually worked outward from that point. For new models, he would start with the head as a means of "getting to know" the person, then painted the rest of the figure, eventually returning to the head as he gained more comprehension of the model.

8. Freud said, I paint people, not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be. He has painted fellow artist Francis Bacon, and even Kate Moss.

9. Freud is rumored to have fathered as many as forty children. Fourteen children have been identified, two from Freud's first marriage and 12 by various mistresses.

10. Freud died in London on July 20, 2011