Julia Ris
{{Short description|Swiss artist (1904–1991)}}
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{{Infobox artist
| name = Julia Ris
| birth_date = 21 September 1904
| birth_place = Kingston upon Hull, United Kingdom
| death_date = {{death date and age|1991|12|16|1904|09|21}}
| death_place = Basel, Switzerland
| other_names = {{Plainlist}}
- Julia Eble-Ris
- Julia Eble-Ries
- Julia Heid-Ris
- Julia Heid-Ries
{{endplainlist}}
| spouse = {{Plainlist}}
- {{marriage|Theo Eble|1925|end=divorced}}
- {{marriage|Fritz Heid|1956}}
{{endplainlist}}
| children = 1
| birth_name = Julia Ries
| alma_mater = Academy of Fine Arts
}}
Julia Ris (21 September 1904, Kingston upon Hull – 16 December 1991, Basel) was a Swiss painter, sculptor, and graphic artist.{{cite web |last1=Union List of Artist Names |title=Ris, Julia (Swiss painter, sculptor, and graphic artist, born 1904) |url=http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500166492 |website=Getty Research |publisher=J. Paul Getty Trust |location=Los Angeles |date=2011}}{{cite web |last1=SIKART Lexicon |title=Julia Ris |url=https://recherche.sik-isea.ch/sik:person-4001370/in/sikart/ |website=SIKART Lexicon |publisher=Swiss Institute for Art Research |access-date=4 April 2025 |location=Zurich |language=German}} She taught materials and drawing at the Gewerbeschule Basel, where she introduced students, including Jean Tinguely, to early 20th-century artistic movements such as Dada, Abstraction, and the Bauhaus.{{Cite web |title=Jean Tinguely |url=https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/jean-tinguely |access-date=29 April 2025 |website=Guggenheim, New York}}{{Cite web |title=Jean le Jeune |url=https://www.tinguely.ch/en/exhibitions/exhibitions/2002/jean-le-jeune.html |access-date=29 April 2025 |website=Museum Tinguely}}
Early life and education
Julia Ries was born on the 21 September 1904, to a German Jewish family in Kingston upon Hull.{{cite web |last1=The National Archives |title=HO 334/40/15110 : Naturalisation Certificate: Gustav Ries. From Germany. Resident in Kingston-upon-Hull. Certificate A15110 issued 22 February 1905. |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C11922541 |website=The National Archives' Website: Discovery. |access-date=6 April 2025}}{{cite book |last1=Riess |first1=Suzanne |last2=Ries |first2=Victor |title=Renaissance of Religious Art and Architecture in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1946-1968: Volume II |date=1985 |publisher=Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California |location=Berkeley |pages=499–546 |url=https://archive.org/embed/renaissanceofrel0002suza |access-date=6 April 2025 |chapter=Victor Ries: Religious Artistic Expression in Metal Sculpture}} Ris' father, Gustav Ries, was an importer and later owned a millinery factory, whilst Ris' mother, Agnes Ries née Siblerman, was a housewife and artist. Ris' had four siblings, the youngest of which was the American metal artist Victor Ries (1907 – 2013).{{cite web |last1=Union List of Artist Names |title=Ries, Victor (American metalworker and jeweler, born 1907) |url=https://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=Ries%2C+Victor&role=&nation=&prev_page=1&subjectid=500129375 |website=Getty Research |publisher=J. Paul Getty Trust |access-date=6 April 2025 |location=Los Angeles |date=2010}} The family returned to Germany sometime between 1905–1907 and settled in Berlin.{{cite book |last1=Riess |first1=Suzanne |last2=Ries |first2=Victor |title=Renaissance of Religious Art and Architecture in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1946-1968: Volume II |date=1985 |publisher=Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California |location=Berkeley |pages=499–546 |url=https://archive.org/embed/renaissanceofrel0002suza |access-date=6 April 2025 |chapter=Victor Ries: Religious Artistic Expression in Metal Sculpture}}
Education
From 1921–1925, Ris was educated at the Kunstgewerbeschule {{ref|a}} and the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin.{{cite journal |last1=Zehmisch |first1=Brigitte |title=Julia Ris |journal=Schweizer Kunst |date=1974 |volume=1974 |issue=7 |page=11 |publisher=Visarte Schweiz |location=Zurich |language=German}} In 1925, Ris married Swiss artist Theo Eble, a fellow classmate at the Academy of Fine Arts. Ris and Eble and moved to Eble's hometown of Basel, where Ris began to develop her work toward abstraction and reliefs. In 1935 their daughter, Doris Eva Eble, was born.{{cite web |last1=Kunstsammlung Sissach |title=Julia Ris: November |url=https://www.sissach-kunstsammlung.ch/werk/72 |website=Kunstsammlung Sissach |publisher=Gemeindeverwaltung Sissach; Kulturkommission |access-date=5 April 2025 |location=Sissach |language=German |date=2022}}
According to Jean Tinguely, both Ris and Eble studied at Bauhaus.{{cite book |last1=Daniels |first1=Dieter |last2=Tinguely |first2=Jean |editor1-last=Museum Jean Tinguely Basel |title=Marcel Duchamp |date=2002 |publisher=Hatje Cantz Verlag |location=Berlin |pages=155–167 |edition=1st |language=English |chapter=Often Neglected – But One of the Greats: Interview with Jean Tinguely by Dieter Daniels, Cologne, 12 January 1987}}
Career
From 1930–1957, Ris taught at the Gewerbeschule Basel applied arts department and sporadically created her own artworks. Ris' "material studies" class was based on the concepts of Bauhaus, and introduced students to the concept of creating collages using scrap and found materials such as metal, wood or cloth.{{cite book |editor1-last=Myers |editor1-first=Bernard S. |editor2-last=Myers |editor2-first=Shirely D. |title=McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Art: Volume 5 |date=1969 |publisher=McGraw-Hill Book Company |location=London |page=320 |chapter=Tinguely, Jean}}{{cite book |last1=Wheeler |first1=Daniel |title=Art since Mid-Century: 1945 to the Present |date=1991 |publisher=Vendome Press |location=New York |isbn=0865650837 |pages=230–242 |chapter=Op, Kinetic, and Light Art}}{{cite web |last1=Schuppli |first1=Madeleine |title=Theo Eble |url=https://recherche.sik-isea.ch/sik:person-4000297/in/sikart/ |website=SIKART Lexicon |publisher=Swiss Institute for Art Research |access-date=2 April 2025 |location=Zurich |language=German |date=2016}}{{cite book |editor1-last=Andrews |editor1-first=Deborah |title=The Annual Obituary. 1991 |date=1992 |isbn=155862175X |pages=516–518 |edition=91st |chapter=Jean Tinguely|publisher=St. James Press }}{{cite book |last1=Trudeau |first1=Lawrence J. |title=Modern Arts Criticism: Volume 4 |date=1994 |publisher=Gale Research |location=Detroit |isbn=0-8103-8311-X |pages=282–306 |chapter=Jean Tinguely 1925-1991: Swiss multimedia artist}} Ris' students included Beatrice Afflerbach{{cite journal |last1=Schifferle |first1=Judith |title=Bea Afflerbach: Die erste diplomierte Grafikerin der Schweiz kam aus Basel |journal=Bz Basel |date=2022 |url=https://www.bzbasel.ch/kultur/basel/bea-afflerbach-die-erste-diplomierte-grafikerin-der-schweiz-kam-aus-basel-ld.2286120 |access-date=4 April 2025 |publisher=Luedin |location=Basel |language=German}} and Jean Tinguely.{{cite web |last1=Bezzola |first1=Tobia |title= Jean Tinguely |url= https://recherche.sik-isea.ch/sik:person-4022334/in/sikart/ |website=SIKART Lexicon |publisher=Swiss Institute for Art Research |access-date=4 April 2025 |location=Zurich |language=German |date=2010}} Ris is credited with introducing Tinguely to the work of Kurt Schwitters, Paul Klee, and to other artists interested in representations of movement (notably the Italian Futurists).
Ris was a member of the ″Allianz, Vereinigung moderner Schweizer Künstler″ (Alliance, Association of Modern Swiss Artists), and exhibited with the group in 1947. In 1956, Ris married the Swiss artist {{Interlanguage link|Fritz Heid|de}} (1916–2010){{cite web |last1=SIKART Lexicon |title=Fritz Heid |url=https://recherche.sik-isea.ch/sik:person-4000715/in/sikart/ |website=SIKART Lexicon |publisher=Swiss Institute for Art Research |access-date=5 April 2025 |location=Zurich |language=German}} In 1967, Ris and Held were joint artists-in-residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts{{cite web |title=Künstleratelier Kanton Basel-Stadt |url=https://recherche.sik-isea.ch/en/sik:award-196710831408/in/sikart/award?0.0.type=actor&0.0.@id=sik:person-4001370&0.type=actor |website=SIKART Lexicon |publisher=Swiss Institute for Art Research |access-date=22 April 2025 |language=German}}{{cite journal |last1=Heid |first1=Fritz |title=Artikel: Fritz Heid |journal=Schweizer Kunst |date=1977 |volume=1977 |issue=3 |pages=7 |publisher=Visarte Schweiz |location=Zurich |language=German}} From 1970–1977 Ris taught at the Technical University of Basel, and lived in Sissach.
=Filmography=
- TINGUELY (2011) Directed by Thomas Thümena, Switzerland. As self (credited as Julia Eble-Ris){{cite web |title=TINGUELY |url=https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/tinguely |website=Mubi |access-date=21 April 2025 |location=London}}
=Public Artwork=
- Julia Ris (1967) "Ohne Titel" ("Untitled"). Stained glass. University of Basel, Switzerland{{cite web |author1=Kanton Basel-Stadt |title=Kunstschaffende: Julia Ris |url=https://data.bs.ch/explore/dataset/100214/images/?disjunctive.gruppe&disjunctive.ku_name&disjunctive.datierung&disjunctive.rueckbau&refine.ku_name=Julia+Ris&location=14,47.56317,7.58348&basemap=9fffa5 |website=Kunst im öffentlichen Raum |publisher=Kanton Basel-Stadt |access-date=23 April 2025 |location=Basel |language=German}}{{cite web |last1=Zürcher |first1=Isabel |title=Kunstwissenschaft: Kunst im öffentlichen Raum – Dokumentationen |url=https://www.isabel-zuercher.ch/kunst-im-%C3%B6ffentlichen-raum |website=ISABEL ZÜRCHER |access-date=23 April 2025 |language=German |date=2022}}
=Exhibitions=
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! scope="col" | Date(s) ! scope="col" | Title ! scope="col" | Place ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Type ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | Notes ! scope="col" class="unsortable" | {{Reference heading}} |
| scope="row" | 1942
| ″Julia Ris and Meret Oppenheim″ | Galerie d'art moderne Marie-Suzanne Feigel, Basel, Switzerland | Group exhibition | | style="text-align:center;" |{{cite book |author1=Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna |title=Meret Oppenheim: Eine andere Retrospektive |publisher=Edition Stemmle |location=Zurich, New York |isbn=3-908161-08-8 |page=227 |language=German, English |chapter=Anhang: Gruppenausstellungen|date=1997 }} |
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| scope="row" | 18 October – 23 November 1947
| ″Allianz. Vereinigung moderner Schweizer Künstler″ | Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland | Group exhibition | |
| scope="row" | 10 June – 15 July 1950
| ″Réalités Nouvelles. 5ème Salon″ | Palais des beaux-arts, Paris, France | Group exhibition | Part of ″Salon des Réalités Nouvelles″ |
| scope="row" | 2 December – 31 December 1950
| ″Weihnachtsausstellung 1950″ | Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland | Group exhibition | |
| scope="row" | 9 May – 24 June 1951
| ″International Water Color Exhibition. Sixteenth Biennial″ | The Brooklyn Museum, New York City, United States | Group exhibition | |
| scope="row" | 8 September – 28 October 1951
| ″Malerei″ | style="text-align:center;" | Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland & Schulwarte Bern, Bern, Switzerland | Travelling group exhibition | Part of the ″Schweizerische Kunstausstellung Bern 1951″ |
| scope="row" | 8 September – 28 October 1951
| ″Plastik, Wandteppiche″ | style="text-align:center;" | Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland & Schulwarte Bern, Bern, Switzerland | Travelling group exhibition | Part of the ″Schweizerische Kunstausstellung Bern 1951″ |
| scope="row" | 8 September – 28 October 1951
| ″Zeichnung, Graphik″ | style="text-align:center;" | Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland & Schulwarte Bern, Bern, Switzerland | Travelling group exhibition | Part of the ″Schweizerische Kunstausstellung Bern 1951″ |
| scope="row" | 14 March –14 April 1963
| | M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, United States | Group exhibition | Joint exhibition with Victor Ries | style="text-align:center;" |{{cite journal |title=Brother, Sister Art Exhibit Set |journal=Daily Independent Journal |date=1963 |volume=102 |issue=297 |page=6 |url=https://archive.org/embed/san-rafael-daily-independent-journal-1963-03-06 |access-date=8 April 2025 |location=San Rafael, California}} |
| scope="row" | 24 October – 19 November 1964
| "Julia Ris – Fritz Held" | Galerie Staffelei, Zurich, Switzerland | Group exhibition | | style="text-align:center;" |{{cite magazine |title=Ausstellungskalender |journal=Das Werk: Architektur und Kunst |date=1964 |volume=51 |issue=11: Objektive Architektur |page=270 |language=German}} |
| scope="row" | 24 August – 29 September 1974
| ″Vier Basler Künstlern zum Geburtstag: Julia Ris, Albert Schilling, Max Sulzbachner, Alexander Zschokke″ | Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland | Group exhibition | |
| scope="row" | 3 September – 30 September 1989
| ″4 Jahrzehnte Kunst in Baselland 1945-1989″ | Schloss Ebenrain, Sissach, Switzerland | Group exhibition | |
| scope="row" | 6 May – 30 June 2011
| ″Abstractions″ | Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, United States | Group exhibition | | style="text-align:center;" |{{cite web |author1=Woman Made Gallery |title=Past Exhibitions: Abstractions |url=https://womanmade.org/artwork/abstractions/ |website=Woman Made Gallery |access-date=21 April 2025}} |
See also
Notes
:1.{{note|a}} Possibly the {{Interlanguage link|Kunstgewerbe- und Handwerkerschule (Berlin)|de|}} or the {{Interlanguage link|Unterrichtsanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseums Berlin|de|}}.
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