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Winold Reiss (September 16, 1886 – August 23, 1953) was a German-born American artist and graphic designer. He was born in Karlsruhe , Germany . In 1913 he immigrated to the United States, where he was able to follow his interest in Native Americans.
Winold Reiss was contracted to produce murals depicting workers in Cincinnati industries, for the new Cincinnati Union Terminal. To depict the foundry industry, he visited the Modern Foundry to get ideas and set a scene for one of the murals, called Foundry and Machine Shop Products .
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 ]
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He studied with the Art Students League, 1916–17, and was a pupil of Homer Boss and Winold Reiss. Portrait of Sem-Medeeks of Gitinanga, British Columbia from the Wellcome Collection. Motivated by a desire to document the disappearing aboriginal culture, he spent many years visiting and living with Indian tribes in the Western United States.
Winold Reiss, who may have been introduced to the project by Paul Philippe Cret, used his source material more faithfully. That may have been significant in Reiss's selection for the final works. [11] Reiss ended up designing nearly all of the terminal's artwork, including over 18,150 square feet (1,686 m 2) of mosaic murals. [13]
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