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German-born Frank Auerbach garnered critical attention in London for his large-scale figurative paintings, described by many as "sculptural" due to the many layers of paint heaped on the canvas. By the mid-1950s Auerbach was experimenting with printmaking using a similar range of representational subjects - portraits, nudes, and urban landscapes. He is often considered in the context of painters Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, who are similarly renowned for their distorted and even violent portrayals of the human figure.