Frank Auerbach, leading figurative painter who fled Nazis, dies aged 93

Saved by a sponsorship that took him from Berlin to London as a child, the artist later fell in with Soho’s artistic crowd including Francis Bacon and Lucian FreudFrank Auerbach, the artist who arrived in Britain as a Jewish refugee fleeing Hitler’s Germany and went on to become one of the most significant figurative painters of the postwar era, has died aged 93.Over a career spanning seven decades, the British-German artist was known for his portraiture, as well as street scenes of