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Born in Budapest, Albert Reuss turned to fine art at a relatively late stage in his life. He trained to become a groom, then became a butcher's apprentice, he worked as an actor and as an operetta singer. When a neurological illness forced him to give up the theatre, he dedicated himself entirely to painting, which had merely been a passion and a hobby before. The style of his paintings in the late twenties was highly expressive; he applied pastose layers of paint using vivid colours. In 1930, a maecen offered to fund a one-year stay at the French Riviera. The landscapes, still lifes and figures which he painted in France, were exhibited in 1931 at Galerie Würthle in Vienna. where he had previously shown his art in a group exhibition as early as 1926. In 1931, Reuss became a member of the Hagenbund. In 1938, being a Jewish artist, he had to emigrate to England. At the beginning of the war he was interned but soon released. He exhibited in local British art galleries and stated about London art dealers, "I became so pessimistic that I no longer cared about what was happening to me to me..." In 1948, Reuss moved to the village of Mousehole in Cornwall where he continued to paint intensively. His painting became increasingly sombre as was his state of mind at the time. He called the fruits of his labour "works of loneliness".  In 1975, They were shown at at BAWAG Foundation.


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