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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.
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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 ...
May 16, 2024 · Winold Reiss (born September 16, 1886, Karlsruhe, Germany—died August 29, 1953, New York, New York, U.S.) was a German-born American artist known for his portraits of Native Americans and African Americans. Reiss was deeply influenced by travels through his native German countryside with his father, a painter who made portraits of peasants.
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Aug 25, 2022 · Winold Reiss, an Immigrant Modernist Way Ahead of His Time The German-born artist brought his brand of modernism to the United States and was fascinated by all the different faces he could find...
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Artist Winold Reiss was born on September 16, 1886, in Karlsruhe, Germany. A gifted portraitist, Reiss challenged the convention of racial stereotyping by portraying African American, Native...
Winold Reiss was a uniquely gifted artist and designer of the twentieth century, a bold pioneer whose work included a rich variety of portraits, distinctive interiors, and a multitude of cutting-edge graphic designs that lifted the quality of color and black-and-white design in America.
Aug 5, 2022 · An exhibition at the New-York Historical Society surveys the work of the influential yet little-known German-born American artist, graphic designer and interior designer Winold Reiss...
This is Alain Leroy Locke by Winold Reiss from 1925. DENISE MURRELL: Reiss was an immigrant from Germany who became the principal illustrator of Alain Locke’s seminal book, The New Negro that was the philosophical foundation of the movement.
