ART NOUVEAU - Training on restoration organized within Art Nouveau project
08-12-2019
MAK, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts and Contemporary Art and BDA, Federal Monuments Authority organized a four-day day training on restoration in Information and Training Centre for Architectural Conservation Kartause Mauerbach, Austria.
The four-day training focused on teaching traditional manufacturing techniques used on Art Nouveau façades around 1900 to create various appearances of the surface by using different plaster structures (combed plaster, squeezed plaster), decoration elements and cast elements. The event started with an introductory lecture on Architectural Surfaces and Plaster Façades around 1900, explaining the historical development of AN façades, techniques, different styles and presented good and bad practice examples. The training was designed for practitioners, restorers and monument conservators, artisans experienced in working with a historical building structure, also architects who are dealing with monument conservation. In general, the focus of the training was on a practical approach, with a lot of practical exercises and fieldwork, where all expert-participants could learn how to mix different mortars and plasters, shape plaster elements and reproduce different plaster structures. Thus, the hands-on practice included working with materials and surface structures of plaster – lime technology, Romanzement, combed plaster, squeezed plaster, rough plaster, „Edelputze“ and explaining elements of conservation and restoration of architectural surfaces, repair and reconstruction, cast elements, facing brickwork.
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