Czech mosaic pioneer Viktor Foerster and the mortars of his mosaics

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Czech mosaic pioneer Viktor Foerster and the mortars of his mosaics
Original language description
Mosaicist Viktor Foerster opened the first local mosaic studio in the Czech Lands at the beginning of the 20th century and by 1915 he made more than 30 outdoor mosaics. The original mortar beds of four his funeral or sacral works were characterized by SEM-EDS, x-ray powder diffraction and thermal analysis. Based on the results of this study Foerster seems to have used cement to fix his works from the very beginning of his mosaic career. All investigated mortars contained sand and hydraulic binders with abundant clinker residues. Apart from the cementitious binder (probably early Portland cement), crushed brick shards and other admixtures were identified in two samples. In one of these samples, cement and bricks were combined with gypsum, in the other sample the binder is a mixture of cement, lime and crushed bricks.
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Proceedings of the 6th Historic Mortars Conference - HMC 2022
ISBN
978-961-6884-77-8
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Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
40-49
Publisher name
University of Ljubljana
Place of publication
Ljubljana
Event location
Lublaň
Event date
Sep 21, 2022
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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