Reuss Albert (Vienna 1889 - 1975 Redruth, Cornwall)
Albert Reuss was born in Vienna. He did an apprenticeship at a horsemans workshop, then at a butchers, worked as an actor and as an operetta singer. He found very late to art in his professional life. When a neurological illness forced him to give up the theater, he dedicated himself entirely to painting, which had been only a passion and a hobbby before. The style of his paintings in the late twenties was highly expressive using lively vivi colours. In 1930 a maecen supported him in sponsoring him an entire year at the French Riviera. The landscapes, stillifes and figures which he painted in France, were exhibited in 1931 at Galerie Würthle in Vienna. His first group exhibition at Galerie Würthle was already in 1926. In 1932 Reuss became a member of the Hagenbund.
In 1938, being a Jewish artist, he had to emigrate to England. At the beginning of the war he was put into an internation camp, but was soon released. He exhibited in local British art galleries and stated about London art dealers "I became so pessimistic that I was completely uniterested in my own and everything that happened to me..." Finally Reuss moved to a small village in Cornwall, Mousehole, and continued to paint intensively. His paintings got more and more somber and showed his psychological state and sad feelings of that time. He called his works "works of loneliness".
Albert Reuss was born in Vienna. He did an apprenticeship at a horsemans workshop, then at a butchers, worked as an actor and as an operetta singer. He found very late to art in his professional life. When a neurological illness forced him to give up the theater, he dedicated himself entirely to painting, which had been only a passion and a hobbby before. The style of his paintings in the late twenties was highly expressive using lively vivi colours. In 1930 a maecen supported him in sponsoring him an entire year at the French Riviera. The landscapes, stillifes and figures which he painted in France, were exhibited in 1931 at Galerie Würthle in Vienna. His first group exhibition at Galerie Würthle was already in 1926. In 1932 Reuss became a member of the Hagenbund.
In 1938, being a Jewish artist, he had to emigrate to England. At the beginning of the war he was put into an internation camp, but was soon released. He exhibited in local British art galleries and stated about London art dealers "I became so pessimistic that I was completely uniterested in my own and everything that happened to me..." Finally Reuss moved to a small village in Cornwall, Mousehole, and continued to paint intensively. His paintings got more and more somber and showed his psychological state and sad feelings of that time. He called his works "works of loneliness".
