button button button button button button button button button button button button

Archived News Article

Cradle of Industry opens Jan. 16 at the Grohmann Museum

Published: 01/11/2009 Bookmark and Share
Cradle of Industry opens Jan. 16 at the Grohmann Museum

     From the commencement of coal mining in the 1830s, the Ruhr Valley Coal Basin provided the foundation for the creation of the largest industrial region of Europe: The Ruhr Region, or Ruhrgebiet. Forty works spanning from 1874 to 1989 from the Rhineland Industrial Museum in Oberhausen, Germany, are exhibited in Cradle of Industry. They focus not just on the industry of the period—coal, steel, rail and construction—but also on the social viewpoints of the artists on the effects of that industry.

     Milwaukee School of Engineering presents Cradle of Industry from Jan. 16-April 5 at the Grohmann Museum, 1000 N. Broadway. Barbara L. Jones, curator of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pa., presents an opening lecture, “Building a Transatlantic Bridge,” on Friday, Jan. 16 at 7 p.m. as part of Gallery Night.

     Jones will discuss the Westmoreland’s international partnership with the Rhineland Industrial Museum; the building of a transatlantic bridge with the museum’s traveling exhibition: Born of Fire: The Valley of Work; and how they ultimately organized the exhibition of German works of art to be shown at the Grohmann Museum.