Miró Wall

Miró wall is a ceramic wall, who prepared the Catalan artist Joan Miró for the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen.

Shaping

Miró Wall, the symbol of the Wilhelm- Hack-Museum, consists of 7200 tiles that belongs with a width of 55 meters and a height of ten meters to the greatest works by the Catalan artist Joan Miró.

Elements of the mural are bizarre creatures and fantasy figures.

History

This wall owes its existence to a design flaw, as the museum building had to be increased due to some installations by four meters. The ensuing huge outer surface required an artistic design. The art collector Wilhelm Hack approached the personally known to him Artist Miró and asked for a design for the wall. Miró decided to use a ceramic panel that consisted of 7200 tiles.

The mural was completed in late 1979. The design came from Miró, the technical execution was in the hands of ceramicist Joan Gardy Artigas. The two artists worked in the small mountain village Gallifa in Barcelona. There, the custom built in 1:10 scale design was transferred 36 cm stoneware tiles on 20 x. The signature of the artists can be found on the outer left edge of the facade with the year 1979.

The import of the tiles would have failed almost at the tax would they take as a sanitary trim with a high tariff. However, the regional tax office realized ultimately the tiles as a work of art with what an enormous increase in the cost of the wall design was avoided by customs duties.

Due to the high air pollution in Ludwigshafen, the wall is exposed to extreme pollution, which was removed on a regular basis in the early years. Cleaning the tiles was adjusted due to the cost, which leads to an increased distortion of the wall.