Simon Glücklich
German, 1863–1943
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Simon Glücklich was born in Bielitz, Germany (now Poland) in 1863.
Son of decorator painter Leo Glücklich, Simon Glücklich attended high school in Bielitz and then studied at the Vienna Art Academy from 1880-1890 and from 1885-1890 with the genre and landscape painter Leopold Carl Müller (1834-1892).
In October 1890 he moved to Munich, where he remained in Munich until the end of his life. Prior to his relocating to Munich in 1890, he went on a study trip to Italy.
In 1905 Glücklich received the golden medal of the international art exhibition in Munich.