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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.
When Paul Cret and Roland Wank reworked the original Union Terminal design, they created space inside the terminal for a vast collection of public art. The biggest set of these spaces was set aside for a series of murals that would depict the cultural heritage of the United States and Cincinnati, with a particular emphasis on local industry.
This and 17 other murals hung in the concourse of Cincinnati's Union Terminal until it was demolished in 1974. The workers are Ernest Cording, left and Jack Youkilis , right.
One of the most recognizable things about Union Terminal are the murals that adorn the rotunda. The next part of our tour took us through the passageways directly behind the walls that the murals adorn. In here, some of the challenges facing the building are very evident.
The murals depict the history of Cincinnati, the people involved with the engineering and construction of Union Terminal, as well as the various industries in the area. Treatment for these iconic mosaics included surface cleaning, washing the glass tiles with a mild solution, patching and repairing of the tinted mortar in the background as ...
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.
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.
That was long before the art deco National Historic Landmark became today's tourist and cultural attraction, the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal. The estimated cost to move the...
The Union Terminal train concourse displaying them was set to be demolished. The second save? After officials announced plans to raze the airport terminals, the city rallied to bring them...