Enrico Henryk Glicenstein
1870, Turek, Poland - 1942, New York, USA
Man Portrait, 1910s
Original Hand-Signed Ink Drawing -
circa the 1910s
Artist Name: Enrico Henryk Glicenstein
Title: Man portrait
Signature Description: Hand-signed in pencil lower right
Technique: Ink on paper
Size: 30 x 19 cm / 11.81" x 7.48" inch
Frame: Unframed.
Condition: Good condition with no tears, rips, holes, wrinkles, repairs, wear, paint peelings or losses, a few minor aging stains consistent with the age and use.
Artist's Biography:
Enoch Henryk (Enrico) Glicenstein (Turek, Poland, 24 May 1870 - New
York, 30 December 1942) was a Polish-born sculptor and painter who lived in
Italy and the United States.
Life
Glicenstein was born in Turek, Poland in 1870 and named Enoch
Hendryk Glicenstein. His father was a teacher who also worked as a monumental
mason. He initially showed interest in being a rabbi whilst working in Łódź painting
signs and carving wood.
He enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich
(1890-95) and after his studies he married Helena Hirszenberg in 1896.
He won twice the Prix de Rome in 1894 and 1897, settled in
Italy and took Italian citizenship, becoming known as Enrico Glicenstein.
His son Emanuel was born in Rome, and Glicenstein became an Italian
citizen.
Leaving Italy
He established a reputation in
Paris, winning a silver medal in 1900 and reportedly exhibiting his bronze
sculpture “Messia”, alongside Rodin's own work, at the latter's suggestion, in
the central Rotunda of the Grand Palais in Paris.
Later the same year, upon Rodin’s recommendation, Glicenstein was elected an
honorary member of the Société des Beaux-Arts.
Between 1906 and 1914 he exhibited regularly in Germany, briefly heading the
Warsaw School of Fine Arts sculpture department: he took over the Chair belonging to Xawery
Dunikowski at the University of Warsaw in 1910 before
returning to Berlin, where he held an important retrospective exhibition that
toured to key German cities between 1912 and 1913.
When World War I broke
out he moved his family to Poland.
At the end of the war the family lived in Switzerland until they emigrated to
London in 1920. During the next eight years he exhibited first in London and
later in Rome and Venice (1925-28).
He also exhibited at the 15th Venice Biennale (1928) but had
to leave Italy after refusing to join the Fascist Party and moved permanently
to the USA.
United States
Glicenstein emigrated to America in 1928 with his son Emanuel. His wife
and daughter joined him in New York in 1935.
In the USA he exhibited in Manhattan, as well as at the Art
Institute of Chicago and in the 1939 World’s Fair. He wanted to go to Israel (then Mandatory
Palestine), but he died in New York in a car accident in December 1942.
His son became a notable painter and lived in Safed in Israel.
Legacy
The Glicenstein Museum was founded in Safed, Israel. It became the Israel
Bible Museum in 1985, and many Glicenstein sculptures are still displayed
there.
Glicenstein's works are in public collections throughout
Europe and America and include the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and
the Pompidou Centre, Paris; the Israel Museum; the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte
Moderna in Rome; the Krakow and the Warsaw National Museum, Poland; the
Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum.
In addition, Glicenstein
has papers in the Smithsonian.
Jean Cassou has published a book on Glicenstein Sculpture. Portraits of
Glicenstein and his daughter Beatrice were made by his son Emanuel Glicen
Romano. (His son changed his name to avoid being accused of exploiting his
father's fame).
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