Lady Aurelia Young
Oscar Nemon, Part 1: Freud’s Sculptor
Summary
Lady Aurelia Young, daughter of the sculptor Oscar Nemon (1906–1985), presents two lectures about her father’s life. This first lecture covers Nemon’s journey from his birth in Croatia to his studies in Vienna and Brussels, eventually seeking sanctuary in England in the 1930s. Nemon became a renowned sculptor, creating works for royalty, presidents, prime ministers, and notable figures, including Sigmund Freud. Part 1 of 2.
Lady Aurelia Young
Aurelia Young is the author of Finding Nemon: The Extraordinary Life of the Outsider Who Sculpted the Famous (2019), the first biography of her father, the renowned sculptor Oscar Nemon. She grew up wandering in and out of her father’s studios at the family home in Oxford and later in London. Since his death in 1985, she has been researching her father’s life and gives talks about his life and work in the US, Paris, Brussels, Israel, and across the UK. She married George Young in 1964, an MP for forty-one years and now Lord Young of Cookham.
I’m glad to say they were always integral. He was brilliant at doing spectacles. No, he never added wire spectacles.
It’s about nine feet tall. He really wanted the “Humanity” to be outside the Knesset and wanted it to be enormous, as big as the Christ in Rio de Janeiro.
He was never able to finance absolutely anything. We were always very poor. I don’t know how he survived because the trouble about being a sculptor is that it’s so expensive to have works cast in bronze. No one ever wanted to pay for anything to be cast in bronze.
No, he didn’t work in stone. He had things cast in stone, but he didn’t work in stone. The only carving he ever did was the Freud in wood.