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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.

Fotografie des Wandbildes, daseinen Ringerwurf zeigt
© Anke Hirsch
Period:
Type:
Teaching project
Student project
Profile:
Design ∙ Build ∙ Preserve

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

Professor for Conservation and Restoration – Mural Painting

Project support

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