{"id":551245,"date":"2015-07-06T14:02:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T14:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berliner-schloss.de\/en\/?p=551245"},"modified":"2015-07-06T14:48:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T14:48:19","slug":"facades-being-created-in-old-sculpting-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berliner-schloss.de\/en\/facades-being-created-in-old-sculpting-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Fa\u00e7ades being created in old sculpting tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As they were three hundred years ago, the palace fa\u00e7ades are being created to old rules: first, every detail is modelled in clay. In the past, a mould release agent, generally shellac, was next brushed onto the model, from which a mould was then directly cast using plaster. Today, it is done differently: the clay model is coated in high-quality, liquid silicon.<\/p>\n

Once it has dried, this is like a perfectly fitting rubber skin and is very flexible. Before it is taken off, a plaster corset is therefore built against the silicon skin. This keeps the mould stable after removal. It is only then that the conversion into sandstone occurs. The path taken has changed over time as a result of technical progress and better materials, but the historic trio of clay model, plaster model and sandstone execution has remained.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”551246″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”551247″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Models of eagles from the Schl\u00fcter fa\u00e7ades’ mezzanine. 40 different eagles were modelled in clay and then coated in silicon for casting the moulds.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This large shot of Portal V in the Schl\u00fcter Courtyard shows the whole beauty of Schl\u00fcter’s architecture. He was sculptor and architect in one and therefore not unreasonably called the ‘German Michelangelo’.
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[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Further links
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\nDevelopment of the fa\u00e7ades in model form<\/p>\n

Part I: Daring to rebuild Berlin Palace<\/a>
\nPart II: Old photos show the palace’s original beauty<\/a>
\nPart III: Fa\u00e7ades being created in old sculpting tradition<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As they were three hundred years ago, the palace fa\u00e7ades are being created to old rules: first, every detail is modelled in clay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":551246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berliner-schloss.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berliner-schloss.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berliner-schloss.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berliner-schloss.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berliner-schloss.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551245"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/berliner-schloss.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551273,"href":"https:\/\/berliner-schloss.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551245\/revisions\/551273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berliner-schloss.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berliner-schloss.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berliner-schloss.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berliner-schloss.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}