Contemporary art exhibition vanishes within Freud’s antique-filled museum
Sometimes artists and exhibitions of art can try a bit too hard, be a bit too clever, and fall flat on their face as a result. Sadly, that’s what’s happened at the Freud Museum, where they invited an artist in to create a site-specific installation based around the story of Sigmund Freud’s long-serving housekeeper.
Paula Fichtl was the longtime housekeeper for the Freud family, initially serving as the live-in housekeeper in Vienna, and later coming to London with the family wh