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1886 Karlsruhe, Germany - 1953 Carson City, Nevada. Known for: Indian portrait and mural painting, illustration.
Born in Germany, Winold Reiss grew up in the Black Forest and came to be a foremost American painter of Indian portraits. He is also considered a modernist, a part of the Art Deco vanguard. In... Read full biography
Born in Germany, Winold Reiss grew up in the Black Forest and came to be a foremost American painter of Indian portraits. He is also considered a modernist, a part of the Art Deco vanguard. In Munich, he studied at the Royal Academy and the Art School, and having been impressed by novels of James... Read full biography
Born in Germany, Winold Reiss grew up in the Black Forest and came to be a foremost American painter of Indian portraits. He is also considered a modernist, a part of the Art Deco vanguard. In Munich, he studied at the Royal Academy and the Art School, and having been impressed by novels of James Fenimore Cooper, came to the United States in 1913 with the purpose of painting Indians like those he had read about. He arrived in New York City with little money and realized he was still a distance... Read full biography
Born in Germany, Winold Reiss grew up in the Black Forest and came to be a foremost American painter of Indian portraits. He is also considered a modernist, a part of the Art Deco vanguard. In Munich, he studied at the Royal Academy and the Art School, and having been impressed by novels of James Fenimore Cooper, came to the United States in 1913 with the purpose of painting Indians like those he had read about. He arrived in New York City with little money and realized he was still a distance from Indian country, so he first got established as a portrait, landscape, and mural painter, art teacher, and interior designer. In the latter capacity, he successfully decorated several restaurants and other public buildings and had a commission... Read full biography
Born in Germany, Winold Reiss grew up in the Black Forest and came to be a foremost American painter of Indian portraits. He is also considered a modernist, a part of the Art Deco vanguard. In Munich, he studied at the Royal Academy and the Art School, and having been impressed by novels of James Fenimore Cooper, came to the United States in 1913 with the purpose of painting Indians like those he had read about. He arrived in New York City with little money and realized he was still a distance from Indian country, so he first got established as a portrait, landscape, and mural painter, art teacher, and interior designer. In the latter capacity, he successfully decorated several restaurants and other public buildings and had a commission for the Hotel Crillon. All of this activity allowed him to save money for travel. In 1919, he went West, visiting the B... Read full biography
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Keywords (60)
Art Method
- •Art Design
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Charcoal
- •Colored Pencil
- •Conte Crayon
- •Copper, Coppersmithing
- •Crayon, Crayola Drawing
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Mosaics, Intarsia
- •Oil Paint
- •Pastel Painting/Drawing
- •Tempera
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
- •Realist, Representational, Naturalist Style
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Indian Figure Prior to 1940
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •National Parks and/or State Parks
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Urban Landscape, Cityscape
- •Western Art: Cowboys, Indians, Horses, Ranch Scenes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Glacier National Park
- •Grand Canyon, Arizona
- •Mexico and/or Central America
- •Woodstock, New York
Art Association
- •American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor
- •National Society of Mural Painters
- •Salons of America
- •Society of Illustrators-
- •Society of Independent Artists-
- •Woodstock Art Association, New York
Art School
- •Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (Royal Academy, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
Art Collection
- •Anschutz Collection
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Figure Specialty
- •Mural Specialty
- •Portrait Specialty
- •Railroad Promotion Commissioned Artist
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Black, African-American and/or Caribbean
- •German
Exhibition of Art Association
- •American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor-
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •Salons of America-
- •Society of Independent Artists--
- •Woodstock NY Art Association
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Charles Russell Art Show/Auction/ and/or Museum
- •Smithsonian Institution/Museums
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art