Elmar Albrecht

From the family tradition as a court gilder, Albrecht had skills that he used in the development of his picture panels from the material of the gilding compound.

For the Deutsches Theater München he designed the stage set for Schiller's Intrigue and Love (1962) He specialised in the restoration of old paintings in theatres.

At the Wilhelma-Theater Stuttgart, the only theatre in Germany with Pompeian decoration, he restored the balustrades and proscenium slogen in 1987.

He realised the redesign from found coloured, albeit incomplete, design drawings by Ludwig von Zanth and from comparisons with related pictorial programmes.

[8] In the reading room of the Munich Maximilianeum, Albrecht, together with Klaus Staps, reconstructed murals lost through damage in 1986: the paintings of William III of Orange, Gustav I of Sweden, Cardinal Richelieu and Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully.