Anton Josef Reiss

Born in Düsseldorf, Reiss was the third child of Carl Peter Josef Reiß, who worked then as a coachman, and Sophie Henriette Fink.Civilstand, Geburten: [http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/ulbdzd/periodical/pageview/9119944?query=Anton%20Joseph%20Reiss 30 October 1835, Anton Joseph, S. of Peter E. Reiß, carter, and Sophie H. Fink, Düsseldorf]. In Düsseldorfer Zeitung, appendix to No. 316, 22 November 1835, (uni-duesseldorf.de). His sisters were Luise and Christine.Civilstand, Geburten: [http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/ulbdzd/periodical/pageview/9210437?query=Civilstand%20Reiß 3 October 1825, Luise Gertrud, T. d. Fuhrmanns Carl Peter Josef Reiß und der Anne Jos. Hein. Fink in Düsseldorf.] In Düsseldorfer Zeitung. No. 278, 10 October 1825, (uni-duesseldorf.de).Civilstand, Geburten:[http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/ulbdzd/periodical/pageview/9181251?query=Civilstand%20Reiß2 July 1833: Christine Pauline, T. des Stadtfuhrmanns Carl Peter Reiß und der Sophie Henriette Fink.] In Düsseldorfer Zeitung. No. 166, 13 July 1833, (uni-duesseldorf.de). He received his training as a sculptor from Julius Bayerle (1826–1873),{{rp|22}} who later established the first studio for sculpture at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under the direction of Wilhelm von Schadow. Before that, Reiss had attended the elementary class of Joseph Wintergerst at the Kunstakademie in 1851. He also attended Karl Ferdinand Sohn's antiquities class from 1854 to 1855 and received lessons in anatomy and proportions from Heinrich Mücke.Findbuch 212.01.04. List of pupils at the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts from 1830–1895: Reis, Joseph Josef Reiss was a member of the Malkasten artists group, and had his studio in the mid-1870s at Klosterstraße 88, where he took in his widowed mother.Klosterstr. 88: Reiß, sculptor; Reiß, Ww. née Fink In Adreßbuch der Oberbürgermeisterei Düsseldorf. 1878, {{p.|47}} ([http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/ihd/periodical/pageview/8463652?query=Fuhrmann%20Reiß uni-duesseldorf.de]). In the early 1880s, Reiss built a home for himself on the corner plot of Kurfürstenstraße 28 at Klosterstraße 128.Klosterstraße 128, belongs to Kurfürstenstraße 28, Reiß, Bildhauer, E. (owner). In Adreßbuch der Oberbürgermeisterei Düsseldorf. 1883, {{p.|64}} ([http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/ihd/periodical/pageview/8433081?query=Reiß%20Klosterstraße uni-duesseldorf.de]). The owner of the neighbouring house was, among others, Gustav Rutz's family.Klosterstraße 128, Reiß, Jos., Bildhauer, E. In: Adreßbuch der Oberbürgermeisterei Düsseldorf. 1888, {{p.|124}} ([http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/ihd/periodical/pageview/8428716?query=Reiß%20Klosterstraße uni-duesseldorf.de]).

He devoted his work entirely to the church, in a style similar to the Nazarene movement.Peter Bloch: Skulpturen des 19. Jahrhunderts im Rheinland. {{p.|53}}. For his marble Pietà for St. Gereon in Cologne,{{rp|88}} he looked at Italian models, including Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.Eduard Trier, Willy Weyres: [https://books.google.com/books?id=PlXqAAAAMAAJ&q=Mercator Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts im Rheinland: Plastik.] Schwann, 1980, {{p.|89}}. He created a new Calvary next to Düsseldorf's {{ill|St. Lambertus, Düsseldorf|de|St. Lambertus (Düsseldorf)|lt=St. Lambertus}}, replacing a late-Gothic group sculpture of seven figures which had fallen into disrepair.{{rp|477}}

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• Andernach
• Madonna, wood carving, {{ill|Maria Himmelfahrt, Andernach|de|Maria Himmelfahrt (Andernach)|lt=Maria Himmelfahrt}}.
• Cologne
• Marble Pietà in St. Gereon (1897).{{sfn|Becker|2017|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=CZR4DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA37 37]}}
• Düsseldorf
• Allegorical figures on the facade of the new town hall, {{ill|Neues Rathaus, Düsseldorf|de|Neues Rathaus (Düsseldorf)|lt=Neues Rathaus}}.
• Sculptures, the cross above the altar and the Madonna in {{ill|St. Mariä Empfängnis (Düsseldorf)|de|St. Mariä Empfängnis (Düsseldorf)|lt=St. Mariä Empfängnis}}.
• Stations of the Cross in St. Mariä Empfängnis, with his student {{ill|Alexander Iven|de}}.
• Madonna on the {{ill|Mariensäule, Düsseldorf|de|Mariensäule (Düsseldorf)|lt=Mariensäule}} on the Maxplatz.
• New Calvary and figures of saints at the portal of {{ill|St. Lambertus, Düsseldorf|de|St. Lambertus (Düsseldorf)|lt=St. Lambertus}}.
• Grave site of Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow at the {{ill|Golzheim Cemetery|de|Golzheimer Friedhof}}.
• Duisburg
• War memorial for soldiers of the Unification Wars with the seated Duisburgia on the square on Königstraße (unveiled in 1873, not preserved).
• Monument to Gerardus Mercator on {{ill|Burgplatz, Duisburg|de|Burgplatz (Duisburg)|lt=Burgplatz}} in front of the town hall.
• Grefrath
• Altars and figures of saints in St. Stephanus.Becker, Helga: Altars and Sculptures by Anton Josef Reiß in St. Stephanus in Grefrath near Neuss. (Master's thesis)
• Hüls
• High altar in St. Cyriakus.
• Neuss
• Side altars in St. Quirinus

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• {{cite book |last = Schaarschmidt | first = Friedrich|publisher=Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen|title=Zur Geschichte der Düsseldorfer Kunst; insbesondere im XIX. Jahrhunder|location=Düsseldorf|date=190|chapter=XV. Kapitel: Die Bildhauerkunst|pages=375–384, here p.376|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/zurgeschichteder00scha/page/374/mode/2up}}
• Becker, Helga: Frühwerke des Bildhauers Anton Josef Reiss (1835–1900). In Rheinische Heimatpflege. 49th year, 2012, {{p.|257|272}}.
• Bloch, Peter: [https://books.google.com/books?id=4WPqAAAAMAAJ&q=Reiss books.google.com Skulpturen des 19. Jahrhunderts im Rheinland.] Schwann, Düsseldorf 1975, {{p.|53}} a.o..

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