Gustav Glück (6 April 1871,

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– 18 November 1952,

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, Cal.) was an

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n art historian, the author of several major books on Dutch art. Glück became an Assistant at the Vienna

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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

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in 1938, and moved to Santa Monica in 1942. As a

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, 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

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in Deutschland, in Niederlanden, Frankreich'', 1933 * ''

Bruegel Brueghel or Bruegel () was the name of several Dutch/Flemish painters from the Brueghel family: * Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525–1569), the most famous member of the family and the only one to sign his paintings as "Bruegel" without the ''H'' ...

s Gemälde'', 1934 * ''Die Landschaften von D. D.

Rubens Sir Peter Paul Rubens (; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition ...

'', 1942

References

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* Austrian art historians 1871 births 1952 deaths {{Europe-art-historian-stub