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Birth
1886 (Karlsruhe, Germany)
Death
1953 (Carson City, Nevada)
Lived/Active
New York/Montana / Germany
Subject to Copyright
Often Known For
Indian portrait and mural painting, illustration
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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 w (showing 500 of 12567 characters). |
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