Workshop of the Study Specialisation Mural Painting
In the Workshop of the study specialisation of mural painting in the Conservation and Restoration degree programme at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, students can carry out detailed investigations on various objects. On the basis of their results, the students develop concepts for the subsequent implementation of their project and final theses.
Utilisation
In the workshop rooms, students have the opportunity to work on mural paintings or stored depot objects and carry out more differentiated research methods on them, create test series in order to try out materials in conservation and restoration and to recreate the respective techniques.
Rooms
- Workshop: room W.2.47 (Laboratory and Workshop Building) (77.1 square metres) for project work, documentation
- Workshop: room W.2.48 (35.5 square metres) for examination, microscopy, documentation
- Storage room: room W.2.08 (23.4 square metres)
- Workshop manager's office: room W.2.49 (13.6 sqm)
Opening hours
- by arrangement
Insights into the workshop rooms of the mural painting specialisation
What happens in the conservation and restoration workshop, specialising in mural painting:
Work as part of normal studies, creation of test specimens and examination of these within project work and final theses, project work discussions, examination of test materials and cross-sections under the microscope, seminars, occasional compact courses (mosaic course, plaster backfilling, etc.)
Zuarbeiten des Mosaikglases mit der Mosaikzange © Tjalda Eschebach Mosaic course: Overview
This compact course takes place at the beginning of the summer semester and is offered once a year. The mosaic course gives you the opportunity to produce a mosaic piece measuring 25 × 25 cm using the indirect setting method.
You will learn the following: material (glass), tools, procedure for crushing the glass material, fixing it to the mosaic paper and turning and embedding it in cement on a wooden board with subsequent loosening and removal of the mosaic paper and cleaning including filling the joints of the mosaic surface.
Mosaic course: General procedure
There are only approx. 2.5 – 3 days of practical skills available, so the choice of motif should not be too complicated: the more curves and the smaller the motif, the more (time) consuming.
The course takes place in the design rooms of the Laboratory and Workshop Building in rooms W.1.65 and W.1.66.
© Tjalda Eschebach Mosaic course: First day
On Monday morning there will be a theoretical introduction to the topic (in the mural painting workshop, Room W.2.47, Laboratory and Workshop Building), in which we will deal with
- glass selection (joint tour of the mosaic cellar),
- workplace organisation: transporting glass material and equipment from the cellar to the workshop or design room,
- setting up the workstations,
- the selection of motifs and mirror-inverted redrawing on mosaic paper and
- initial cutting and crushing of the glass material (from the basement room W.-1.03).
Aufkleben der Mosaiksteinchen mit Mehlkleber auf Mosaikpapier Mosaic course: Second and third day
On Tuesday and Wednesday, the mosaic is set in a concentrated manner, also on Thursday morning, in order to then carry out the turning and transfer to the prefabricated slabs in the afternoon.
Beispiele studentischer Mosaikarbeiten als Ergebnis durchgeführter Mosaikkurse © Tjadla Eschebach Mosaic course: Fourth day
On Friday there is some final work to be done as well as general tidying up and re-sorting of materials and equipment.
Projects
Mural | The Terraced End House in Treibjagdweg 14 in the Onkel Tom housing estate
Inventory and examination for historical colourfulness
Mural Painting | Ravensbrück Memorial Site, Former "Neue Wäscherei"
In addition to a general inventory of all the rooms in the elongated building of the "former ehem. Neuen Wäscherei", a colour survey was carried out within the large dining room as part of the study project.
Mural Painting | denkmal aktiv – Cultural Heritage Goes to School
A cooperation project between the Montessori secondary school in Potsdam and the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
Mural Painting | The Mural Removals of the Wrestlers from the Olympic Village/Berlin, Elstal
After the handover of two strapped wall paintings of wrestlers from the "Haus der Nationen" in the Olympic Village, these murals depicting wrestling athletes in typical wrestling poses were to be transferred to a new support and restored.
Wall Painting | The Stucco Frieze in the Ivory Room in the Orangery Palace of Sanssouci Park
Inventory and condition survey of a sample axis of the frieze applications, investigation of the technique, damage and causes as well as reconstruction attempts of stucco mass and form in historical technique.
Mural | Ceiling paintings from Villa Illaire (SPSG) covered with wallpaper
On behalf of the SPSG, students from the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam secured and restored the wallpaper from Villa Illaire in Sanssouci Park, which had fallen from the ceiling as a result of water damage. They also developed a plan for transferring it onto a new backing and for revealing the remaining traces of the paintings.
