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Fig. 13

From: White, everything white? Josef Frank’s Villa Beer (1930) in Vienna, and its materiality in the context of the discourse on ‘white cubes’

Fig. 13

Walter Gropius, Dessau, Bauhaus, Prellerhaus, 1926, east facade, detail, samples for the removal of later coatings; on the smoothed reddish-yellowish plaster (early shrinkage cracks!) lies a thin lime wash of the same colour, probably dyed with silicate sand fines. The surface is patinated and also sulfated (Source: Analysis Nils Mainusch, HAWK / Hildesheim, 2000)

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