Frescography

Frescography (from Latin fresco – painting onto "fresh" plaster + Greek graphein – to write) is a method for producing murals digitally on paper, canvas, glass or tiles, invented in 1998 by German muralist Rainer Maria Latzke.

These wallpaper manufacturers used thousands of engraved woodblocks for the creation of the panorama sceneries, to create wall paper such as the 20-panel Sauvages de la Mer du Pacifique which Jean-Gabriel Charvet designed for Joseph Dufour et Cie or the “du Vue de l'Amérique Nord” designed in 1834 by Zuber et cie for the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, where it is still today.

In cooperation with the German Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, the IOF provides online access to the collection a 40,000 images archive of European wall and mural paintings which have been compiled in the last years of World War II on direct order of Adolf Hitler to preserve the images for a later reconstruction in case of war damages.

It also offers free online access to the institute's “World of Ornaments”: an archive of European wall and mural paintings that covers the period between the Gothic ages to the end of the 19th century.

This archive consists of 5,000 motifs based on the two greatest encyclopedic collections of ornaments from the 19th-century chromo-lithographic tradition: Auguste Racinet's L“'Ornement polychrome Volumes I and II“ from 1875 to 1888 and “M.

With CAM-program created Frescography
'Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique' - Unlike this woodblock print consisting of 10 stripes, the frescography is produced on a single piece of canvas, allowing a seamless mural tailor-fit to the wall's dimensions.
Screenshot of a CAM program for the design of frescographies.
J.W. Bergl Schloss Schoenbrunn Vienna , Austria , 1770, Archive of European wall and ceiling paintings
Frescographies in the lobby of the Royal Clipper .