Leo Glueckselig Collection 1900s-2003

The Leo Glueckselig Collection includes materials pertaining to Leo Glueckselig and other members of the Glueckselig family and consists mostly of personal correspondence, photographs, and documents, whereas other document types such as printed materials, manuscripts, art works, and a cookbook constitute a smaller part of the collection.Other materials include educational, immigration, military, and vital documents, as well as examples of Leo Glueckselig’s art works and works by other artists, most notably László Mutulay.Leo Glueckselig was born in Vienna in 1914. He studied architecture and worked as an interior designer. He left Austria with his family in 1938 and emigrated to New York, where he worked as a graphic designer and illustrator. He was part of the Oskar-Maria-Graf Stammtisch. Since 1999 his artwork has been exhibited in Vienna, Salzburg, New York, Washington, and Graz. He died in New York in 2003. His brother was the poet Friedrich Berghammer.Austrian Heritage CollectionSee also AHC interview with Leo Glueckselig (AHC 88)digitize