Tinfoil painting
Tin foil painting is an old technique for decorating house facades made of slate with the help of tin foil ( tinfoil ), which was widespread in parts of Franconia and Thuringia .
technology
It is not a real painting technique; rather, figures, ornaments, coats of arms, names, dates or sayings were punched out of tin foil with the help of templates and glued onto the slate with linseed oil varnish . After drying, the tin foil adhered firmly to the slate. The originally high-gloss film acquired a matt silver-gray patina over time . Often the entire house gable was framed with filigree tendrils. The slaters and their families made this sometimes very representative and expensive jewelry themselves.
distribution
The folk tinfoil "painting" has been documented since the 17th century (first in Zeyern in the Kronach district in 1673) and was in the Thuringian-Franconian slate mountains (in the middle Haßlach valley - e.g. in Neukenroth - as well as in Ludwigsstadt , Hollfeld , Coburg , Saalfeld , Sonneberg and Hildburghausen ). Facades on which the original technology was restored are very rare today (e.g. the market mill in Wonsees in Franconia). Most of the time, the faded decorations were later repainted with white oil paint. Many of the works that no longer exist today were photographed by the Bauhaus architect Alfred Arndt around 1930.
literature
- Bettina Vaupel: What exactly is tin foil painting? In: monumente , No. 4 (2020), p. 19.