Thursday 22 November 2007

Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein)

"Lilas"

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ok, what does this have to do with Judaica?

Goelet said...

Hannah Gluckstein was a jewish painter.

Gluck (Hannah Gluckstein, 13 August 1895 – 10 January 1978) was a British painter.

Hannah Gluckstein was born into a wealthy Jewish family, the daughter of Joseph Gluckstein, whose brothers Isidore and Montague had founded J. Lyons and Co., a British coffee house and catering empire. Her American-born mother, Francesca Halle, was an opera singer. Her brother, Sir Louis Gluckstein, was a Conservative politician.

you can see more in Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluck_(Hannah_Gluckstein)