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Oscar Nemon sculpting Sigmund Freud
Talk
Freud’s Sculptor: The Life and Works of Oscar Nemon
16 Oct 2018
Cost of entry
Full Price £11
Friend of the Museum £9
Concession £9
Address
- 20 Maresfield Gardens
- Hampstead
- London
England - NW3 5SX
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Finchley Road
- Nearest tube: Finchley Road, 5 min walk from Museum
- Finchley Road & Frognal , 5 min walk from Museum
An illustrated talk by Aurelia Young upon the launch of her new book 'Finding Nemon', a biography of her father.
About
In 1931, a Jewish boy from Croatia, persuaded the reluctant Sigmund Freud to sit for him in Vienna. This young man was Oscar Nemon.
Daughter of Oscar Nemon and author of Finding Nemon (release date September 2018), Aurelia Young will tell the story of her father’s life.
The bust Nemon made of Freud in 1931 can be seen in the study at the Freud Museum. Freud was generous with his precious time and sat for Nemon a second time in 1936 for the statue which now stands at the junction of Fitzjohn’s Avenue and Belsize Lane, Hampstead. He would go on to sculpt many of Freud’s disciples, including Sandor Ferenczi, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Melanie Klein, Ernest Jones and Donald Winnicott.
Nemon lived in Vienna and Brussels before seeking refuge in England in the 1930s. Whilst in England, he sculpted the Queen, Winston Churchill and many other prominent politicians of the 20th-century.
