Hotspur🏳️🌈🇺🇦<p>"Self Portrait," Gluck, 1921.</p><p>Gluck (1895-1978) was a pioneering queer artist, and a forerunner of the current genderqueer movement.</p><p>Born Hanna Gluckstein in London, in 1916 Gluck moved to Lamorna, an artists' colony in Cornwall, with a lover, E. M. Craig, about whom very little is known. By 1918 Gluck had adopted the mononym and was dressing in male clothing and painted smoking a pipe. </p><p>Gluck never declared any relation to a specific school or style, although here we can see a definite Art Deco influence. Gluck became known mostly for portraits and florals, but in the late 30s Gluck's style fell from favor, resulting in an artistic hiatus that lasted until the late 60s. Then Gluck began painting again, and had one last show before passing away.</p><p>Gluck never clearly identified as either sex, but had a number of female lovers. One painting, "Medallion," is regarded as one of the great depictions of a lesbian relationship.</p><p>From a private collection.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/QueerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerHistory</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/QueerArtists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueerArtists</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Gluck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gluck</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Selfportrait" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Selfportrait</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/GenderQueer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenderQueer</span></a></p>