 Edmund
Lewandowski
was
not
only
a painter,
but a mosaic artist.
Mosaic
is
the art of
creating images out of small pieces of colored glass or stone.
Lewandowski used small glass tiles to produce beautiful mosaic
murals.
The mosaics were permanently installed inside of a building, or on the
exterior
wall of the building. Lewandowski’s mosaics are a form of public
art
since they were created and sited for specific public spaces.
The images below depict two of Lewandowski’s most important mosaics. One he produced for the Allen Bradley Company in Milwaukee. Allen Bradley produced electronic circuitry and his mosaic mural represents the idea of wiring electronic equipment. The other mosaic represented below is the Milwaukee War Memorial. Edmund Lewandowski, a veteran of World War II, was asked by architect Eero Saarinen to transform the west-facing wall of the Milwaukee War Memorial Center into a tribute to honor those who gave their lives in service to their country from 1941 to 1945 in World War II and from 1950 to 1953 in the Korean Conflict. Unveiled on Veterans Day 1959, the 1,440,000-piece mosaic features Roman numerals representing the dates of World War II and the Korean Conflict: MCMXLI –
1941 MCMXLV – 1945
MCML – 1950 MCMLIII – 1953
 Click on image to advanceFor more information
about the War Memorial go to http://www.warmemorialcenter.org/index.html
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This retrospective exhibition was organized by the Flint Institute of Arts and has been made possible at Winthrop University in part by Williams & Fudge, Inc. with additional support provided by Patrons of Winthrop University Galleries. |
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