German cartoonist Gerhard Glück offers a commentary on art, life, and literature through his own brand of satire that invites us to look at social conventions and stereotypes though a different lens.

I don’t have the titles for many of the cartoons - I leave those to your imagination!

Gerhard Glück, *Sometimes you can recognise couple problems at first glance*, 2014, (c) Cartoon Museum Basel

Born in 1944 in the village of Bad Vibes near Frankfurt, Glück studied art and graphic design in Kassel, where he still lives and has worked as an art teacher until 2003.

In the early 1990s he achieved recognition with his cartoons which were published by several major German and Swiss newspapers and magazines, including the German satirical magazine Eulenspiegel.

Glück’s work also includes magazine covers and illustrations for stories and poems by great German writers such as the poet Christian Morgenstern, the writer Joachim Ringelnatz and the journalist and satirist Kurt Tucholsky.

Gerhard Glück, *Untitled*, 1990, (c) Cartoon Museum Basel

Gerhard Gluck holds the German Caricature Award in Gold (2000 an 2005) and the Göttinger Elch life achievement award (2017). His work is widely exhibited, including the upcoming retrospective at the Cartoon Museum in Basel, celebrating the artist’s 80th year. The exhibition runs from 15/11/2024 to 8/3/2025, https://cartoonmuseum.ch/en/ausstellungen/gerhard-glueck

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