Painter, versatile printmaker and teacher, noted for his landscape and still life watercolours and etchings, born in Pontefract, Yorkshire. He attended Wakefield School of Art, 1956–9; Leeds College of Art, 1959–61; and Royal College of Art, for printmaking, 1962–5, under Julian Trevelyan and Edward Bawden. He was made a member of the LG, 1978; RWS, 1988, vice-president, 2002; fellow, RE, 1988; member Society of Landscape Painters, 1989; and of NEAC, 1993. Glück taught full-time at Central School of Art & Design, 1974–94 as head of printmaking (acting head of fine art, 1986–91), and as director of the BA Fine Art Course at Central St Martins, 1989–91, plus extensive teaching elsewhere in England and Italy. He took part in numerous mixed shows and won the Daler-Rowney Watercolour Prize, 1988; RA Summer Exhibition House and Garden Award, 1989; Department of Transport Competition, Mall Galleries, 3rd Purchase Prize, 1993; Ranelagh Press Prize, Printmakers’ Council Exhibition, 1995; and, in the same year, Covent Garden Market Authority Prize, LG Biennial.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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