Lucian Freud: A Titan of British Portraiture Lucian Michael Freud (1922 – 2011) remains one of the most influential and recognizable figures in twentieth-century British art, celebrated for his uncompromising realism and profound psychological insight. Born in Berlin to Ernst L. Freud, a prominent psychoanalyst and grandson of Sigmund Freud, Lucian’s early life was marked by upheaval—the Nazi persecution forced his family to flee Germ…