Artworks from Nicole Glück

Artist Nicole Glück

Freelance artist and passionate author Nicole Glück was born in Schleswig-Holstein in 1971. She currently lives and works on versatile art projects, including in her studio near the Hochrhein region between Lake Constance and Basel in southern Germany. The self-determined art painter has actively devoted herself to her work since 2006, whereby her artistic focus is on the "simplification of the object in painting".

Her paintings are antagonistic like herself: In addition to creations and groups of works of concrete landscape painting, her portfolio ranges from abstracted portraits of women to abstract objects and urban city views. Although the situations Nicole Glück depicts are recognisably related to the present, to populated inner cities and bustling metropolises, they cannot be reduced to socially critical statements. Unattractive, plain buildings, which she takes up in reality, are transformed in Glück's painting into a moving picture full of drama, into which observations and notes from numerous visits to cosmopolitan places have flowed. In addition, there are many seemingly coincidental moments of everyday urban life, whereby great joy in experimentation determines the painter's view of her contemporaries. All motifs live from the unique depiction of an underlying tension between tranquillity and dynamism. The laconic mysteriousness of the motifs arouses curiosity; through the montage of grotesquely alienated everyday situations, through colourful exaggerations, the Dogern artist succeeds in creating associations that remain suspended between everyday visions and childhood dreams.

Artistic working method

Her object-reduced forms of expression are evidence of an intensive engagement with a wide variety of painting and drawing techniques. These are created in an acrylic mixed technique, which she likes to combine with ink, chalk or rust & patina in her working method.
Particularly characteristic for Glück is the use of unusual materials as well as experimental painting which always produces surprising and impressive results. The artist paints her metropolitan motifs for weeks, sometimes even months. Using thin colours, she directs the material without disturbing its flow. The resulting gradients are fluid and form the basis for further motif processes, which are a prerequisite for subsequent elaboration of the later details.

Nicole Glück knows the needs of her audience and is aware that modern art succumbs to the tastes of the times. She intuitively incorporates her experience and the realisation that real art does not always have to be explicable, but can also be vivid, into the creation of her works. A stroke of luck - because her non-subordinate way of working obviously meets exactly this taste of the times. The increasing popularity of her art obviously proves her right - her works of art are indisputably among the most sought-after urban landscapes of their time.

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