Remembering Frank Auerbach, one of the leading artists of his generation, who has died aged 93

Auerbach reflects on his early aspirations, saying, "When I was young...the aim was to become marvellous and to be famous, which has totally fallen away by now."

He emphasizes the solitude of his work: "If I hadn't been forced by this interview to make these presumptuous and pretentious statements, I would have been innocently sloshing away in the room next door."

Auerbach’s career is defined by quiet perseverance: "He managed to be that rare thing: the artist who stood outside of the clatter of his own moment and yet produced some of the most enduring...observations of what it meant to be alive during his time."

Reflecting on his past, Auerbach describes his childhood escape from Nazi Germany: "Charlotte stitched a red cross on the larger items in his suitcase...for when he would marry."

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