David Glück NEAC RWS RE was a painter, versatile printmaker and teacher, noted for his landscape and still life watercolours and etchings. He was elected to the New English Art Club in 1994.
Born in Pontefract, Yorkshire, he attended Wakefield School of Art and Leeds College of Art between 1956 and 1961. He went on to the Royal College of Art, where he was made an Associate in 1965 and took a Postgraduate Diploma in Printmaking.
Glück held many one-person exhibitions and participated in numerous group shows, such as the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, the Grenchen International Print Triennale, the London Group, and the British International Print Biennale.
In 1974, he was appointed Head of Printmaking at the Central School of Arts & Crafts. His first teaching post was at East Ham Technical College. He later taught at Oxford Polytechnic and in Canterbury and Epsom and at Goldsmiths College. For eight years, 1985-93, he was also a member of the Printmaking Panel of the British School at Rome.
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 Biennale.
On his retirement in 1994, Glück left full-time teaching to concentrate on his own work. He was elected a member of the London Group, the New English Art Club, the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and the Society of Landscape Painters.
In 1985, Glück was elected a member of the RWS and served as vice-president between 1999 and 2002. Among his many prizes he received the House and Garden Award at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition of 1988 and the year before his death his landscape ‘The Evening Sunlight, Petrognano’ was awarded first prize in the Singer and Friedlander/Sunday Times competition. His work is held in many collections including Leeds City Art Gallery, the British Museum and the Palace of Westminster.
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Image: 'Lilies in Blue Vase' by David Glück © the copyright holder. Photo credit: Royal Watercolour Society