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Winold Reiss
American painter
Winold Reiss (September 16, 1886 – August 23, 1953) was a German-born American artist and graphic designer. He was born in Karlsruhe, Germany. In 1913 he immigrated to the United States, where he was able to follow his interest in Native Americans. In 1920 he went West for the first time, working for a lengthy period on the Blackfeet Reservation. Over the years Reiss painted more than 250 works depicting Native Americans. These paintings by Reiss became known more widely beginning in the 1920 and to the 1950s, when the Great Northern Railway commissioned Reiss to do paintings of the Blackfeet which were then distributed widely as lithographed reproductions on Great Northern calendars.
Early life and education
[edit]Reiss was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1886, the second son of Fritz Reiss (1857–1914) and his wife. He grew up surrounded by art, as his father was a well-known Schwarzwald landscape artist and portrait painter. In his early years, Reiss traveled within Germany with his father, who studied peasants of particular types that he wanted to draw or paint. This helped form many of Reiss's ideas about subject matter for portraiture. His older brother Hans Reiss (painter) also became an artist, working as a sculptor and also imm
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Treasures from Our West: Man and Woman Sign Talking by Winold Reiss
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Summer 2014
Winold Reiss was a German born artist, who immigrated to the United States in 1913. He had studied fine art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, as well as commercial design at the School of Applied Arts, both in Munich, Germany. A celebrated portrait painter in New York, his first trip out West, in 1920, was inspired by German author Karl May’s popular novels—set in the American Old West. While in Montana, Reiss painted numerous portraits of the Blackfeet people. In 1927, the Great Northern Railway commissioned him to travel and paint along their route through Glacier National Park. The Railway used many of his portraits of Blackfeet Indians in their advertising campaigns, such as the poster pictured at right. Reiss continued to return to the West on painting trips through 1948.
Man and Woman Sign Talking showcases Reiss’s strong graphic style. Early on in his career, Reiss designed many interiors and exteriors of buildings. Reiss’s exposure to architectural design and art deco style can be seen in his preference for strong geometric shapes and color blocking, especially in the tipi background motif and the shawls of the figures