Herbert von Reyl-Hanisch

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Self-portrait 1927
The Persecution (1932)
Portrait of a Girl in Front of an Alpine Landscape (around 1935)

Herbert Reyl-Hanisch von Greifenthal (born July 28, 1898 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died June 11, 1937 in Bregenz ) was an Austrian painter.

Life

Von Reyl-Hanisch was the son of an Austrian professional soldier and therefore grew up in Krakow and Prague, among others . His father died at the beginning of the First World War , and he himself was exempt from military service because of a lung disease. From 1917 he studied, initially at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Hans Tichy and then at the Vienna School of Applied Arts with Wilhelm Müller-Hofmann (1885–1948). With the Nobility Repeal Act , his name changed. Since graduating in 1920, Reyl-Hanisch worked as a freelance artist and made a living from landscape and portrait painting.

In 1923 Reyl-Hanisch first took part in an exhibition at the Vienna Secession . He was accepted into the “ Old World ” artist association . In 1923, 1929, 1930 and 1933 he toured Italy, and in 1935 Great Britain and the Netherlands. Around 1928 he became friends with the painter Franz Sedlacek . He moved to Bregenz around 1934, but suffered setbacks in health and died of a hemorrhage .

Works (selection)

Some of his works were from January 25th to March 18th, 2001 in the exhibition Herbert v. Reyl-Hanisch (1898–1937), selection of works can be seen in the exhibition room of the Institute for Art History at the University of Innsbruck and from March 23 to April 29, 2001 in the house of the Rohner Private Foundation, Lauterach / Bregenz.

  • He made designs for book covers, including for the novel The Holiest War by Egmont Colerus .
  • His self-portrait from 1927, which shows him in the blue jacket, was used as the title page for the Italian translation of the novel Swedish Förvillelser , German ' Verirrungen ' , Italian Smarrimenti by Hjalmar Söderberg .

literature

Web links

Commons : Herbert von Reyl-Hanisch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Old World in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  2. ^ Hjalmar Emil Fredrik Söderberg: Smarrimenti . Lindau, Turin 2015, ISBN 978-88-6708-353-4 ( archive.org - Swedish: Förvillelser . Translated by Massimo Ciaravolo).