Gerhard Gleich
Overview
Vienna
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, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
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He grew up as Gerhard Feest and later adopted the name of his second wife, the Polish-Austrian painter Joanna Gleich
Joanna Gleich
Joanna Gleich Joanna Gleich Joanna Gleich (born 28 September 1959 in Kluczbork (Poland) lives and works since 1989 as painter in Vienna, Austria. A student of Wolfgang Hollegha and Josef Mikl at the Vienna Akademie der bildenden Künste, she has exhibited in the United States, Austria, Germany and...
. A student of Albert Paris Gütersloh
Albert Paris Gütersloh
Albert Paris Gütersloh was an Austrian painter and writer.Gütersloh worked as actor, director, and stage designer before he focused on painting in 1921....
, he was from 1972 to 1997 assistant of the Viennese painter and art professor Wolfgang Hollegha
Wolfgang Hollegha
Wolfgang Hollegha is an Austrian painter.- Biography :Hollegha was born in in Klagenfurt, Kärnten/Carinthia. From 1947 to 1954 he studied at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna with Josef Dobrovsky and Herbert Boeckl. In 1956, together with Josef Mikl, Markus Prachensky and Arnulf Rainer,...
. Today he works in the context of the academy's Institute for Conceptual Art (with Professor Marina Grzinic).
Quotations
Biography, especially the biography of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions from poverty and obscurity to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.
Horace Mann
The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.
Samuel Smiles
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
Plutarch