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The Winold Reiss industrial murals are a set of 16 tile mosaic murals displaying manufacturing in Cincinnati, Ohio. The works were created by Winold Reiss for Cincinnati Union Terminal from 1931 to 1932, and made up 11,908 of the 18,150 square feet of art in the terminal. [1]
CVG is the proud home of 5 Winold Reiss industrial murals. Originally a set of 16 tile mosaic murals, the works were created by Winold Reiss for Cincinnati Union Terminal from 1931 to 1932 and later moved to CVG in August 1973.
Ultimately there was space for 23 mosaic murals in the terminal building. Reiss would photograph local business and create his cartoons from these images, almost directly. For the two massive rotunda murals, Reiss created two timelines: one of the history of the United States, from the Native Americans to the ‘modern’ citizen, and one of ...
Jan 19, 2016 · Left side of the Union Terminal murals charts the history of the country through figures in the foreground. It is 1950 — let’s say — and after an arduous, three-hour journey via train, you step off onto the platform of Cincinnati’s Union Terminal.
Cincinnati Union Terminal features works of art throughout its interior spaces. The works of art originally included 23 mosaic murals, [60] totaling 18,150 square feet (1,686 m 2), [57] making it the largest collection of secular mosaics in the United States in 1933. [61]
The Terminal is unique and monumental manifestation of Art Deco architecture and interior decoration, clearly and profoundly representative of the modern style common in the United States in the 1930s and expressed on every level of its design: architecture, furniture, lighting fixtures, ventilators, floor design, ceiling designs, painted doors ...
Oct 15, 2016 · One of four large but intricate mosaic-tile murals inside the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, built in 1933 as Cincinnati Union Terminal, a passenger railroad station in the Queensgate neighborhood.
