Frank Auerbach
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Frank Helmut Auerbach was a German-born British painter. Born in Germany to Jewish parents, he became a naturalised British subject in 1947. He is considered one of the leading names in the School of
Head of E.O.W. IV, 1961, National Gallery of Scotland
Iris Origo
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Dame Iris Margaret Origo, DBE was an English-born biographer and writer. She lived in Italy and devoted much of her life to improving the Tuscan estate at La Foce, near Montepulciano, which she bought
Frank Auerbach
…With rising Nazi persecution of Jews such as themselves, his parents sent him to Britain in 1939, one of six such children sponsored by British writer Iris Origo. His parents stayed behind in Germany, and were murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942. In Britain, Auerbach became a pupil at Bunce Court…
Antonio and Iris Origo with baby daughter Donata, at La Foce in 1943