Gerhard Glück

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The simple life
The master is back! Gerhard Glück's fans in Basel had to be patient for over 25 years before his enigmatic paintings returned to the Cartoon Museum. The artist, who was born in Bad Vilbel in 1944, will be 80 years old in 2024. The retrospective at the Cartoon Museum will show the whole of Glück, from his first cartoons in the early 1970s to his most recent works. Glück is one of the best-known representatives of comic art; he was honored with the German Cartoon Prize in Gold in 2000 and 2005 and was awarded the Göttinger Elch for his life's work in 2017.
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Kind malt auf weisse Wand
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“You won’t believe what happened to me yesterday!...” In this workshop, we capture a situation from day-to-day life that made us laugh. Our illustrators help to turn a funny experience into a drawn ...

Man and woman walking in snowy landscape; buildings in the backround
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Gerhard Glück's lovingly humorous paintings have been appearing in major newspapers and magazines since the 1970s. This consistency runs counter to the trend of caricature being given less and less ...

Riesiger Ball liegt auf Staffelei vor zersprungenem Fenster
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An evening for people who like to draw. Two models recreate situations from Gerhard Glück’s cartoons. As Gerhard Glück’s characters have to endure a lot, which often involves their whole bodies ...

3 Personen riechen an verschiedenen Rohren
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Gerhard Glück is a cartoonist who paints. With a lush palette, old-masterly brushstrokes and subtle humour, he portrays simple people and well-behaved animals who are unexpectedly confronted with ...

Einsame Gestalt mit Pinguin Bild in der Arktis
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Gerhard Glück is a cartoonist who paints. With a lush palette, old-masterly brushstrokes and subtle humour, he portrays simple people and well-behaved animals who are unexpectedly confronted with ...

Mann in Anzug hängt seinen Kop in Fluss
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Gerhard Glück is a cartoonist who paints. With a lush palette, old-masterly brushstrokes and subtle humour, he portrays simple people and well-behaved animals who are unexpectedly confronted with ...

Kind malt auf weisse Wand
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“You won’t believe what happened to me yesterday!...” In this workshop, we capture a situation from day-to-day life that made us laugh. Our illustrators help to turn a funny experience into a drawn ...

Hund sitzt an Tisch mit Bierglas, wird beobachtet von zwei Personen im Hintergrund
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Gerhard Glück’s characters are often denied simple pleasures because life takes an unexpected turn and the absurd is waiting around the corner. On Museums Night at Cartoonmuseum Basel though ...

3 Personen riechen an verschiedenen Rohren
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Gerhard Glück is a cartoonist who paints. With a lush palette, old-masterly brushstrokes and subtle humour, he portrays simple people and well-behaved animals who are unexpectedly confronted with ...

Mann in Anzug hängt seinen Kop in Fluss
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Gerhard Glück is a cartoonist who paints. With a lush palette, old-masterly brushstrokes and subtle humour, he portrays simple people and well-behaved animals who are unexpectedly confronted with ...

Mann mit Virtual Reality Brille in blau gefliestem Raum
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Puns, sarcasm or absurd humour - funny picture comments flash in our faces every day on social media. Bring observations from your world to the workshop and produce your own little memes, moving or ...

3 Personen riechen an verschiedenen Rohren
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Gerhard Glück is a cartoonist who paints. With a lush palette, old-masterly brushstrokes and subtle humour, he portrays simple people and well-behaved animals who are unexpectedly confronted with ...

3 Personen riechen an verschiedenen Rohren
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Gerhard Glück is a cartoonist who paints. With a lush palette, old-masterly brushstrokes and subtle humour, he portrays simple people and well-behaved animals who are unexpectedly confronted with ...

Mann mit Virtual Reality Brille in blau gefliestem Raum
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Puns, sarcasm or absurd humour - funny picture comments flash in our faces every day on social media. Bring observations from your world to the workshop and produce your own little memes, moving or ...

Einsame Gestalt mit Pinguin Bild in der Arktis
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Gerhard Glück is a cartoonist who paints. With a lush palette, old-masterly brushstrokes and subtle humour, he portrays simple people and well-behaved animals who are unexpectedly confronted with ...