Screening to mark the release of this feature documentary about the artist Frank Auerbach.
FRANK AUERBACH: Life and Death, a film following the life of German-British painter Frank Auerbach. From his birth in Berlin in 1931 – rising from an orphaned refugee childhood – to his attainment of international acclaim. This intimate documentary film was written, produced, and directed by the artist’s son and frequent sitter, Jake Auerbach.
FRANK AUERBACH: Life and Death brings together a lavish selection of Auerbach’s paintings, enriched for the first time by a recently discovered archive that includes family photographs and never before seen early work. This imagery is interwoven with the three major filmed interviews granted by this fiercely private man, revealing the truth of a remarkable life.
Jake Auerbach’s films, including subjects such as Titian, Walter Sickert, Lucian Freud and Paula Rego, have been screened and broadcast around the world.
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