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    Artist

  • Glückselig, Leo, 1914-

    • Title

  • Portrait of Friedrich Bergammer

  • Physical Description

    Drawing : ink on paper ; 16 7/8 x 14 in. ; 43 x 35.5 centimeters

  • Date

    1979

  • Summary

    Line portrait of Friedrich Bergammer in profile, showing his head and shoulders. He is wearing a suit and glasses, holding a cigarette near his mouth. Signed and dated near the bottom of the suit lines.

  • Depicted

    Bergammer, Friedrich, 1909-1981

  • Subject

    Poets

  • Medium

    Portraits; Drawings

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

Fritz Glueckselig was an art dealer and poet, who published his poems as Friedrich Bergammer since 1926. He was born in 1909 in Vienna, Austria, and immigrated to New York in 1938. Bergammer was married to Gaby Glueckselig (born as Gabriele Netter), and in New York he was part of the Oskar-Maria-Graf Stammitsch. Friedrich Bergammer died in New York in 1981. His brother was the graphic artist Leo Glueckselig.

Leo Glueckselig was born in Vienna in 1914. He studied architecture and worked as an interior designer. He left Austria with his family in 1938 and immigrated to New York, where he worked as a graphic designer and illustrator. He was part of the Oskar-Maria-Graf Stammitsch. Since 1999 his artwork has been exhibited in Vienna, Salzburg, New York, Washington, and Graz. Leo Glueckselig died in New York in 2003.

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Glückselig, Leo: Portrait of Friedrich Bergammer, Leo Baeck Institute, 2007.91.