Winold Reiss
Winold Reiss ( born September 16, 1886 in Karlsruhe, † August 29 1953 in New York City, New York ) was a German -American portrait painter, illustrator and designer, who worked and one in the first half of the 20th century in the United States had great influence on the development of Art Deco in the United States.
Biography
Reiss is the second son of the Black Forest painter Fritz Reiss ( 1857-1915 ). He learned at a young age the art world know through the activities and travels of his father. Portraying him was very familiar with before he and two friends went to America in 1913. He was fascinated from the beginning of his stay there, the Indians and African- Americans.
Reiss was influenced by the Viennese Secession and Art Nouveau. This has been emphasized in the design of two shops on Broadway in New York for the Busy Lady Baking Company, for which he so a company identity came the poster and packing material for the expression. He founded an art magazine, the Modern Art Collector, which existed from 1915 to 1918. At the same time, he designed more interiors, posters and illustrated books.
After Germany Reiss returned only for a short time in the years 1921 and 1922, before he settled in New York forever. In the 1930s, Reiss designed the Café Rumpelmayer in the newly built Hotel St. Moritz (New York), at No. 50 Central Park S. on the east side of 6th Avenue in Manhattan.
His most famous job was the interior design of the Cincinnati Union Terminal, now the Cincinnati Museum Center. There he led from 1933 to two years of work, two huge wall mosaics of the rotunda of the concourse in the format of each 6.7 m in height and 33.5 m in length from. In these mosaics, he combined his portrait art with the Art Deco. 14 small mosaics from the train station, on each of which the activities of several major corporations from Cincinnati were presented (eg, Procter & Gamble), came in 1973 in Terminals 1, 2 and 3 of the Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky International Airport in Boone County ( Kentucky), Kentucky. One reason for the relocation of the mosaics was the demolition of the railway station, 20 km northerly parts of Cincinnati and the construction of the new terminal at the airport.
Reiss ' most famous book illustrations are the was in which the culture of African Americans presented to the book The New Negro by Alain Locke in the 1920s.