| LC control no. | no2018024186 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Reuss, Albert, 1889-1975 |
| Variant(s) | Reiss, Albert, 1889-1975 |
| Located | Mousehole (England) |
| Birth date | 1889-10-02 |
| Death date | 1975 |
| Place of birth | Vienna (Austria) |
| Place of death | Penzance (England) |
| Affiliation | Künstlerbund Hagen |
| Profession or occupation | Painters Lithographers Printmakers |
| Found in | Soyinka, Susan. Albert Reuss in Mousehole, 2017: page 4 of cover (Albert Reuss (1889-1975) was a painter in oil whose work defies categorisation, but bears some elements of Impressionism and surrealism; born in Vienna, he emigrated from Austria to England in 1938 following Hitler's annexation of Austria; he continued to work as an artist in this country, but his style changed drastically, reflecting the trauma that he had suffered; in 1948, he and his wife Rosa moved to Mousehole, Cornwall) The British Museum, via WWW, February 23, 2018 (Albert Reuss (Biographical details); Albert Reuss (printmaker; German; Male; 1889--1975); lithographer; born to a large Jewish family in Vienna on 2 October 1889; his father was a butcher, originally from the former Hungary; born Reiss, but changed his name to Reuss in 1931; in 1916 he married his wife Rosa, nee Feinstein; self-taught, and learned his art by copying the works of the great masters he had seen in Viennese galleries and museums; became a member of the artist's association Hagenbund in 1932 and had his first exhibition in Chicago in the following year; first visited England in 1935, then following the Anschluss in 1938, was obliged to emigrate to England; he and Rosa moved to Mousehole, Cornwall, in 1948, where they remained for the rest of their lives; Albert died in Penzance in 1975) |
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