Catalogue description Lucie and Ernst Freud Papers

Freud, Lucie

Lucie Brasch was born in 1896, the daughter and heiress of the wealthy merchant Joseph Brasch and his wife Elise. She studied classical philology and art history in Munich, where she met the architecture student Ernst Freud, Sigmund's youngest son. The couple married on 18 May 1920 and lived in Berlin until 1933, when they fled to London. Lucie had three sons with Ernst: Stephen Gabriel Freud (b. 1921), Lucian Freud (named for his mother) (b. 1922) and Clement Freud (b. 1924). She died in 1989.