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Places to see Reinhold Marxhausen’s art in and around Seward

January 16, 2023 by Lloyd 8 Comments

This post is currently a work in progress, and I would welcome additions or corrections in the comments below. I’ll try to get a map together after we get the list nailed down. Oh, and I’m very open to anyone who wants to rewrite any of these descriptions.

  • Cattle Bank on the East side of the courthouse square in Seward
    • Grain Elevators of Seward County. A collection of 20 watercolors that the bank commissioned Marxhausen to do in the 1970’s. The paintings are displayed in one of the upstairs conference rooms at Cattle Bank. Just let the person at the information desk of the bank that you would be interested in seeing the Marxhausen watercolors.
  • Jones Bank on the Southwest corner of the courthouse square in Seward
    • A very large and fascinating burnt wood and ceramic tile mural dominates the West entrance to the bank. (image) (video)
  • Concordia University
    • Holy Spirit / Open Book is a large art installation to the West of Link Library that you can see as you drive past Weller Hall. 1959
    • There is an amazing and very large Marxhausen mural immediately to the right when you enter the Janzow Campus Center through the upper entrance.
    • The intricately carved brick benches in the basement of Weller Hall are Marxhausen’s as well.
    • Concordia occasionally shows items from their extensive Marxhausen permanent collection in the Marxhausen Gallery in Jessie Hall.
  • The Center for Liturgical Arts is located due South of Concordia University on Columbia Ave, and stands on the location of the former Marxhausen residence.
    • The front door of the center is the original burnt wood mosaic front door of the Reinhold and Doris’ house. Well worth stopping to see.
    • The Marxhausen Studio is on the South side of the property and has been restored to once again be a working art studio (video of the studio when Marx used it).
    • The Center also has several of Marxhausen’s works on display. They would be happy to show them to you.
  • Masonic Lodge building on the South side of the courthouse square across the street from Jones Bank
    • The entire South side of the building is a huge painted mural by Marxhausen. It was painted with the help of his students around 1980 and was restored around 1998, but could probably use some TLC again. The text is this poem by his friend, William Kloefkorn, who was appointed State Poet of Nebraska 1982:

      Nebraska, water and soil and wind, color and light and heat: Something forever plump and firm, above the ground, the itch forever. Of something small but ripening, underneath

  • St. John Lutheran Church located at 900 Columbia Avenue, across the street from Concordia University
    • The stained glass windows that run the length of East and West walls of the church, as well as in the balcony and a central skylight.
    • The communion cross which is generally on the altar during communion services.
    • The liturgically themed processional crosses that are used at various times though out the church year.
    • St. John also has a fairly extensive collection of Marxhausen pieces most of which can be viewed online.
  • The Law offices next to Red Path Gallery on the North side of the courthouse square
    • There are about 20 Marxhausen pieces on display in the front windows. The pieces are rotated a few times a year. While you’re there, why don’t you stop by Red Path Gallery next door? Have a drink, look at the art, and ask them why they don’t have a little Marxhausen display.
  • The LCMS Nebraska District Office on the corner of Highway 34 and Columbia Ave.
    • Two stained glass windows in the tower. The windows are more impressive when seen from the inside.
    • In the same room as the stained glass windows is a large burnt wood mosaic. This mosaic was part of an altar that was removed when the building was remodeled.
    • In the lower level conference room is a small metal cross.

Have I missed anything? Do you have any corrections or additions? Just rewrites to make this sound better? Links to photos? Please add them in the comments.

Filed Under: Nerd Tagged With: art, marxhausen, Reinhold Marxhausen, seward

More head shots

November 21, 2016 by Lloyd 6 Comments

My 8th graders really liked the Mona Lisa in the classroom. Well, actually they didn’t like it at first. They thought it was creepy. But eventually they came around and said that I should do the same thing in other classrooms. They got into it while I was cutting out heads during math class and started finding other heads for me to do.

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I think I got 4 classrooms done in the first round, but then it occurred to me that the hardest part for me (the cutting) would be the easiest part for Lauren. After all, she actually teaches cutting. I think we did 7 or 8 more classrooms a couple of days later, and now we’re ready to do 8 more.  I think that leaves just a couple.

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I was trying to be all sneaky about it (but without having to come in really early or stay really late). I’ve been found out by 2 teachers. They’ve been sworn to secrecy.

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I really wasn’t expecting Wally to be all into it.

Filed Under: Lauren, Lloyd, They can't all be winners. Tagged With: art, cutting, heads, paintings

A little bit of Mona

November 10, 2016 by Lloyd 4 Comments

Our previous previous art teacher at Lincoln Lutheran, Donna Willet, always had a little cut out of the Mona Lisa peeking over one of the bulletin boards in the art room. Donna’s retired from teaching about four years ago and the cut out came down. I got tired of not seeing it and finally got around to doing something about it.

There are lots of famous paintings and lots of classrooms at school. I’m thinking about art bombing the place. Anyone have suggestions?

Filed Under: Lloyd, School Tagged With: art, mona lisa, School

Now in 3D

September 12, 2012 by Lloyd 5 Comments

I saw this at the church where the Lutheran Choir of Lincoln practices (note that this is not its name; it is actually called the Lincoln Lutheran Choir, but people get that confused with the Lincoln Lutheran High School Choir, which is not the name of the high school choir; it is actually the Lincoln Lutheran Chorale).

It's construction should be exceedingly simple.

Anyway, I wanted to show it to Lauren, but she is in a meeting tonight, so I’ll just put it here so that she can see it in the morning. It looks like it would be (a) something that she could do in 30 minutes if she wanted to and (b) something that would take me 4 hours and then it would look like total vine puke.

She won't need to see this detail, but if I want to do it, I will.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: art, bulletin board, choir, decoration, vine

Denver Airport: floor

April 27, 2012 by Lloyd 4 Comments

I don’t remember when this was, but It one point, I had to spend a lot of time in the Denver airport. A little later, Lauren and I were there together. I drug her miles through the airport to find this section of the floor.

I wish I would have taken pictures from floor level. Then you could have all of the frustration that I had when I first walked across it and wondered what in the world was going on.

I even wish that you could have had the few minutes of frustration that Lauren had before I took her up to the second floor to look down on the tiles:

Maybe I could have used photoshop to make them look all ground-levely

You’ll have to take my word for it and feel frustrated on your own.

Imagine you're one of those ladies.

Filed Under: Lauren, Lloyd Tagged With: art, denver, mosaic, tile, travel

Field Trip

December 30, 2010 by Lloyd 10 Comments

Donna Willet, our art teacher at Lincoln Lutheran was taking an art class on a field trip and she needed someone else to drive. Since they don’t really let me teach many classes anymore, I drove for her.

She class was doing photography, and I’ve seen some of the pictures that they’ve taken in years past, so I know she does a good job of teaching them. They had also been talking about sculpture, so she combined the two into one field trip.

We went to UNL, which has a really lovely campus, and walked around from one sculpture to another. Donna would talk about the sculptures and they would take pictures. Donna would take them to them to the next sculpture and they would take pictures along the way. Donna would wander around looking a little lost (art teacher, remember) and they would take pictures.

We saw big sculptures:

This one was by Tony Stark.

With little, ancillary sculptures:

The kids really liked this.

This was the final sculpture we saw:

It says something, but I don't know what.

I liked it, but I thought the wall behind it was cool too:

Now that's a wall.

Filed Under: Lloyd, School Tagged With: art, sculpture

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