Heinrich Révy

From 1904-06 Austrian painter and sculptor Heinrich Révy studied at the University of Wien (Vienna) in history, zoology, German, pedagogics, natural history and art history. In 1904 he then turned to the fine arts and studied at the School of Applied Arts of the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry in Wien. In 1906-08 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts.

During World War I Révy was an official war painter in Italy and Poland. He was a versatile painter (portraits and landscapes in oil, watercolors and etchings), but from about 1925 mainly worked as a sculptor. Under the pseudonym Heinrich von Greißing he tried to establish a new identity. He was first a member of the Hagenbund, and in 1925 joined the Vienna Secession and the Vienna Künstlerhaus.

There is an oil painting by Heinrich Révy, which was created in 1927 under the title The Fencers. The 1928 art catalog only gives the French title Les Combatteurs.