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Gluck (painter)
Gluck (born Hannah Gluckstein; 13 August 1895 – 10 January 1978) was a British painter. Gluck joined the Lamorna artists' colony near Penzance, and was noted for their portraits and floral paintings, as well as a new design of picture-frame. Gluck's relationships with a number of women included one with Nesta Obermer: the artist's joint self-portrait with Obermer (Medallion) is viewed as an iconic lesbian statement. Gluck rejected any forename or honorific (such as "Miss" or "Mr"), and also used the names Peter and Hig.
Gluck was born into a wealthy Jewish family in London, England. Gluck's father was Joseph Gluckstein, whose brothers Isidore and Montague had founded J. Lyons and Co., a chain of high street tea rooms and a catering empire. Their father was Samuel Gluckstein (1821–1873), co-founder of Salmon & Gluckstein (by the turn of the century the largest tobacco retailer in the country), and their mother was Samuel’s Dutch-born wife Hannah Joseph (1819–1895), after whom the painter was named.
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. Gluck's younger brother, Sir Louis Gluckstein, became a Conservative politician.
Gluck was a pupil at the Dame School in Swiss Cottage until 1910, and then at St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith until 1913. That year, Gluck was awarded a Royal Drawing Society silver star. Gluck attended St John's Wood School of Art between 1913 and 1916, after which the artist moved to the west Cornwall valley of Lamorna, joining the artists' colony 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 living together in London, originally in a flat on the Finchley Road, then in a studio in Earls Court. For a time, they also maintained a studio in Lamorna.
Gluck was supported financially by family money, although Gluck had limited control over the capital.
In the artistic community of Lamorna, Gluck began to adopt a masculine appearance and to defy fashion and gender norms. In 1916, Alfred Munnings painted Gluck smoking a pipe. Gluck insisted on being known only by that mononym, "no prefix, suffix, or quotes", and when an art society of which Gluck was vice president identified Gluck as "Miss Gluck" on its letterhead, Gluck resigned. In 1923 Romaine Brooks painted Gluck as Peter, a Young English Girl. Gluck identified with no artistic school or movement and showed work only in solo exhibitions.
Gluck's work was displayed in a 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 look like part of the architecture of the room.
In the 1920s and 30s, Gluck became known for portraits and floral paintings; the latter were favoured by the interior decorator Syrie Maugham. In October 1924, Gluck first had a solo exhibition, of fifty-six paintings, at the Dorien Leigh Galleries in South Kensington, London. During 1925 Gluck painted a series of works depicting theatre scenes, which formed part of the 1926 Stage and Country exhibition at the Fine Art Society in London. That year Gluck's father bought Bolton House in West Hampstead where Gluck, with a housekeeper, a cook and a maid, lived until 1939.
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Gluck (painter)
Gluck (born Hannah Gluckstein; 13 August 1895 – 10 January 1978) was a British painter. Gluck joined the Lamorna artists' colony near Penzance, and was noted for their portraits and floral paintings, as well as a new design of picture-frame. Gluck's relationships with a number of women included one with Nesta Obermer: the artist's joint self-portrait with Obermer (Medallion) is viewed as an iconic lesbian statement. Gluck rejected any forename or honorific (such as "Miss" or "Mr"), and also used the names Peter and Hig.
Gluck was born into a wealthy Jewish family in London, England. Gluck's father was Joseph Gluckstein, whose brothers Isidore and Montague had founded J. Lyons and Co., a chain of high street tea rooms and a catering empire. Their father was Samuel Gluckstein (1821–1873), co-founder of Salmon & Gluckstein (by the turn of the century the largest tobacco retailer in the country), and their mother was Samuel’s Dutch-born wife Hannah Joseph (1819–1895), after whom the painter was named.
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. Gluck's younger brother, Sir Louis Gluckstein, became a Conservative politician.
Gluck was a pupil at the Dame School in Swiss Cottage until 1910, and then at St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith until 1913. That year, Gluck was awarded a Royal Drawing Society silver star. Gluck attended St John's Wood School of Art between 1913 and 1916, after which the artist moved to the west Cornwall valley of Lamorna, joining the artists' colony 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 living together in London, originally in a flat on the Finchley Road, then in a studio in Earls Court. For a time, they also maintained a studio in Lamorna.
Gluck was supported financially by family money, although Gluck had limited control over the capital.
In the artistic community of Lamorna, Gluck began to adopt a masculine appearance and to defy fashion and gender norms. In 1916, Alfred Munnings painted Gluck smoking a pipe. Gluck insisted on being known only by that mononym, "no prefix, suffix, or quotes", and when an art society of which Gluck was vice president identified Gluck as "Miss Gluck" on its letterhead, Gluck resigned. In 1923 Romaine Brooks painted Gluck as Peter, a Young English Girl. Gluck identified with no artistic school or movement and showed work only in solo exhibitions.
Gluck's work was displayed in a 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 look like part of the architecture of the room.
In the 1920s and 30s, Gluck became known for portraits and floral paintings; the latter were favoured by the interior decorator Syrie Maugham. In October 1924, Gluck first had a solo exhibition, of fifty-six paintings, at the Dorien Leigh Galleries in South Kensington, London. During 1925 Gluck painted a series of works depicting theatre scenes, which formed part of the 1926 Stage and Country exhibition at the Fine Art Society in London. That year Gluck's father bought Bolton House in West Hampstead where Gluck, with a housekeeper, a cook and a maid, lived until 1939.
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