Lucian Freud was a British artist, famous for his portraits and self-portraits painted in an expressive neo-figurative style. He was born in Berlin, the grandson of the revolutionary psychologist Sigmund Freud, and thea son of an architect Ernst Freud and an art historian Lucie Brasch. Quite unruly to all the authorities, he was expelled from a few schools at an early age, and later on, his reckless behavior was said to be the cause of the fire in one of the schools. He drew attention to himself wherever he went with his companion - a pet hawk on his wrist or shoulder. Freud used to spend days going to diners, gambling, and spending time in the company of the British aristocrats, socialites, and artists. Freud belonged to the School of London , a group of artists dedicated to figurative painting.
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Egon Schiele The Complete Works. Schiele's body of work is noted for the intensity and the large number of self-portraits he produced. The twisted body shapes that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings make the artist a notable exponent of Expressionism. The most important collection of Schiele's work is housed in the Leopold Museum, Vienna. Egon Schiele was born in Tulln on the Danube. As a child, he attended the school run by the Stift Klosterneuburg, where his arts teacher K. Strauch recognized and supported Schiele's artistic talent.
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Henri Matisse was a French painter, draftsman, sculptor, and printmaker. Known for his use of color, his work is regarded as responsible for laying the foundation for modern plastic arts, along with the work of Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. At the age of 18, he went to study law, working as a court administrator. But, after a bout of appendicitis, during which his mother gave him paints and an easel to pass the time, he began drawing, soon leaving law school to pursue his art career, to the dismay of his father. He was exposed to the works of Van Gogh, who was practically unknown at the time, in and , when he visited his friend, painter John Peter Russell, in the island of Belle Ile, which totally changed his painting style.