Gustav Glück (6 April 1871,
Vienna
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– 18 November 1952,
Santa Monica
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, Cal.) was an
Austria
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art historian, the author of several major books on Dutch art.
Glück became an Assistant at the Vienna
Kunsthistorisches Museum 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
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in Deutschland, in Niederlanden, Frankreich'', 1933
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Bruegels Gemälde'', 1934
* ''Die
Landschaften von D. D.
Rubens'', 1942
References
External links
Entryat th
Dictionary of Art Historians*
Austrian art historians
1871 births
1952 deaths
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