Hannah Gluckstein

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Hannah Gluckstein , also Gluck (born August 13, 1895 in London , † January 10, 1978 in Steyning , Sussex ), was an English painter .

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Gluckstein was born in London to a wealthy Jewish family. Her younger brother was the conservative politician Sir Louis Gluckstein . She was a student at the Dame School in Swiss Cottage, London until 1910 and at the St Pauls Girls School in Hammersmith until 1913 . In 1913 she was awarded by the Royal Drawing Society . From 1913 to 1916 she trained in art at St John's Wood Art School in London. She then traveled to Lamorna , Cornwall , where she founded an artists' colony with other landscape painters. Her father gave her a trust fund in 1916, which enabled her to live independently. At this point she had cut her hair, shortened her name to "Gluck" and was dressed exclusively male. She bought a studio in Cornwall, where she met the American artist Romaine Brooks in 1923 and both portrayed each other. Gluck did not identify with any artistic school or movement and only showed works in solo exhibitions. In 1932, the Fine Art Society in London created a special “Gluck Room” for their pictures. Her work was shown in frames that she invented and patented in 1932. Gluck is known for her naturalistic portraits and still lifes of flowers, inspired by the flower arrangements made by decorator Constance Spry, with whom she lived from 1932 to 1936. In the 1950s she became dissatisfied with the paints available to artists at the time and persuaded the British Standards Institution to create a new standard for oil paints. She was a member of the Royal Society of Arts and from 1955 to 1968 painted portraits of various judges, including that of Sir Cyril Salmon, Baron Salmon , one of her cousins.

Solo exhibitions

  • 1924: Dorien Leigh Galleries, London
  • 1926, 1932, 1937, 1973 and 1980: Fine Art Society, London

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SURNAME Gluckstein, Hannah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luck
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1978
Place of death Steyning , Sussex