Adolf Wilhelm Keim

Adolf Wilhelm Keim (born March 25, 1851 in Munich ; † September 5, 1913 there ) was a German craftsman , researcher and inventor of silicate paint .

Adolf Wilhelm Keim

Life

He was born in Munich and grew up there. First he completed an apprenticeship as a potter. In the following years, however, he dealt with the chemistry of mineral pigments and binders . Starting from liquid potassium silicate , he developed a binding agent for plasters and paintings that bonded with their mineral subsurface in a particularly stable manner. In addition, they were washable, weather and acid resistant and lightfast. Silicate paints were generally known since the Middle Ages, but Keim perfected them and only then made them marketable. So you can call him the inventor of modern mineral paint. They are also called "Keim mineral colors" or "Keimfarben" after him.

In 1878 Keim received an imperial patent on its mineral paints. It was followed by the establishment of the company Keimfarben . The first production facility was located near the limestone quarry in Offenstetten (now part of Abensberg ) in Lower Bavaria . Today's company headquarters are in Diedorf near Augsburg.

The technique of mineral colors is still used today and is considered to be a decisive breakthrough in the development of dye chemistry. Artists and restorers in particular are still heavily dependent on Keim's colors.

Works

• The mineral painting: new process for the production of weatherproof wall paintings; technical-scientific guidance . Vienna; Pest; Leipzig, Hartleben, 1881.
• Reprint of the 1881 edition. and with an introduction and bibliography. verse. by Thomas Hoppe. Stuttgart, Enke, 1995. ISBN 3-432-27111-5
• About painting technique: a contribution to the promotion of rational painting methods / edit on the basis of authentic files. by Adolf Wilh [elm] Keim . Leipzig, Forester, 1903
• The dampness of the residential buildings, the wall corrosion and wood sponge: considered in terms of cause, nature and effect . Vienna; Pest; Leipzig, Hartleben, 1901
• Exhibition for painting technique in Munich in the Royal Glass Palace 1893 from July 20th to October 15th ; Official catalog organized by the German Society for the Promotion of Rational Painting Methods. 2nd ed. Ed .: Adolf Wilhelm Keim. Munich, Mühlthaler, 1893
• Memorandum about the necessity of finding ways and means of improving our painting technique ad Geb. d. Art and trade. Munich, Ackermann, 1890
• About the basics for a rational technique of oil painting . In: Technical communications for painting , born in 1889
• The latest improvements in mineral painting from 1880–1884: (New method for making weatherproof wall paintings), detailed instructions for making weatherproof and transportable wall paintings. Munich, Schreiber, 1884
• The mineral painting: new process for the production of weatherproof wall paintings; technical-scientific guidance . Vienna; Pest; Leipzig, Hartleben, 1881

literature

• Jürgen Osswald: The structure and reactions of the silica gel in the silicate paints of Keim's mineral painting . Dissertation at the University of Munich , 1997, DNB 951029789 .
• Karl Würth: On the history of mineral painting . Deutsche Maltechnische Vereinigung, Leverkusen-Schlebusch 1937, DNB 363119981 (= special font of the German Maltechnische Vereinigung , No. 46).
• Willibald Leo von Lütgendorff-Leinburg : The mineral painting and its practical application: new process for the production of weather-resistant wall paintings, unchangeable easel pictures and tapestry imitations. With instructions for the painting technique . Munich, Wüst, 1887.

See also

• Stereochromy

Web links

• Brief history of KEIM mineral paints on the website of Keimfarben AG Switzerland.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Karin Artho: Technical seminar in the Heimatschutzzentrum - silicate paints in theory and practice . In: Heimatschutz - Patrimoine . No. 3/114 . Swiss Homeland Security, March 2019, ISSN  0017-9817 , p. 34 f .