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Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)

Oscar Nemon (1906–1985)

Royal College of Psychiatrists

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
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Nemon created a full-length, seated portrait of Freud for his eightieth birthday in 1936. Originally intended for the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, it was never installed in Austria due to the Anschluss. Instead, it was unveiled at the New York Psychoanalytic Society in 1947. It is the same as the one photographed here. Nemon enlarged the portrait sculpture to create an over life-size, seated Freud.

A scheme by Dr Donald Winnicott led to this being cast in bronze and unveiled near Freud's London home and the Tavistock Clinic in 1970. Both Freud and Nemon fled the Nazis and came to London in 1938. On 4th June 2018, 80 years to the day since Freud left, another larger-than-life bronze of the same statue was unveiled at the Medical University of Vienna.

Royal College of Psychiatrists

London

Title

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)

Medium

plaster

Measurements

H 72 x W 55 x D 49 cm

Accession number

RCPSYCH/Z/S/004

Acquisition method

donated by Margaret Torrie, founder of Cruse Bereavement Care and widow of psychiatrist Alfred Torrie, 1977

Work type

Sculpture

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Royal College of Psychiatrists

21 Prescot Street, London, Greater London E1 8BB England

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Oscar Nemon

1906–1985

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