Gluck (1895 - 1978)

RA Collection: People and Organisations

Gluck, (born Hannah Gluckstein), was a British painter, who rejected any forename or prefix and went by the gender-nonconforming name Gluck.

Gluck trained at the St John’s Wood School of Art (1913-16), and then joined the artists’ colony at Lamorna, near Penzance, Cornwall. The artist began to call themself Gluck in 1918. Gluck was noted for portraits and floral paintings, as well as a new design of picture-frame - the ‘Gluck Frame’- which was exhibited at British Art in Industry exhibitions and became an integral part of Modernist and Art Deco interiors of the 1930s.