Henryk Glicenstein

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Henryk Glicenstein

Enrico Glicenstein , even Enoch Glicenstein or Enrico Glicenstein (born 24. May 1870 in Turek ( Russian Empire ), died the thirtieth December 1942 in New York ) was a Polish - American sculptor , etcher and painter , who is also in Italy working was.

Life

Glicenstein went to Lodz at the age of 17 to learn a trade and already aroused general admiration here with a chess piece carved from slate. From 1889 to 1895 he studied at the Munich Art Academy with the sculptor Wilhelm von Rümann . In Munich he was awarded the Academy Prize twice; In 1895 he received the Rome Prize from the Berlin Academy of the Arts . As a result, Glicenstein moved to Rome, where he stayed until 1911, when he was appointed to the Academy in Warsaw as the successor to Xawery Dunikowski .

In January 1912, the Commeter Gallery in Hamburg showed some of Glicenstein's works, including the exotic nude “Sonnenanbeterin” (also called “Morgenland”) and the petite “Spring” (young girl with billy goat).

He only became better known in Germany through the special exhibition held in the Bremen Kunsthalle in January 1913, which was then shown with great success in other cities and revealed in Glicenstein a sculptor with extraordinary creative power and mastery of the material.

The King of Italy acquired the sculpture "Spear Bearer". In addition to his sculptural activity - Glicenstein worked in all materials and also tried his hand at lively painted sculpture - he used etching and painting in oil, watercolor and pastel; A series of his drawings, which he prefers to use in pen-line style, purely linearly treated, his similarly abruptly stylized etchings and his painted portraits and landscapes, which are treated in a coarse color scheme influenced by Cézanne, were exhibited in the Berlin Künstlerhaus in March 1914. Glicenstein also regularly sent the Munich Glass Palace (1894/97, 1901, 1909), the Munich (1903) and Berlin Secession (1907, 09, 12), the Roman Esposizione di Belle Arti, the International in Venice, the Paris Société nationale des beaux-arts (1904/7, 10). His work was shown at an exhibition of the Kraków Sztuka , the Vienna Hagenbund and the “Association of Polish Artists” in Kraków.

During the First World War, Glicenstein moved with his family to Switzerland; In 1928 he emigrated to the United States. He had planned to emigrate to Israel, but died beforehand as a result of a car accident. His son Emanuel Glicen Romano (Emanuel Glicenstein), who lived in Safed after emigrating from the USA , was also an important painter.

The Israel Bible Museum in Safed was known as the Glicenstein Museum until it was renamed in 1985.

The Abandoned , in: Ost und West , 1917

Literature (selection)

  • Glicenstein, Enrico , in: Encyclopaedia Judaica , 1971, Volume 7, Col. 618f.
  • Kohut , famous Israelite. Men u. Women, I 323.
  • Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums , LXVII (1903) 164/5, 175/7 (Friedberg).
  • Die Plastik, I (1911) 12, 103, plate 3, 100; III 13-17, panels 11-17.
  • The art, XIII, XVII (with illustrations). Exhibition catalog
  • Jewish Lexicon II, 1167.
  • Salman Schneur: Henryk Glicenstein as a draftsman. I: East and West. Illustrated monthly for all of Judaism. 17th vol., H. 11/12, 1917. Sp. 543-549 ( uni-frankfurt.de ).

Web links

Commons : Henryk Glicenstein  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Jewish Lexicon Volume II
  2. Hans Vollmer : Glicenstein, Enoch (Henryk) . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 253-254 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  3. Tamara Sztyma-Knasiecka: Glicenstein, Henryk . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 56, Saur, Munich a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22796-7 , p. 148 f.