About Gustav Glück
Lived 1871 – 1952 (aged 81). Gustav Glück was an Austrian art historian.
Gustav Glück (6 April 1871, Vienna – 18 November 1952, Santa Monica, Cal.) was an Austrian art historian, the author of several major books on Dutch art.
Glück became an Assistant at the Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum in 1900, Curator and de facto Director in 1911, and Director in name in 1916. He resigned the directorship of the Vienna Gallery in 1931, moved from Vienna to London in 1938, and moved to Santa Monica in 1942. As a Festschrift, his students published a two-volume annotated collection of his periodical articles in 1933.
Literary works Die Kunst der Renaissance in Deutschland, in Niederlanden, Frankreich, 1933 Bruegels Gemälde, 1934 Die Landschaften von D. D. Rubens, 1942
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Who was Gustav Glück?
art historian (1871-1952)
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Gustav Glück was born on 6 April 1871 in Vienna.
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Gustav Glück died on 18 November 1952 in Santa Monica.
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Gustav Glück was an art historian.
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Gustav Glück was Austrian.
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