Simon happy
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Simon Glücklich (born March 27, 1863 in Bielitz , Austrian Silesia , † March 29, 1943 in Munich ) was an Austrian painter who worked in Munich.
life and work
Simon Glücklich, son of the decorator painter Leo Glücklich, attended high school in Bielitz and then studied from 1880 to 1890 at the Vienna Art Academy , from 1885 to 1890 with the genre and landscape painter Leopold Carl Müller (1834-1892). In October 1890 he moved to Munich, where he remained settled until the end of his life. He married Wilhelmine Christine, born on May 8, 1917 in Bremen. Siedenburg, (1874-1951).
In his life he undertook two formative study trips, which took him to Northern Italy after 1890 and to the Baltic Sea in 1920 . Initially devoted to genre painting, he later occupied himself with the representation of mythological scenes as well as landscape and still life painting . While his works at the turn of the century are often close to the cheerful, stylized view of nature of Art Nouveau , which prevailed at the time , in which man and landscape represent a happy unit, Glücklich developed over time into an outstanding painter of society, nudes and portraits , in particular of the nobility and the upper middle class.
In 1890, Emperor Franz Joseph I acquired the painting Kinderquartet in the exhibition of the Vienna Künstlerhaus and in 1898 the painting Das Bouquet . In his native Bielitz, he painted genii and muses on the front wall of the large shooting house hall . In 1905 Glücklich received the gold medal at the international art exhibition in Munich. Works by Simon Glücklich are in the collections of important German museums. His works are in international demand and fetch prices of up to 40,000 euros on the art market.
Selection of works
- When knitting (1891) - Hamburger Kunsthalle , Hamburg
- At the toilet (around 1928) - Neue Pinakothek , Munich
- Portrait of Alois Senefelder (1912) - Lenbachhaus , Munich
- Old woman sewing (around 1926) - Lenbachhaus, Munich
- Spring Anthem (1894)
- 7 paintings, 2 drawings, Museum Bielsko-Biała
literature
- Happy Simon . 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. 268 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art . Munich painters in the 19th century Volume 2, Bruckmann, Munich 1972,
- Susanna Partsch: Happy, Simon . 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. 256.
Web links
- Biographical memorial book of Munich Jews (1933–1945) (name must be entered)
- Artist studio Simon Glücklich , Carl Teufel in the picture index of art and architecture
- Artnet online database
Remarks
- ↑ Thomas Just, Irmgard Pangerl: Kaiser Franz Joseph and the first exhibition of the Secessionists in 1898 . In: Wiener Geschichtsblätter 61, 2006, pp. 59–66, here p. 65 ( digitized version ).
- ^ The paintings of the 19th century in the Hamburger Kunsthalle. Catalog . 1993.
- ^ German artists from Marées to Slevogt, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Neue Pinakothek. Inventory catalog . 2003; Entry in the museum database .
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SURNAME | Happy Simon |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-German painter, active in Munich |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1863 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bielitz , Austrian Silesia , Austrian Empire |
DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 1943 |
Place of death | Munich |