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Fig. 19

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. 19

Josef Frank and Oskar Wlach, Villa Beer in Vienna-Hietzing, 1930, living room, east wall, sample No.1, section and REM. 1: coarse plaster (bound with protein!); 2: Fine plaster: gypsum with silicate grains up to 300 μm, some dolomite and quartzite, compacted and smoothed surface; 3: primer (‘Lösche’) with protein (casein?); 4: yellowish-gray-white glue colour, fine sand (silicates) and chalk as filler and pigmentation, additionally an early form of titanium dioxide (anatase), no patina; 5: casein or tempera paint (?), some silicates, chalk and titanium dioxide (anatase), also gypsum (‘Bolognese chalk’) and zinc white (!); the impasto is softened compared to the first coat of paint, so applied thinner, colour tone clearly yellowish bright white. The other layers are later renovations (Source: Laboratory analysis: DI Dr. Robert Linke, Federal Heritage Authority)

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