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Gerhard gluck biography

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Gerhard Glück. The simple life

Exhibition

November 16, 2024 - March 9, 2025

December 27, 2024 | 11:00 - 17:00 Uhr

Opening hours

Tuesday to Sunday

11:00 - 17:00 Uhr

The master is back! Gerhard Glück's fans in Basel have had to wait over 25 years for his enigmatic paintings to return to the Cartoon Museum. The artist, who was born in Bad Vilbel in 1944, will be 80 years old in 2024. The retrospective at the Cartoon Museum will show the whole of Glück, from his first cartoons in the early 1970s to his most recent works. Glück is one of the best-known representatives of comic art; he was honoured with the German Cartoon Prize in Gold in 2000 and 2005 and was awarded the Göttinger Elch for his life's work in 2017.

Whether he is taking aim at well-known works of art, global political developments or social conventions: Glück's old-masterly yet naive painting style only briefly belies the biting humour that underpins his work. Once you have travelled through Glück's charming grotesques, trapdoors open up into bizarre, often absurd situations. His pictures are popul

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Gerhard Glück (Cartoonist)

Gerhard Glück (* Juli 1944 in Bad Vilbel) ist ein deutscherCartoonist.

Glück wuchs in Frankfurt am Main auf und studierte in KasselGrafikdesign und Kunsterziehung. Ab 1972 erste Cartoons in der Hessischen Allgemeinen, Titelbilder und Illustrationen für das Magazin der Süddeutschen Zeitung, das manager magazin u. a. Seit 1991 erscheinen seine Cartoons monatlich in NZZ Folio, der Zeitschrift der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung, und seit 1994 im Satiremagazin Eulenspiegel. Gelegentlich entdeckt man seine Illustrationen auch in der Wochenzeitung Die Zeit und im Magazin Cicero. Seine Cartoon-Bücher erscheinen im Lappan Verlag, der auch seine Bilderbücher und die von Glück illustrierten Geschenkbuchausgaben der Gedichte von Heinz Erhardt, Joachim Ringelnatz und Christian Morgenstern verlegt. Er illustriert auch Buchcover und Texte für dtv und andere Verlage. Die Arbeiten von Gerhard Glück wurden vielfach ausgezeichnet und ausgestellt, zuletzt in Frankfurt („Viel Glück in Frankfurt“, 2006), Zürich („Gerhard Glück, Kunst & Co“, 2006), Köl

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Cartoonmuseum Basel
Centre for Narrative Art

The master is back! Gerhard Glück’s Basel-based fans have had to wait more than 25 years for his cryptic paintings to return to Cartoonmuseum Basel. In 2024, this artist, who was born in 1944 in Bad Vilbel, will turn 80. The retrospective at Cartoonmuseum Basel presents the complete Glück, from his first early-1970s cartoons to his most recent works. Glück is one of the best-known representatives of comic art. In 2000 and 2005, he received the German Caricature Award in Gold, and in 2017, he was presented with the Göttinger Elch for his life’s work.

Regardless of whether he is taking aim at famous artworks, developments in world politics or social conventions, Glück’s old-masterly and simultaneously naive painting style only briefly belies the biting humour with which he underpins his works. For anyone venturing inside Glück’s sweet grotesques, trapdoors open up, leading to bizarre, often absurd situations. His pictures are populated by people of a very distinct, exaggeratedly average type: middle-aged, portly and unfashionable.

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