The title may have alluded to conquistador, Juan Ponce de Leon, who headed toward Bimini Island, fifty miles east of Miami, where a fountain of eternal youth was said to be found. Augustine, Andrew Jackson, Bimini Island, Ponce de Leon, Five Flags, Osceola in Conference with Hernandez, and Modern Florida. This singular mural is part of a larger 8-panel set of murals by Ulreich collectively titled “The History of Florida” the separate titles are Saturiba receiving the French, Drake Attacking St. The mural Bimini Island (also known as Aborigine) is located in the Federal Bankruptcy Courthouse, formerly the original Post Office in Tallahassee, Florida. His works produced for the Works Progress Administration have survived the longest. He relocated to New York after marrying, where he continued to paint and give art lessons. It is believed that rhythm and movement from a brief experience with dance impacted his approach to art. He served in the military during World War I. He exhibited his work in Paris as well as Chicago. Elkins scholarship to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and later won two European traveling scholarships. He spent two years observing varied artistic approaches during his studies at Kansas City Art Institute, and exhibited there. Ulreich painted at an early age, and as an adult he noted that art was “the one thing that interested me in school.” His earliest works involved subjects of Native Americans an oil painting created by Ulreich in 1906 was titled Indian Attack. The Austrian-Hungarian artist Eduard Buk Ulreich was born in 1889, and spent his childhood in Kansas City.
Used with the permission of the General Services Administration. Bimini Island (also known as Aborigines) by Eduard Buk Ulreichįederal Bankruptcy Court Building, formerly the original Post Office, Tallahassee, Florida
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