Miró wall
The Miró wall is a ceramic wall that the Catalan artist Joan Miró made for the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen .
layout
The Miró wall , the landmark of the Wilhelm Hack Museum, consists of 7,200 ceramic tiles , which, with a width of 55 meters and a height of ten meters, is one of the largest works by the Catalan artist Joan Miró.
Elements of the mural are bizarre creatures and fantasy figures.
history
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This wall owes its creation to a construction error , as the museum building had to be increased by four meters due to some installations. The resulting huge external area called for an artistic design. The art collector Wilhelm Hack approached the artist Miró, who he knew personally, and asked him to design the wall. Miró opted for ceramic cladding consisting of 7200 tiles.
The mural was completed in late 1979. The design came from Miró, the technical implementation was in the hands of the ceramicist Joan Gardy Artigas . The two artists worked in the small mountain village of Gallifa near Barcelona. There, the 1:10 scale draft was transferred to 20 × 36 cm stoneware tiles. The signature of the two artists can be found on the outer left edge of the facade with the year 1979.
The import of the tiles almost failed because of the customs authorities who wanted to impose a high tariff on them as sanitary cladding . But the Oberfinanzdirektion finally recognized the tiles as a work of art , which avoided the enormous increase in the cost of wall design due to customs duties.
literature
- Marlis Jonas (photos), Richard W. Gassen (text): KunstRaum Stadt. Public art in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-936636-17-8 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 28 ′ 47.2 " N , 8 ° 26 ′ 38.7" E