Simon happy

Saint Cecilia accompanied by angels, 1886

Spanish dancer , official catalog of the VIII. International Art Exhibition in the Kgl. Glass Palace in Munich , 1901

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

Commons : Simon Glücklich - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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 .

personal data
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

[1] 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 ).

[2] The paintings of the 19th century in the Hamburger Kunsthalle. Catalog . 1993.

[3] German artists from Marées to Slevogt, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Neue Pinakothek. Inventory catalog . 2003; Entry in the museum database .