AboutFreddy Fuchs, who, as a young student in London, was paid the rare compliment of being awared a scholarship of four years, at the esteemed Slade School of Art. Here he was taught by Lucien Freud and William Coldstream. The only trace of the teaching is one he shares with Freud, an unremitting fidelity to figurative painting.
Fuchs has lived in Italy since the sixties, and his work attests to his "Italianate-ness" whether in his landscapes, or figures, or still life. This comes about because Fuchs has by osmosis absorbed the latin ethos.
The influences one sees of Macchiaiuoli, of Sironi, or Campigli, and certainly Morandi has been so subtly absorbed that he has been able to evolve a personal style and an individual sense of colour. Fuchs has always had passion for the old Masters, and it is his scholarship in this that has kept him steadfastly related to the image.
The last paintings bears witness to his determination to affirm the beauty in the domestic scene and of the world around him.
Presentation by Dario Taroni, 2004
