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Gluck (painter)

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Gluck's work was displayed in a special frame which the artist had invented and patented in 1932. The "Gluck frame" rose from the wall in three tiers, each tier smaller than the one behind it. Painted or papered to match the wall on which it was hung, it was designed to make the artist's paintings
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there. Gluck moved to Cornwall with fellow art student, and partner, E M Craig, (1893-1968), who was known by just their surname Craig. Little is known about Craig, but the relationship was significant to Gluck, who often spoke in later life of how the two had run away together. By 1918, they were
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Gluck's American-born mother, Francesca Halle, was training to be an opera singer when she met her husband to be, a childless widower twice her age; they married six weeks after meeting. She was subject to what were then called nervous breakdowns, and in later life was confined to a mental asylum.
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In the 1950s, Gluck became dissatisfied with the paints available for artists and began a "paint war" to improve their quality. Gluck felt that some paints were grainy in consistency, or looked 'dead' on the canvas. Gluck also said that some paints changed their apparent colour according to the
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In the artist's seventies, Gluck returned to painting, using special handmade paints that were supplied free by a manufacturer who had taken Gluck's exacting standards as a challenge. Gluck mounted another well-received solo show of fifty-two paintings from across their whole career.
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While Gluck's early artwork was positively received by critics and the public through the 1920s and 1930s, it later fell from popularity. As the painter's romantic relationship with Nesta came to an end, so too did Gluck's artistic career. There followed a thirty-year period of
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It was Gluck's first exhibition since 1944, and also the last. Gluck's last major work, begun in 1970 and completed in 1973, was a painting of a decomposing fish head on the beach titled
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In 2017-2018, the painter was the subject of an exhibition at the Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, an accompanying book of the same title (
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In 1980, two years after the artist's death, The Fine Art Society hosted a six-week memorial exhibition of 45 of Gluck's paintings.
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In the artistic community of Lamorna, Gluck began to adopt a masculine appearance and to defy fashion and gender norms. In 1916,
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In the 1920s and 30s, Gluck became known for portraits and floral paintings; the latter were favoured by the interior decorator
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In 1977, Gluck donated 57 items, including clothing, accessories and pieces relating to the time spent in Tunisia, to the
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July-August 1998 saw a "a small but beautifully curated exhibition of some of the most memorable paintings" by Gluck, in
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Who's who in Jewish History: After the Period of the Old Testament' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995) p. 240
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In 1937, Gluck had a third solo show at the Fine Art Society. The exhibition of thirty-three paintings, including
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designed and built a studio extension to the house. The following year Gluck had another solo exhibition,
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In May 1936, Gluck spent a weekend with Nesta Obermer at the Obermer family home, Mill House at
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featuring the authors and curators Martin Pel, Dr Jeffrey Horsley and Prof Amy de la Haye.
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for war-time service, and moved to a cottage close to the Obermer home in Plumpton.
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between 1913 and 1916, after which the artist moved to the west Cornwall valley of
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In September 1939, Gluck closed Bolton House, which was then requisitioned by the
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Virago reprinted the classic 1928 novel eight times in as many years, making
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painted Gluck smoking a pipe. Gluck insisted on being known only by that
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where Gluck, with a housekeeper, a cook and a maid, lived until 1939.
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By 1928, Gluck was sharing Bolton House with the author and socialite
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perhaps one of the most famous depictions of a lesbian relationship.
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direction of the brushstroke, and that some took too long to dry.
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Paintings by Gluck are held in major British public collections.
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in London. That year Gluck's father bought Bolton House in
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in Britain and several other countries on 13 August 2023.
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Gluck died in 1978 in Steyning, Sussex at the age of 82.
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living together in London, originally in a flat on the
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A 1942 self-portrait was donated by the artist to the
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Foundation on the occasion of the 2018 centenary of
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New Haven: Yale University Press. 589:in 2019 "with funds provided by the 456:In 1944, Gluck had an exhibition at 1318:Alumni of St John's Wood Art School 1288:glbtq encyclopedia project archives 1167:"Gluck - National Portrait Gallery" 1142:"Gluck - National Portrait Gallery" 916:from the original on 26 August 2017 382:. 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Index


Romaine Brooks
Steyning
St Paul's Girls' School
St John's Wood School of Art
British painter
honorific
Lamorna
artists' colony
Penzance
Nesta Obermer
Jewish family in London
Isidore
Montague
J. Lyons and Co.
Samuel Gluckstein
Salmon & Gluckstein
Louis Gluckstein
Conservative
Dame School
Swiss Cottage
St Paul's Girls' School
Hammersmith
Royal Drawing Society
St John's Wood School of Art
Lamorna
artists' colony
Finchley Road
Earls Court
Alfred Munnings

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