Sculptor and printmaker Enrico Glicenstein was born Henoch Glicenstein into a Jewish family in Turek, Poland on 24 May 1870. He enrolled at the Academy in Munich (1890–95), where he twice won the Prix de Rome (1894 and 1897). Subsequently, he settled in Rome with his wife and took Italian citizenship, becoming known by the Italian form of his first name - Enrico. Glicenstein also established a reputation in Paris, winning a silver medal in 1900, and upon Rodin’s recommendation, he was elected an honorary member of the Société des Beaux-Arts. Between 1906 and 1914 he exhibited regularly in Germany, while briefly also heading the Warsaw School of Fine Arts sculpture department. The First World War forced him to return to Warsaw but in 1918 he was reunited with his family in Switzerland. They continued a peripatetic lifestyle until 1921 when they resettled in London, where Glicenstein also taught; among his pupils was printmaker Sybil Andrews (afterwards, closely associated, from 1925, with the Grosvenor School of Modern Art). Glicenstein held solo exhibitions in Rome and Venice (1925–28), also exhibiting at the 15th Venice Biennale (1928) but had to leave Italy after refusing to join the Fascist Party, and moved permanently to New York. In the USA he exhibited in the galleries of Manhattan, as well as at the Art Institute of Chicago and in the 1939 Worlds’ Fair. He died in New York, on 30 December 1942, after being struck by a cab.
ZBIÓRKI PUBLICZNE
- Muzeum Brooklyńskie, Nowy Jork
- Centrum Pompidou, Paryż
- Biblioteka Publiczna w Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio
- Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rzym
- Muzeum Izraela, Jerozolima
- Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie, Polska
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nowy Jork
- Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
- Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Waszyngton, DC
- Amerykańskie Muzeum Smithsona, Waszyngton, DC
- Muzeum Pamięci Holokaustu w Stanach Zjednoczonych, Waszyngton, DC
- Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, Polska
ORGANIZACJE POWIĄZANE
- Prix de Rome (odbiorca)
- Société des Beaux-Arts (członek honorowy)
- Szkoła Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie (profesor)
WYBRANE WYSTAWY
- Spojrzenie: No Return. Polish Artists Who Fled Nazi-Dominated Europe to British Culture, POSK, Londyn (2019)
- Ben Uri Highlights: Key Works and Figures, Ben Uri Art Society (1990)
- Glicenstein: Sculpture, Drawings, Chapellier Galleries, New York (1964)
- Glicenstein: Sculpture and Drawings, James Graham & Sons, New York (1959)
- Glicenstein, Musée du Petit Palais, Paryż (1948)
- Ben Uri Kolekcja obrazów, rzeźb i rysunków, Ben Uri Art Gallery (1946)
- Metropolitan Museum, Nowy Jork (1942)
- Brooklyn Museum, Nowy Jork (1938)
- Israel Zangwill Memorial Exhibition, Ben Uri Jewish Art Gallery (1935)
- Wystawa malarstwa i rzeźby artystów żydowskich, Ben Uri Jewish Art Gallery (1934)
- Knoedler Gallery, Chicago (1933)
- Instytut Sztuki w Chicago (1929)
- Brooklyn Museum, Nowy Jork (1928)
- Jewish Art and Antiquities, Whitechapel Gallery, Londyn (1927)
- XV Biennale w Wenecji (wystawa indywidualna) (1926)
- Oficjalne otwarcie na Great Russell Street, Galerii i Klubu Żydowskiego Towarzystwa Artystycznego Ben-Uri (1925)
- Letnia wystawa Royal Academy (1923 i 1925)
- Wystawa Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts (1924)
- British Museum, Londyn (1923)
- Terza esposizione Internazionale d'Arte "della Secessione", Rzym (1915)
- Seconda Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte "della Secessione", Rzym (1914)
- Galeria Heinemann, Monachium (1913)
- Salony Międzynarodowych Obrazów, Rzeźb, Druków i Rysunków Władimira Izdebskiego, Kijów, Petersburg i Ryga (1910)
- Paul Cassirer, Berlin (1909)
- Biblioteka Rosyjska i Czytelnia imienia N. V. Gogola, Rzym (1906)
- Wystawa Międzynarodowego Stowarzyszenia Rzeźbiarzy, Malarzy i Grafików, Manchester Art Gallery (1905)