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Christiane Maier: Developing a conservation concept for detached wall paintings from the Neues Museum Berlin back

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Abstract: The diploma essay deals with a selection of detached wall paintings from the Neues Museum Berlin.
In the 1980s, the objects were removed from then dilapidated rooms of the museum, mainly using the stacco-method. After embedding the wall paintings in mortars with acrylic- or polyvinylacteatdispersions as binders, they were fixed on artificial supports.
Today, less than twenty years after the process, the embedding materials show various forms of fairly heavy damage.
A general inventory of the original substance and the damages incurred was made, therefore the dissertation provides the development of a computer-aided inventory to register the damage graphically. It also includes an examination of the mortars, using differential thermal analyses, thin cross- sections, thermal extension and TV holography based vibration measurements.
In light of the results of the examination, a method of applying a facing and removing the existing embedding mortars was developed to present a fairly universal system for conservation and restoration of the objects.
The possibility of remounting the wall paintings re situ, as well as fastening them to new artificial supports was examined.

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Keywords: detached wall paintings
Details:
  • academic institution: Fachhochschule Potsdam
  • kind of theses:  Diplomarbeit
  • main Tutor:  Prof. Werner Koch
  • assistant Tutor:  Diplomrestaurator Björn Scheewe
  • date:  1999
  • Language:  German
  • pages:  413
  • pictures:  74
 
Contact:
 
Christiane Maier
Hein-Hoyer-Strasse 64
20359  Hamburg
Deutschland
christiane.maier@[Diesen Teil loeschen]restauratorin.com

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