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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]
The murals portray 35 workers of industries within Cincinnati, Ohio and are meant celebrate labor, a common theme for art at the time. Each mural is a silhouette mosaics, using nickel-size colored glass tile, trimmed, and shaped individually, imbedded in tinted mortar.
Sep 27, 2023 · There are 22. But you want to know more, don't you? OK, yes, there are some at the Cincinnati Museum Center, but exhibit specialist Nick Massa knows where they all are. RELATED: What happened...
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 ...
Reiss's combination of flat angular designs and bold, eye-popping color distinguished his work. In 1933 Reiss was appointed assistant professor of Mural Painting at New York University's College of Fine Arts, after he had completed his most ambitious mural commission, the mosaic murals in the Cincinnati Union Railroad Terminal.
Feb 5, 2016 · The Winold Reiss industrial murals are monuments to making. Each of the 23 mosaics is a testament to man and machine in Cincinnati. The quiet dignity of both work and the worker celebrated in...
Dec 29, 2013 · After laboring for 80 years in anonymity, with no days off and no raises, the 35 workers on the industrial mosaic murals of Union Terminal have finally been identified. We know who’s who ...
