Luftlmalerei

Lüftlmalerei as it is correctly spelt in German, in English translation, a painting of the open air or literally airy painting. Is a traditional of decorating houses in parts of southern Germany and Austria, particularly in Bavaria. Mural are created on the outsides of houses using a method similar tp fresco painting, on wet lime render using pigments and water, thus incorporating the mural into the finish as opposed to a painted surface.

These decorations often have religious reference as well as portrayals of everyday rural life and some times make use visual illusion techniques similar to those of trompe l’oeil murals. They are usually created by local craftspersons which connect back to a long history. The website https://lueftlmalerei.com/ which has started to record the extensive collections of examples of Lüftlmalerei points to a resurgence of the art form after the war

'While the motifs and themes remain nearly identical to their centuries-older progenitors, it was the post World War II building boom in West Germany and Austria that led to a localised renaissance in this form of mural painting — a product both of a renewed identification with the local history and traditions — “heimatkitsch ” — but also with the surge of tourism. Again, a wave of nostalgia for “the good old days” was partly a product of the devastation of the preceding war.'

'In Southern Germany, people began to resurrect the idea of the idyll of Alpine life before the sobriety of the War, and began to paint the new but empty white plastered walls of their houses with motifs from a time before the Nazi regime’s rise. Numerous single-family houses from the 1960s and 1970s still feature hunting scenes, figures of saints, sunsets over green treetops or family coats of arms. Like the wall paintings of the past, they referred to the residents of the house and provided information as to the family’s origin (coats of arms or inscriptions), inclinations and habits (hunting and nature scenes), and religious attitudes (in their choice of saints).'

[edit] Related articles on Designing Buildings

• Bas-relief.
• Conservation.
• Finishes.
• Fresco.
• Graffiti.
• Kinetic facade.
• Megaron.
• Mosaic.
• Mural.
• Nuclear Dawn mural, Brixton.
• Paint.
• Plaster.
• Rustication.
• Stained glass.
• Tessera.
• The Anatomy of Colour.
• Trompe l’oeil.
• Trompe l’oeil murals.

[edit] External Links

• https://lueftlmalerei.com/