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Thomas Riss (also Riss ; born December 4, 1871 in Haslach, Stams municipality ; † October 27, 1959 in Innsbruck ) was an Austrian painter.

Thomas Riss 1894

Life

After a short stay in Innsbruck, Riss worked with Anton Colli in Cortina d'Ampezzo , where he earned his living with pyrography . From 1890 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , first with Johann Caspar Herterich and Ludwig von Löfftz , and in 1892/93 in Franz von Defregger's composing class . After three years of military service, which he used to copy old masters in the picture galleries, and a serious illness, he settled in Merano . In the First World War he fought as a rifleman on the southern front on the Marmolada and worked as a war painter. In 1926 he moved to Mühlau (a district of Innsbruck since 1938), where he lived until his death in 1959.

Riss created portraits and landscapes with Tyrolean motifs, as well as religious images. The portrait of an American couple led to an invitation to the USA, where he enjoyed great success and won a gold medal with his painting The Old Worker at the 1904 World Exhibition in St. Louis . Portraits of the Tyrolean Standschützen, printed as postcards, made him famous. Immediately after the annexation of Austria , he created a portrait of Adolf Hitler depicting him as a general. Works by Thomas Riss can be found in the City Museum Meran and the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck. Celebrated during his lifetime and compared to Franz von Defregger and Albin Egger-Lienz , he was quickly forgotten after his death.

Honors

Thomas Riss was awarded the Austrian Cross of Merit for Art and Science and the Decoration of Honor of the State of Tyrol . He received the professional title of professor and in 1956 the ring of honor of the city of Innsbruck. The street that passed his former home in Mühlau was named Thomas-Riss-Weg . His home town of Stams granted him honorary citizenship and also named a path after him.

literature

  • Painter Thomas Riß, new holder of the Innsbruck Ring of Honor. In: Official Journal of the State Capital Innsbruck, No. 12, December 1956, pp. 7–8 ( digitized version )
  • Farewell to honorary ring holder Thomas Riss. In: Official Journal of the State Capital Innsbruck, No. 11, December 1959, pp. 8–9 ( digitized version )
  • Hans-Peter Ofer: Thomas Riss: Artists at the dawn of a new era. Innsbruck: Tyrolia 2002. ISBN 3-7022-2463-7
  • Sybille-Karin Moser: Tyrolean pictures and their representation in the fine arts: Painting in Tyrol 1830-1900. In: Paul Naredi-Rainer, Lukas Madersbacher (Ed.): Art in Tirol. Volume 2: From the Baroque to the Present (= Art History Studies - Innsbruck. NF Vol. 4). Tyrolia et al., Innsbruck et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-7022-2775-3 , pp. 519-560 ( PDF; 1.1 MB )
  • Carl Kraus , Hannes Obermair (ed.): Myths of dictatorships. Art in Fascism and National Socialism - Miti delle dittature. Art nel fascismo e nazionalsocialismo . South Tyrolean State Museum for Cultural and State History Castle Tyrol, Dorf Tirol 2019, ISBN 978-88-95523-16-3 , p. 76-77, 220-221 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carl Kraus, Hannes Obermair (ed.): Myths of dictatorships. Art in Fascism and National Socialism - Miti delle dittature. Art nel fascismo e nazionalsocialismo . South Tyrolean State Museum for Cultural and State History Castle Tyrol, Dorf Tirol 2019, ISBN 978-88-95523-16-3 , p. 76–77 (with ill.) .
  2. ↑ Josefine Justic: Innsbruckerstraße name. Where do they come from and what they mean . Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7022-3213-9 , p. 220 .
  3. ↑ Municipal council resolutions of May 29, 2000 (PDF; 10 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Riss, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riss, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Stams
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1959
Place of death innsbruck