Gustav Glück (6 April 1871,
Vienna
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– 18 November 1952,
Santa Monica
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Austria
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art historian
Art history is the study of artistic works made throughout human history. Among other topics, it studies art’s formal qualities, its impact on societies and cultures, and how artistic styles have changed throughout history.
Traditionally, the ...
, the author of several major books on Dutch art.
Glück became an Assistant at the Vienna
Kunsthistorisches Museum
The Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien ( "Vienna Museum of art history, Art History", often referred to as the "Museum of Fine Arts, Vienna") is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on the Vienna Ring Road, i ...
in 1900, Curator and ''de facto'' Director in 1911, and Director in name in 1916. He resigned the directorship of the Vienna Gallery in 1931, moved from Vienna to
London
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in 1938, and moved to Santa Monica in 1942. As a
Festschrift
In academia, a ''Festschrift'' (; plural, ''Festschriften'' ) is a book honoring a respected person, especially an academic, and presented during their lifetime. It generally takes the form of an edited volume, containing contributions from the h ...
, his students published a two-volume annotated collection of his periodical articles in 1933.
[Ellis K. Waterhouse, 'Dr. Gluck's Festschrift', ''The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs'', Vol. 63, No. 364 (Jul., 1933), p. 45, reviewing ''Gesammelte Aufsätze. I-Rubens, Van Dyck und Ihr Kreis. II-Aus Drei Jahrhunderten Europäischer Malerei'', 2 vols.]
Literary works
* ''Die Kunst der
Renaissance
The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and sur ...
in Deutschland, in Niederlanden, Frankreich'', 1933
* ''
Bruegels Gemälde'', 1934
* ''Die
Landschaften von D. D.
Rubens
Sir Peter Paul Rubens ( ; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens' highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of clas ...
'', 1942
References
External links
Entryat th
Dictionary of Art Historians
Austrian art historians
1871 births
1952 deaths
Austrian emigrants to the United States
Writers from Vienna
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