Gustav Glück
Gustav Glück ( born April 6, 1871 in Vienna, † November 18, 1952 in Santa Monica, California, United States) was an Austrian art historian and museum director.
Life
Gustav happiness is the son of Moritz (1832-1914) and Therese (1838-1914) luck. He grew up in this milieu interested in culture and prestigious old Austrian wholesale merchant family, studied happiness in Vienna and Bonn, especially promoted by Franz Wickhoff and Carl Justi, for now classics, then Archaeology and Art History ( Doctor Philosophiae 1894). Throughout his life enriched study trips his art historical works and made him valuable scientific connections tie. 1899 joined a fortune in the service of the court and was used as a research assistant at the Graphic Collection of the Imperial Library of Friedrich Dörnhöffer for the reorganization of the early graphic stocks. A year later, he took over as assistant scientific work of the Art Gallery of the "Art History Collection of the Most Imperial House " ( Kunsthistorisches Museum). In 1911 he was appointed as the first art historian to lead the Gemäldegalerie, whose directorate he led until his transition into retirement ( 1931). The Picture Gallery owes Fortunately, the first modern hanging, which solved the individual paintings from the wealth of previously offered "Images walls " and allowed an isolated view of the artwork. The precipitated from the Permanent Collection images were combined into a furnished as a study collection " secondary Gallery". The expansion of Restaurieranstalt, which was equipped with an early X-ray and quartz lamp assembly, can happiness high sense of responsibility for the preservation of the masterpieces recognize. The international relations happiness and his energetic action in written and contributed after the First World War at crucial that the Gemäldegalerie up on the confiscated pictures of Italy suffered no further losses. Artistic sense, a developed sense of quality and a precise knowledge of the art market made it possible for happiness, with a considerable number of new acquisitions " the strengths of the existing stocks [ ... ] round ." He systematically expanded its collection of old Austrian panel painting, now in the " Museum of Medieval Austrian Art " is located. At the published 1904-1928 catalogs and guides the Gemäldegalerie, he was involved as an agent and publisher. As luck from the civil service arbitration, were present not only his books on the art of the Renaissance and Van Dyck, but also a considerable number of essays on early Netherlandish and German Renaissance Art and the problem circle around Peter Paul Rubens and his school. Now followed in addition studies of Flemish and Dutch paintings in quick succession two books on Pieter Bruegel the Elder and their translations. They pointed the Bruegelforschung new ways. In exile, the happiness to London in 1938 and 1942 to Santa Monica led, he wrote a comprehensive work on the landscapes at Rubens and include numerous studies of the Habsburg portraits. These studies round as well as the last study " Peter Bruegel the Elder and the Legend of St. Christopher in Early Flemish Paintings" (The Art Quarterly 13, Detroit 1950) the life's work of a profiled personality from scholars.
Works
Among other things:
- The Picture Gallery of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. 1923, 41946, engl. 1925
- The drawings by Peter Paul Rubens. edited by F. M. Haberditzl, Vienna 1928
- The art of the Renaissance in Germany, the Netherlands, France, etc. In: Propyläen Kunstgesch. X, 1928, 21933, Span 1936
- Van Dyck, The Master paintings. In: Classic d Art XIII, 1931
- Collected Essays, edited by L. Burchard and R. Berger own, 2 vols, 1933 (selection from the more than 180 additional essays and introductions to art books )
- Bruegel's paintings, 1936, 51951 ud T. The large Bruegel plant
- The Bruegel Book, 1936, 85 thousand in 1949 ( 1936 holländ., French and Engl. 1937)
- De Landschappen by Peter Paul Rubens, Antwerp and Amsterdam in 1940, dt 1945/48, 21949
- The path to the image, experiences, Erlauschtes, invented, 1948.
To in-law Father Franz Schönthan of Perlwald: Number Empire in 1900 very popular farces and comedies, most notably: The Rape of the Sabine Women, Schwank in 4 acts, 1884
- Small Humoresken, 4 volumes, 1882-87 ( with his brother Paul ).