Winold Reiss

F. Winold Reiss (September 16, 1886 – August 23, 1953) was a German-born American artiste and graphic designer. He was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, the second son of Fritz Reiss (1857–1914) and his wife. He grew happening surrounded by art, as his dad was a well-known landscape performer and his brother became a sculptor.

Reiss became a portraitist. His philosophy was that an player must travel to find the most attractive subjects; influenced by his dad and his own curiosity, he drew subjects from many peoples and walks of life. In 1913 he immigrated to the United States, where he was practiced to follow his amalgamation in Native Americans. In 1920 he went West for the first time, working for a extended period on the Blackfeet Reservation. Over the years Reiss painted over 250 works depicting Native Americans. These paintings by Reiss became known more widely dawn in the 1920 and to the 1950s, when the Great Northern Railway commissioned Reiss to realize paintings of the Blackfeet which were next distributed widely as lithographed reproductions on Great Northern calendars.