British painter and draughtsman Lucian Michael Freud was born, December 8, 1922 in Berlin ❦ Freud specialized in figurative art. One of the foremost 20th-century portraitists. He was the son of Jewish architect Ernst L. Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud.His early career as a painter was influenced by surrealism, but by the early 1950s his often stark and … Continue reading Lucian Michael Freud [1866-1944]