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.
Period:
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Type:
Teaching project
Student project
Profile:
Design ∙ Build ∙ Preserve
Organisational Unit:
Assignment in the period of processing: Winter semester 2018/19
- Preparing and carrying out a strappo removal of Russian lettering in order to understand the strappo removal technique
- Concept development for the reburial of strappo acceptance tests
- Documentation of the procedure
- Final documentation including the environment of the paintings made available for removal.
Task during the period of work: summer semester 2019
- Reburial of two Strappo removals
- Documentation of the procedure
- Final documentation
Task during the period of work: winter semester 2019/20 and summer semester 2020
- Renewed damage mapping
- Development of a concept for closing defects
- Implementation of the measure on both image fields
- Final documentation
Contact
Project support
Prof. Dr. Jan Raue
Professor for Conservation and Restoration – Mural Painting
Project support
Dipl.-Rest. Tjalda Eschebach
Workshop Manager Conservation and Restoration – Mural Painting
Workers in the winter semester 2018/19
Students in the 5th semester:
- Merete Gierow
- Janin Opel
- Belinda Aguilar
- Clara Dewinter
- Kristine Scubenica
Workers in the winter semester 2018/19
Students in the 6th semester:
- Merete Gierow
- Janin Opel
- Belinda Aguilar
Workers in the winter semester 2019/20 and summer semester 2020
Students in the 5th and 6th semesters:
- Felix Essmann
- Max Edeling
- Saskia Kurrek