ALBERT REUSS* ( Vienna 1889 - 1975 Mousehole, Cornwall )

ALBERT REUSS* ( Vienna 1889 - 1975 Mousehole, Cornwall )
Poster design O'Hana Gallery
mixed media/cardboard 56,2 x 39,9 cm
verso artist stamp Albert Reuss, stamp Collection Chrastek

SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE °€ 150 - 300
STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE °€ 150

Austrian painter and sculptor of the 20th century. Representative of exile art, belongs to the so-called lost or forgotten generation. Came from a Jewish family and initially worked as an actor. As a painter self-taught, exhibited from the 1920s in the Vienna Secession, the Hagenbund and the Würthle Gallery. From 1932 member of the Hagenbund. From the mid-1930s also sculptor, 1935 stay at Bedfordshire estate in England. 1938 emigration via London to Mousehole in Cornwall. His wife ran the gallery ARRA Gallery with artists such as Jack Pender or Alexander Mackenzie of the artist colony St. Ives. Lifelong friendship with gallery owner Jacques O'Hana. Early influences of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, then influences of expressive Carinthian painting. After emigration, development of style in the direction of New Objectivity and Surrealism. Landscapes with figures and individual objects in increasingly cool and restrained colors and monochrome surfaces. Colorfulness, mysteriousness and the static, frontal posture of the female torso comparable to works by Paul Delvaux. Composition and mood, calm, melancholy and contemplation comparable similar in the works of Josef Floch. In 1953, through the mediation of art critic Kenneth Romney Towndrow, a collaboration with the renowned O'Hana Gallery began, a collaboration that would last 20 years. Jacques O'Hana, a brother of the French composer Maurice Ohana, specialized in French Impressionists. The gallery's headquarters were in London, where his first solo exhibition took place from April to May 1953. The relationship between art dealer and artist was initially strained; O'Hana tried in vain to persuade Reuss to focus on friendlier and more easily marketable subjects. The relationship developed into a friendship, and O'Hana became one of Reuss's most important sponsors and supporters. In 1966, the gallery owner made his first visit to Mousehole. Further artists and styles: Landscape, Beach, Oil painting, Portrait, Expressionism

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