Academic thesis
| 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. |
| Keywords: | detached wall paintings |
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Christiane Maier Hein-Hoyer-Strasse 64 20359 Hamburg Deutschland christiane.maier@[Diesen Teil loeschen]restauratorin.com |
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