Frank Auerbach, who escaped Nazi Germany on the eve of the Holocaust and grew up in England, where he became one of the most significant artists of his generation, an abstract painter known especially for the streetscapes and portraits that emerged from his obsessive brushwork,

Known for his unyielding seven-day-a-week work schedule, he returned again and again to the same models and London street scenes.

Frank Auerbach, who fled Nazi Germany as a child and became one of Britain's leading 20th-century artists alongside Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon, has died in London aged 93, his

Auerbach's paintings of a select group of models redefined portraiture, a genre that has traditionally lent itself to psychological clarity and close attention to detail. But star

A Kindertransport refugee, Auerbach's profound experiences shaped his lifelong work, which became emblematic of a resilience that deeply influenced contemporary figurative painting.