Mosaicist

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Modern mosaicist performing a mosaic

A mosaicist is an artisan who designs and performs mosaics . Numerous ancient mosaicists have signed their work.

Eight mosaicists are permanently employed at the building works there to look after the work in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome . According to the company, the world's only school for mosaic design is located in Madaba , Jordan .

Well-known mosaicists

see category: mosaic artist

• Asklepiades (ancient)
• Alexander Friedrich (1895–1968), etcher and wood cutter
• Carl Roesch (1884–1979), Swiss painter
• Olga Waldschmidt (1898–1972), German sculptor

Well-known mosaic workshops

• Mayer'sche Hofkunstanstalt
• Puhl & Wagner
• Rhenish mosaic workshop

literature

• Albert Knoepfli : wall painting, mosaic. (= Reclam's Handbook of Artistic Techniques. Volume 2). Reclam, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-15-030015-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Donderer : The mosaicists of antiquity and their economic and social position. A source study , University Library, Erlangen 1986, ISBN 3-922135-64-1 ; ders., The mosaicists of antiquity. Epigraphic sources. New finds and supplements , University Library, Erlangen 2008, ISBN 978-3-930357-88-8 .