Annie Freud
{{Short description|English poet and artist (born 1948)}}
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Annie Freud FRSL (born 1948) is an English poet and artist. She is the eldest child of the artist Lucian Freud,{{sfn|Davis|2015}} and his first wife Kitty Garman.{{sfn|Eden|2011}} Earlier in her career, she was a civil servant. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2024.{{cite web|url=https://rsliterature.org/announcement-of-2024-fellows-and-honorary-fellows/|title=Announcement of 2024 Fellows and Honorary Fellows|publisher=Royal Society of Literature|date=11 July 2024|access-date=14 July 2024}}
Biography
Freud's childhood has been described as being bohemian and very much within her father's circle.{{sfn|Davis|2015}} In 1963,{{sfn|Cunningham|2013}} aged 14, she posed nude for one of her father's pictures.{{sfn|Molony|2014}} Lucian Freud's biographer, Geordie Greig, has written of this event that her father asked her to "remove her clothes and teenage inhibitions". This was, Grieg said, "a momentous and controversial event in Annie’s life. Many felt it was reprehensible, if not downright immoral. Lucian Freud did not care. The question of whether it would damage his daughter simply did not occur to him".{{sfn|Cunningham|2013}} Annie Freud later stated that the sitting had been a "wonderful time" for her and that the resulting work,—Naked Child Laughing—was "the picture of me by Dad that I most admire".{{sfn|Cunningham|2013}}{{refn|This was not unusual; Lucian Freud asked six of his daughters, including Annie, and a son to pose naked for him on different occasions.{{sfn|Molony|2014}} On one such occasion, Annie Freud was pregnant.{{sfn|Nicholson|2018}}|group=note}} On another occasion, however, she has been described as finding it an "unsettling experience", and one in which "It was all very well for Dad to say it was all right. No one else felt that it was."{{sfn|Molony|2014}} She would pose for her father on other occasions—"11 or 12 times"{{sfn|Nicholson|2018}}—throughout her childhood.{{sfn|Cunningham|2013}}
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I write my poems as little films. I see it as a visual thing, in front of my eyes, and that tells me what the poem might be about...a mixture of one nature with another. It made me feel those were things that mattered to me.{{sfn|Cumming|2013|p=50}}|source=|align=left|width=30em|quoted=yes}}
The first works of art she produced were on fabric and clothes, before moving on to board and paper.{{sfn|Cumming|2013}} She was named by the Poetry Book Society as one of its Next Generation Poets for 2014 for her collection The Mirabelles; at 66 years old, Freud was the eldest contender.{{sfn|Shaffi|2014}}{{sfn|Clark|2014}}
The Arts Desk has described Freud as being "one of the very few" artists who are also poets, and vice versa.{{sfn|Cumming|2013}} Freud's style of poetry has been described as "dramatic", "shocking" and "outspoken".{{sfn|Robson|2017}} Her first collection of poetry was published by Picador in 2006;{{sfn|Freud|2016}} two others were published by them subsequently.{{sfn|Cumming|2013}}
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- {{cite news |last1=Cunningham |first1=Erin |title=New Book Gives A Rare Glimpse Into The Life of Lucian Freud |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-new-book-gives-a-rare-glimpse-into-the-life-of-lucian-freud |access-date=8 July 2018 |work=The Daily Beast |date=22 October 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180708170723/https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-new-book-gives-a-rare-glimpse-into-the-life-of-lucian-freud |archive-date=8 July 2018|url-status=live}}
- {{cite news |last1=Davis |first1=Joanna |title=Lucian Freud's daughter to give talk on her father's paintings |url=http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/leisure/stage/13765727.lucian-freuds-daughter-to-give-talk-on-her-fathers-paintings/ |access-date=8 July 2018 |work=Dorset Echo |date=17 September 2015 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180708172628/http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/leisure/stage/13765727.lucian-freuds-daughter-to-give-talk-on-her-fathers-paintings/ |url-status=live|archive-date=8 July 2018}}
- {{cite news |last1=Eden |first1=Richard |title=Princess Michael of Kent commands Julian Fellowes to write royal 'Downton Abbey' |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/8335714/Princess-Michael-of-Kent-commands-Julian-Fellowes-to-write-royal-Downton-Abbey.html |access-date=8 July 2018 |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=20 February 2011 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180708181420/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/8335714/Princess-Michael-of-Kent-commands-Julian-Fellowes-to-write-royal-Downton-Abbey.html |archive-date=8 July 2018}}
- {{cite news|last=Freud|first=Annie|title=A new year that changed me |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/30/new-year-publish-book |access-date=8 July 2016 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=30 December 2016 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180708175145/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/30/new-year-publish-book |archive-date=8 July 2018|url-status=live}}
- {{cite news|last=Molony|first=Julia|title=Lucian: A Portrait of the Artist as a Lifelong Womaniser |url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/lucian-a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-lifelong-womaniser-30353010.html |access-date=14 June 2014 |work=Belfast Telegraph |date=14 June 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180708165613/https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/lucian-a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-lifelong-womaniser-30353010.html |archive-date=8 July 2018|url-status=live}}
- {{cite news |last1=Nicholson |first1=Rebecca|title='He used to lash himself with his brush when he was angry': artists' models reveal all |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/feb/03/artists-models-paula-rego-lucian-freud-frank-auerbach |access-date=8 July 2018 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=8 July 2018 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180708174100/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/feb/03/artists-models-paula-rego-lucian-freud-frank-auerbach |archive-date=8 July 2018}}
- {{cite news |last1=Robson |first1=Beth |title=Annie Freud, great granddaughter of Sigmund gives poetry reading at Deal Town Hall |url=http://www.kentonline.co.uk/deal/news/annie-freud-to-give-poetry-128591/ |access-date=8 July 2018 |work=Kent Online |date=10 July 2017 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180708173722/http://www.kentonline.co.uk/deal/news/annie-freud-to-give-poetry-128591/ |archive-date=8 July 2018}}
- {{cite news |last1=Shaffi |first1=Sarah|url=http://www.thebookseller.com/news/twenty-next-generation-poets-decade-named |access-date=8 July 2018|title=Twenty 'Next Generation Poets' of the decade named |work=The Bookseller |date=11 September 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141201022732/http://www.thebookseller.com/news/twenty-next-generation-poets-decade-named |url-status=live|archive-date=1 December 2014}}
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Category:English people of Austrian-Jewish descent
Category:English women artists
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature