A chronology of selfportrait spanning frauds life and career from age 16 to his early eightys. Its an extraordinary journey through both his process of aging the development of the artist from a young boy to old man but also you really get on with the skin of his practice and how he developed as an artist the changes in his painting the style the technique. By meticulously charting his own image lucian freud places himself in the company of the great masters of selfportrait dhruva rembrandt and bingo. This drawing for it made of himself as a student shows the young artist in shock or is it ecstasy a few years later his 1st major selfportrait fashions him as the great painter he hopes to become. Born in 1922 in berlin as the grandson of psychoanalysis pioneer Sigmund Freud lucian and his jewish family fled germany to britain the year of hitlers rise to power. Freuds mature self portraits reveal a painter confident in style who depicts themself playfully eerily. Or in self mocking. He sometimes uses a mirror placed the viewer level below his imperious figure. This is though hes trying to. Pitch himself against his developing technique and also in the older age he was incredibly unsentimental he used to say that he wanted to paint himself to death and he has this extraordinary unflinching scrutiny on to his own aging flesh and seems to be really preoccupied in how to surrender this capture this and translate this into paint its an extraordinary painting that on the one hand so this seems to suggest the frailty and the vulnerability in terms of his aging body but also his gesture his holding up his palette night its sort of quite victorious. And his body of work unify the physical with the psychological thats what made him a master and. Incidentally lucian freud was the worlds most expensive living artist at the beginning of this millennium and speaking of expensive art this old painting was found in a kitchen in france recently if it hung above a cooking hot plate would you believe for decades fortunately it was spotted by an auctioneer who was conducting a House Clearance its called christ mocked by the 13th century foreign time office boy and has just 24000000 euros at auction in paris and to think it nearly went into the bin. Next week will be the 30th anniversary of the fall of the boat and wall so today we begin a series featuring artistic people from the former east germany telling us about their personal experiences or suspicious night for the act yes fry hoff november the 9th 989. 00 saw the premiere of the film he starred in coming out which was a milestone in so many ways his own coming out and the fact that the official east german film company a day for a made a film about gay people. Off the bio top the walking through the city ive often caught myself looking at the ground around me and thinking here at the latest they have shot me. For 41 years germany was a divided country from 1961 until 989 a wall even split berlin into the western half was part of democratic west germany the eastern half belong to communist east germany. Guarded its borders zealously anyone who tried to escape was arrested or shot homosexuals were often harassed and denounced. High who played the lead in the 1st east german film about homosexuality coming out the film had its premiere in east berlin exactly on november 9th 1909. Cannot fulfill what a movie goer exiting the cinema was really euphoric and said this entire country needs a coming out. My whole place filled a closeted gay teacher the film tells the love story between him and a man called mathias. Due to popular demand the film was screened twice at its premiere so those involved were unaware that history was being made at the berlin wall the only heard rumors. The number was because we kept looking. Out of then we saw how car they was full of cars heading west towards one car after another all driving towards the west with the with. Only after the premiere party at around 4 am didnt go to the Border Crossing which was here on behind my street he saw with his own eyes that the border was open. Called the mother good thing for me because you can walk freely across the bridge but i only went to the middle where the white line was which marked the real border line i said somebody pinch me i just cant believe that im really standing here on this white line. On november 9th 1909 this Border Crossing was the 1st through which thousands of east germans entered west berlin freely without control. For me so i voted with all the wall my world got bigger a whole lot bigger and i really enjoyed that but there were always moments standing on the wrong or on a boat in Niagara Falls when i get teary eyed i just cant believe that i was actually standing there. Coming out won a silver bear at the 1990 berglund International Film festival in west berlin director hina cottle thought long and hard to make the film. Was a life that will go but it was a big relief that this film could finally be made after so many years we all celebrated that as a huge victory with lindsay who filed. The fall of the will mark the end of his repression as a gay man living under the east german regime offensive this the month officially the state couldnt legally take action against gays though attempts were made and with the advent of hiv aids they naturally stepped up the controls for the east german state feared the contagion of the through this all for those they even consider interning gays at camps and conducted more raids. So you can only be glad if the wall fell i mean tyler come on wolf was and that such perfidious ideas were never realized. Even if they were a few visits in this it would be legal in this one because its for the artist i hope still tours the world with coming out he aims to be a role model. For this month if theres a form and i simply stand there and say look at me im going on 60 ive lived my life and i had a love life. In my mind and for that im very grateful when the president paul when i was even able to get married and have a charming husband. Who is not enough alone can see the night when the 9th and the 10th of november 1909 was a very important moment in my life to go a real turning point for life this is you know maybe there was a time when you also had the feeling you were witnessing World History being made. And its something i sincerely wish everyone could experience and well have more stories about how artists from the east experience november the 9th 1909 coming up this week and next week on d w there are lots of special programs marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall including one about an art work which is a kind of flying carpet containing wishes from 30000. 00 people from around the world. Now its time for 100 german must reads featuring the best german books that are being translated into english and today a bit of an exception because the nazi on the balboa by his in the rot couldnt get published in germany but was actually rejected 60 times by publishers here because the fictional protectionist is a nazi who appears to get away with murder it was 1st a success in america in the early seventys eventually being published in its original german in 1977 to to know that here in germany its a board to make talks. Ok its not really that bad but making jokes about nazis was taboo here in germany for decades even if the person making the joke was a holocaust survivor. And. Author and holocaust survivor ed got his a lot pissed off a lot of people here in germany with this book the nazi and the barber its the story of 2 young friends son of a prostitute whose father is who knows but definitely arion and his buddy finkelstein the son of a jewish barber now if you went by stereotypes you probably get them to make stuff up. My friend its it was blonde and blue i had a straight nose and finally shaped lips and teeth i on the other hand marks sure its illegitimate though poor area and son of mean i should have had black hair frog eyes nose bobus lips and bad teeth. Its father time finkelstein teaches the 2 boys about jewish traditions and how to cut hair now this is important because everything that marx learns from his buddies that will later save his life. First though moxon joins the s. S. And becomes a mass murderer he possibly even kills his own friend its sick after the war marx gets away with his crimes by pretending to be its a talk about chutzpah. Not the max immigrants to israel and opens a barber shop there disguised as a holocaust survivor but hes haunted by his lies and his crimes the darker the subject matter the more wicked the author is humor has in lots novel tackles anti semitism the holocaust the stuffiness of postwar germany and israels early struggle to survive. When he wrote it in the early 1970 s. No german publisher would take the risk of printing a nazi satire when the book did come out eventually in germany isnt allowed gave a public reading here at this berlin bookshop the next day the windows were smashed eventually the nazi in the barber became a global bestseller but even today they need a lot of dark humor to enjoy it. And youll find reports on the other 99 on must reads on our website at the w dot com slash culture so you can take your choice theres something that every taste thats it for this edition thanks for watching. Out for the. Secret drugs trials we. 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Maturing because the murder starts nov 5th on a w. 2 fronts tear antone and tears a sea of distance of those of us im sitting on the terrace in twilight its peaceful my 3 grandchildren sleep on trouble as our dad died when i was 8 frances age germany was split in 2 and remain divided for decades and it is my given what when your mother was born in 1969 the wall was already 8 years old and you know my grandchildren were born after the wall fell born in a marina 5 june and a wonderful time a time of great joy. 3 generations one family on a journey through a recent german history. Of. Our family and us starts november 6th on d w. This is the w. News and these are our top stories. As president elect albert of finance his and outgoing leader but its a mockery you have met to discuss a smooth transition of power since left and that is one sunday selection of the valley to end austerity measures introduced by his predecessor. 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