Albert Reuss biography:
Reuss was born in Vienna. He became a self-taught artist, inspired by the works of great masters he had seen in museum exhibitions. In 1930, he was supported by a patron to spend a year on the French Riviera, which was followed by his first solo exhibition at the renowned gallery Würthle in Vienna in 1931. Reuss became a member of the artist’s association ‘Hagenbund’ in 1932 and had his first exhibition in Chicago in the following year. The political circumstances required his emigration to England in 1938, where he became a permanent resident in Mousehole, Cornwall, since 1948. His mature works are characterized by surrealist tendencies. His mental situation influenced however his later artistic output which the artist described as ‘works of loneliness’. In recent years, the artist has moved back into the awareness due to the interest in the emigrated ‘lost generation’. Today, his works are included in a number of public art collections, such as the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Tel Aviv Museum in Israel, the Albertina in Vienna and the Museum of Art in Ohio.

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