Karl Julius Heinrich Revy

Karl Julius Heinrich Revy and his wife

Karl Julius Heinrich Revy (pseudonym: Heinrich von Greißing ; born August 8, 1883 in Föherczeglak , † March 10, 1949 in Goslar ) was an Austrian painter and sculptor .

Ceramic relief in Operngasse 26 in Vienna

Portal relief at the Stadtbad in Mödling

Life

Born as the son of a senior engineer and grandson of the Germanist Karl Julius Schröer , Revy studied history , zoology , German , pedagogy , natural history and art history after attending grammar school at the University of Vienna , then visual arts at the arts and crafts school of the Austrian Museum for Art and Industry in Vienna . During his studies in 1905 he became a member of the Silesia fraternity in Vienna . From 1906 to 1908 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Siegmund L'Allemand , in the winter semester 1908/09 with Heinrich Lefler , in the winter semester 1910/11 with Alois Delug .

Revy was a member of the artists' association Hagenbund from 1912 to 1922 , from 1924 to 1939 a member of the Vienna Secession and from 1939 at the Vienna Künstlerhaus . During the First World War he worked as a war painter in Italy and Russian Poland . He created portraits and landscapes in oils, watercolors and etchings. From 1925 he was mainly active as a sculptor . He created numerous house signs and grave monuments in Lower Austria .

He was president of the Vienna Bull Terrier Club .

Act. (Oil painting, exhibited in 1913 at the 38th annual exhibition in the Künstlerhaus Vienna)
Three nestlings. (Oil painting, exhibited in 1913 at the 38th annual exhibition in the Künstlerhaus Vienna)
Construction of the Marienbrücke. (1914, oil painting, Historical Museum of the City of Vienna )
Scenes from the First World War. (Watercolors, Army History Museum Vienna)
The fencers. (1928, oil painting)
Saber mensorship. (1928, lithograph)
Portal relief. (1928, Stadtbad Mödling)
At the Heuriger. (1932, sandstone relief, Historical Museum of the City of Vienna)
Sucking bitch. (1933, sandstone relief, Historical Museum of the City of Vienna)
Memorial plaque for the Invalidenhaus. (1936, relief, Invalidenstrasse 17 in Vienna)
Papageno. (1937, ceramic relief, Operngasse 26 in Vienna)
Mountain deer in the Niedere Tauern. (1939 exhibited at the exhibition Mountains and People of the Ostmark in the Künstlerhaus Vienna)

Revy, Karl Julius Heinrich. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 9, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1988,ISBN 3-7001-1483-4, p. 103.
Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 576-577.

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personal data
SURNAME	Revy, Karl Julius Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Heinrich von Greißing (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 8, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Föherczeglak
DATE OF DEATH	March 10, 1949
Place of death	Goslar