GLUCKMAN (Glickman) Grigory Efimovich

December 25, 1898 (Vitebsk province) — 1973

Painter, graphic artist

Grigory Gluckman studied in the First State Free Art Studios in 1917–1920. In 1922 he emigrated, lived in Berlin, in 1923–1924 — in Florence, since 1924 — in Paris.

In 1922 Gluckman joined art society Vereteno (“Spindle”).

In 1920s he worked in book graphic art. He designed books Poems about Russia by A. Bely (1922), Florentine Nights by H. Heine, Signor Formica by E. T. Hoffman, Manon Lescaut by A. F. Prévost and many others.

In 1930s Gluckman was engaged in easel painting. He painted portraits, academy figures, scenes, landscapes. He exposed his works at many group exhibitions, in particular the Autumn Salon and Salon Tuileries, and exhibitions of the National Society of Fine Arts. Personal exhibitions of the artist were held in Paris galleries Drouet (1924), De Frennait (1929), K. Weil (1930), Bourget (1932, 1934), Charpentier (1934), and Allard (1937). In 1937 Gluckman was awarded gold medal at the International Exhibition in Paris.

In Paris Gluckman became friends with world-known violinist Jascha Heifetz, who later collected the largest collection of Gluckman’s paintings.