Gluck, 1895-1978: Her Biography

Gluck, 1895-1978: Her Biography

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Gluck was born Hannah Gluckstein in 1895, into the family that founded the Lyons catering empire. She was a rebel. She insisted on her own monosyllabic name. She dressed as a man, in clothes designed by Victor Stiebel and Elsa Schiapearelli. She had passionalte affairs with society women. She acknowledged no influences on her painting and exhibited her work only in "one-man" shows. In this biography Diana Souhami interviews the people, the events and the art which made up Gluck's life; unpublished letters, diaries and manuscripts are mined to reveal not only an extraordinary life, but also a much undervalued artist.

Author: Diana Souhami
Format: Paperback, 336 pages, 153mm x 234mm, 641 g
Published: 1995, Rivers Oram Press, United Kingdom
Genre: Individual Artists / Art Monographs

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Gluck was born Hannah Gluckstein in 1895, into the family that founded the Lyons catering empire. She was a rebel. She insisted on her own monosyllabic name. She dressed as a man, in clothes designed by Victor Stiebel and Elsa Schiapearelli. She had passionalte affairs with society women. She acknowledged no influences on her painting and exhibited her work only in "one-man" shows. In this biography Diana Souhami interviews the people, the events and the art which made up Gluck's life; unpublished letters, diaries and manuscripts are mined to reveal not only an extraordinary life, but also a much undervalued artist.