A street by street guide to the fresco and facade paintings in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district
Samweberstraße
Samweberstraße 3, Haus Sanktjohanser.
A young (and androgynous) Saint John on the island of Patmos, painted some time after 1945 by Heinrich Bickel.
John, one of Jesus’s Apostles, was allegedly banished by the Roman authorities to the Greek island of Patmos, where, according to legend, he wrote the Book of Revelation.
Samweberstraße 5, Landhaus Schwarz.
Three separate lüftlmalerei:
The apotheosis of Saint Francis, Saint Florian, and the Resurrection of Christ, all painted by Heinrich Bickel some time after 1945.