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Hugo Ballin Mural at Griffith Park Observatory


Hugo Ballin Mural at Griffith Park Observatory
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On the vaulted ceiling and upper walls of the W. M. Keck Foundation Central Rotunda are Griffith Observatory's greatest artistic treasure: the Hugo Ballin Murals. Workers have carefully and completely restored the murals so that they appear as they did when first painted by muralist, film producer, and author Hugo Ballin (1879-1956) in 1934-35.

Medieval cathedrals told stories in stone. The Ballin ceiling mural celebrates classical celestial mythology, with images of Atlas, the four winds, the planets as gods, and the twelve constellations of the zodiac. The eight rectangular Ballin wall murals depict the "Advancement of Science" with panels on astronomy, aeronautics, navigation, civil engineering, metallurgy and electricity, time, geology and biology, and mathematics and physics.

In addition to Griffith Observatory, Hugo Ballin's murals also appear throughout Los Angeles in such noted buildings as the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, the Los Angeles Times Building, and Los Angeles City Hall Council Chambers.

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Debbie Doodah
May 18 : 07:40pm
I see Odense project is in full swing.

Debbie Doodah
May 18 : 07:39pm
Not bad down here at all.

melmorial
May 18 : 07:06pm
nope no where near what it will be next weekend

Lumbe® Jill
May 18 : 06:44pm
It probably isn't as busy as it will be next weekend!

Debbie Doodah
May 18 : 06:43pm
then the village it is

melmorial
May 18 : 06:43pm
brisk not crazy..

Debbie Doodah
May 18 : 06:40pm
Thanks Mel. We will avoid the village then

melmorial
May 18 : 06:40pm
i think you'll be ok..

melmorial
May 18 : 06:39pm
it was brisk when i was down there a little bit ago

Debbie Doodah
May 18 : 06:37pm
Is the village really busy this weekend?
We need dinner and thought if it was quiet in town we would try something there.

BootsNBridles
May 18 : 06:04pm
Is her son's last name the same as his mom's? Just wondering if we also know him.

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May 18 : 05:35pm
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May 18 : 05:08pm
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Around The Lake
May 18 : 05:07pm
so true Boots, I am at a loss for words. Her son is a great guy.
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