Sgraffito Paintings in Documentation & Conservation

Mika Tal Shay Farkash

Lecture at the: 6th INTERATIONAL ARCHITECTURAL PAINT RESEARCH CONFERENCE March 15 -17, 2017 New York, New York HOSTED BY COLOMBIA UNIVERSITY The lecture Topics:

• Our first Sgraffito project

• Sgraffito history and technique

• Documentation and Case studies By Perli Pelzig

2 Sgraffito Mural in Eilon -2012

3 Damages Dirt Lichens Crumbling Fungus Cracks lacunas

4 ‘The Blacksmiths’ at Eshet Ayalon factory- Kibbuts Ayalon The Painter Meir Steingold 1952 Before

After

5 Halperin House - Kiryat Haim 1954-1980

6 Halperin House - Kiryat Haim 1954-1980

7 Halperin House - Kiryat Haim 1954-1980

8 Halperin House - Kiryat Haim 1954-1980

9 Halperin House - Kiryat Haim 1954-1980

10 Architectural Sgraffito Decoration Haifa 1925

11 Prague Architectural Sgraffito Barcelona

12 Figurative Sgraffito

Austria Germany

13 Sgraffito technique

Mixing Pigments / Oxides Lime, quartz sand & pozzolan

14 Base layer Pigmented layer

15 Dots template (Sinopia)

16 Sgraffito Tools

Old tools Modern tools

17 Carving into the lower layers

18 Relief in - Relief Out

19 Haifa Mordechai Gompel 1960

Kiryat Tiv'on

Haifa

20 Lebanon

Israel Map Syria the red dots presents the sits were we found Sgraffito murals. In every site there is one or more sgraffito.

Jordan

Egypt

21 Haifa, Pe’er Theatre 1953 by Perli Pelzig

22 Haifa, Pe’er Theatre 1953 by Perli Pelzig.

The Mural is 60 feet long and 10 feet high

23 Decoration of Tenement house, Tel Aviv- Yafo, 1970 by Dan & Ora Livni

24 Sgraffito sketch Three pilgrimage festivals in Kibbutz Ashdot Ya'akov Ihud by Arik Koren 1957 25 Karp House , Community Hall in Kibbutz Ashdot Ya'akov Ihud, 1959 by Arik Koren

26 Erosion and Cracks

27 Parachutists Memorial House, Kibbutz Ma’agan Fungus and by Arik Koren 1959 Cracks

28 Tiberias Hot Springs, Haifa, Biblical Stories by Avraham Yascil by Amos Yascil 1959 Neve Sha'anan, Haifa

29 Joseph and His Brethren By Aaron Giladi Elementary school Holon ~1960 Crumbling Cracks

The Sgraffito was painted on 24 Asbestos panels

30 Kibbutz by Michal Efrat, 1960

Kibbutz Sarid 1960

Culture Club

Kibbutz Sarid 2017 Dining room 31 Sea World- Kibbutz Sdot Yam by Michal Efrat 1960

32 Kibbutz Sha’ar Ha’amakim chicken coop The painter studio by Avraham Omri, the Paintings were made between 1960-1990

Kinder garden - Noah's Ark

33 Kibbutz Sha’ar Ha’amakim by Plaster separating from the wall, Avraham Omri Warehouse Crumbling and Cracks

34 Kibbutz Sha’ar Ha’amakim by Avraham Omri The swimming pool entrance

Family house

35 Kibbutz Nir Itzaac Dining Room by Avraham Omri ~1965 Destroyed

Post card

36 Roda Reilenger Kibbtz Mishmar Ha’Emek & Kibbutz HaZorea 1960-1970

Sport hall 37 Kibbutz Zikkim, 1967 by Beni Shemesh

38 Peace Will Come, Kibbutz Yiftach by Nelly Ben Zvi 1970 Lichens and fungus

Sgraffito on a bomb shelter wall

3/26/2017 39 Kibbutz HaZorea, Kinder Garden ‘Hatzav’ by Daniel Levi 1980

40 Combining ceramic tiles with Sgraffito in Kibbutz Bror Hayil by Arie Kotler & Benjamin Buchbinder

41 Kibbutz Or HaNer, 2007 -2008 by Daniela Almeida & Jos’e Kura - from Argentina

42 Figurative Sgraffito Buffalo NY U.S.A. by Prof. Josef Slawinski

43 END but far from over

THANK YOU

Commodore Perry at Black Rock, 1969, Sgraffito by Prof. Slawinski West Hertel Middle School, Buffalo, NY

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