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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 ...
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She was the subject of a pastel drawing by Winold Reiss, which appeared in Survey Graphic. [7] [24] In the last years of her life, she lived on Sugar Hill in West Harlem at The Garrison Apartments, 435 Convent Avenue, Apartment 33. [25] She died at her home there on June 10, 1971, at the age of 86.
Longchamps restaurants were known for their natty art deco furnishings and decorations by Winold Reiss, [2] and a number of designs for elements of their physical surroundings were drawn up by New York architect Ely Jacques Kahn, [3] originator of a colorful version of art deco architecture. [4]
In the mid-1920s, Greenwood studied with Winold Reiss, a German-born artist and designer who had contributed to the Harlem Renaissance movement. [6] In 1929, both of the Greenwood sisters participated in the famed Bohemian event, the Maverick Festival (1915–1931) at the Maverick Art Colony in Woodstock, New York.
Karasz and a group of other European-born artists and designers, including Winold Reiss, founded the Society of Modern Art in 1914. The organization published Modern Art Collector, which published much of Karasz’s early designs. Her first work presented in the journal was a theatrical poster with checkerboard motifs, a common Austrian-German ...
The Winold Reiss industrial murals are a set of 16 tile mosaic murals displaying manufacturing in Cincinnati, Ohio. The works were created by Winold Reiss for Cincinnati Union Terminal from 1931 to 1932, and made up 11,908 of the 18,150 square feet of art in the terminal. [ 1 ]
He studied with the Art Students League, 1916–17, and was a pupil of Homer Boss and Winold Reiss. Portrait of Sem-Medeeks of Gitinanga, British Columbia from the Wellcome Collection. Motivated by a desire to document the disappearing aboriginal culture, he spent many years visiting and living with Indian tribes in the Western United States.