Painter Frank Auerbach, who fled the Nazis and became a major artist, dies at 93

Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — Frank Auerbach, who fled Nazi Germany for Britain as a child and became one of the major artists of the 20th century, has died at age 93. Auerbach’s gallery said on Tuesday the artist died at his home in London the day before. He was born in Berlin in 1931 but fled at age 7 as part of a movement known as the the Kindertransport that rescued thousands of Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Europe. He lived and worked in the same London studio from 1954 until his death. In 2023, his painting “Mornington Crescent” sold at Sotheby’s for $7.1 million, a record for him.