Anton Josef Reiss

Pietà in St. Gereon in Cologne

Reiss' mention at the Düsseldorf Church of St. Mary's Conception

Anton Josef Reiss (born October 30, 1835 in Düsseldorf ; † January 31, 1900 there ) was a sculptor from Düsseldorf.

Live and act

Reiss (also Reiss) was the third child of Carl Peter Josef Reiss, a professional carter at the time , and Sophie Henriette Fink. His sisters Luise and Christine had been born before him. He received his training as a sculptor from Julius Bayerle (1826–1873), who later set up the first atelier for sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Wilhelm von Schadow . Before that, Reiss had attended the elementary class of Josef Wintergerst at the art academy in 1851 . He also attended Karl Ferdinand Sohn's class of antiquities from 1854 to 1855 and received lessons in anatomy and proportions from Heinrich Mücke . Josef Reiss was a member of the artists' association Malkasten and had his studio in the mid-1870s at Klosterstrasse 88, where he took in his widowed mother. At the beginning of the 1880s, Reiss had built a house on the corner plot of Kurfürstenstrasse 28 at Klosterstrasse 128. The owners of the neighboring house were among others the family of Gustav Rutz .

He devoted his work entirely to the church, his art was stylistically related to the art of the Nazarenes . For the marble Pietà for St. Gereon in Cologne, he orientated himself on "Italian (n) models, [ see above ] on the famous picture work by Michelangelo in St. Peter ".

Works (selection)

• Then after
  • a Madonna for the parish church of St. Maria Himmelfahrt
• Dusseldorf
  • allegorical figures on the facade of the town hall
  • Figure decorations, the cross above the altar and the Madonna in the Catholic parish church of St. Mary's Conception
  • the Way of the Cross in the Catholic parish church of St. Mary's Conception , together with his student Alexander Iven
  • the crescent moon Madonna on the Marian column on Maxplatz
  • the Calvary and figures of saints on the portal of the parish church of St. Lambertus
  • Tomb of Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow in the Golzheim cemetery
• Duisburg
  • the war memorial for those who fell in the Wars of Unification with the seat of Duisburgia , on the square on Königstrasse (unveiled in 1873, not preserved)
  • Mercator monument on Burgplatz in front of the town hall
• Grefrath near Neuss
  • Altars and figures of saints in the Catholic parish church of St. Stephen
• Hüls near Krefeld
  • High altar in the parish church of St. Cyriakus
• Cologne
  • the marble pietà in St. Gereon
• Neuss
  • Side altars in the Quirinus Minster

literature

• Friedrich Schaarschmidt: On the history of Düsseldorf art; especially in the XIX. Century . Ed .: Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia. Publishing house of the Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf 1902, XV. Chapter: Sculpture, p. 375–384, here p. 376 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Reiss, Anton Joseph . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 141 .
• Helga Becker: Anton Josef Reiss (1835–1900). Life and Work, Marburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-8288-3861-1 .
• Helga Becker: early works by the sculptor Anton Josef Reiss (1835–1900) . In: Rheinische Heimatpflege . 49th volume, 2012, pp. 257–272.
• Peter Bloch: Sculptures of the 19th century in the Rhineland. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1975, p. 53 and more often (limited preview, books.google.com ).
• Eduard Trier , Willy Weyres : 19th century art in the Rhineland: plastic. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1980, p. 317 (restricted preview books.google.de ).

Web links

Commons : Anton Josef Reiss  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reiss, Anton Josef . In: Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon. Life and works of the most famous visual artists . Prepared by Hermann Alexander Müller . 3rd, revised and updated edition up to the latest time. tape 5 : Vialle-Zyrlein. Supplements and corrections . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1901, p. 239 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive - Supplements).
2. ^ Civil status, births: October 30, 1835, Anton Joseph, S. of the carter Peter E. Reiss and the Sophie H. Fink, Düsseldorf. In: Düsseldorfer Zeitung. Supplement to no.316 , from November 22, 1835 ( uni-duesseldorf.de ).
3. ^ Civil status, births: October 3, 1825, Luise Gertrud, T. d. Carter Carl Peter Josef Reiss and Anne Jos. Hein. Fink in Düsseldorf. In: Düsseldorfer Zeitung. No. 278, of October 10, 1825 ( uni-duesseldorf.de ).
4. ↑ Civil status, July 2, 1833 Christine Pauline T. of the city Fuhrmanns Carl Peter tear and Sophie Henriette Fink. In: Düsseldorfer Zeitung. No. 166, from July 13, 1833 ( uni-duesseldorf.de ).
5. ↑ Finding aid 212.01.04. List of pupils from the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1830–1895: Reis, Joseph ( archive.nrw.de Excel), accessed on July 30, 2017.
6. ↑ Klosterstrasse 88: Reiss, sculptor; Reiss, Ww. Fink In: Address book of the Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf. 1878, p. 47 ( uni-duesseldorf.de ).
7. ↑ Klosterstraße 128, belongs to Kurfürstenstraße 28, Reiss, Bildhauer, E. (= owner). In: Address book of the mayor's office in Düsseldorf. 1883, p. 64 ( uni-duesseldorf.de ).
8. ↑ Klosterstrasse 128, Reiss, Jos., Sculptor, E. In: Address book of the Lord Mayor's Office in Düsseldorf. 1888, p. 124 ( uni-duesseldorf.de ).
9. ^ Peter Bloch: Sculptures of the 19th [ie nineteenth] century in the Rhineland. P. 53.
10. ^ Eduard Trier, Willy Weyres: 19th century art in the Rhineland: plastic. Schwann, 1980, p. 89.
11. ↑ ika.uni-bonn.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Master's thesis completed by Kier: Helga Becker: Altars and sculptures by Anton Josef Reiss in St. Stephanus in Grefrath near Neuss.