{"id":4848,"date":"2020-01-19T17:34:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T17:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/?page_id=4848"},"modified":"2021-04-27T06:29:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T06:29:53","slug":"origin-of-the-word","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Origin of the Word “L\u00fcftlmalerei”"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"4848\" class=\"elementor elementor-4848\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-36670c4 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"36670c4\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{"background_background":"classic"}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f812016\" data-id=\"f812016\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b77c2cf\" data-id=\"b77c2cf\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ad32177 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ad32177\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">THE ORIGIN of the WORD \"L\u00fcftlmalerei\"<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-41dd434\" data-id=\"41dd434\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-fcf7a1e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"fcf7a1e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e84a764\" data-id=\"e84a764\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-04f4602 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"04f4602\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-54bfc29 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"54bfc29\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{"background_background":"classic"}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-07d365b\" data-id=\"07d365b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-34a264c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"34a264c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"154\" src=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/quote-1.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-340\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a913cb3\" data-id=\"a913cb3\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-settings=\"{"background_background":"classic"}\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4202a3b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4202a3b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>“What\u2019s in a name? That which we call a rose<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">By any other name would smell as sweet;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 21px;\">“<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8aa45cc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8aa45cc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>– William Shakespeare, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-16 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8c50108\" data-id=\"8c50108\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-db5283b elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"db5283b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"154\" src=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/quote-1.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-340\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e088081 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e088081\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-47cc014\" data-id=\"47cc014\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f6cfd2a elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"f6cfd2a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9b033b1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9b033b1\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-129cc5b\" data-id=\"129cc5b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8e5cd20 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8e5cd20\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\">In German, this style of decoration might be called <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;\"><i>H\u00e4userw\u00e4nde<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\"> (“house walls”),\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: inherit;\">Fassadenkunst<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\">\u00a0(“facade art”), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;\">F<\/span>assadenbemalungen<\/i> (“facade paintings”),\u00a0<i style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: inherit;\">Wandgem\u00e4lde<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\">\u00a0(“wall murals”), <\/span><i style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: inherit;\">Au\u00dfenmalerei<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\">\u00a0(“exterior paintings”),\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: inherit;\">Frischmalerei<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\">\u00a0(“fresh paintings”), <\/span><i style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: inherit;\">Freskenmalerei<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\">\u00a0(“fresco paintings”),\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\">or simply\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;\">Wandm<\/span>alerei<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal;\">\u00a0(“wall paintings”).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">But in the Werdenfels region of Bavaria — named for the county that used to be centered around the <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Werdenfels_Castle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Werdenfels castle<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">, the ruins of which still<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;\"> overlook the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Market_town\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>market town<\/b><\/a> of Garmisch-Partenkirchen — and the Tyrolean region of what is now Austria and Italy, these outdoor wall paintings are called “<\/span><i style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">L\u00fcftlmalerei”<\/i><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4ff9d55 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4ff9d55\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e4a93cb\" data-id=\"e4a93cb\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-af5f2a6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"af5f2a6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">In standard, or<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;\"><a style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/High_German_languages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">High German<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">, “<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><i>Luft<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">” means “air,” “<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;\"><i>Maler<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">” means “painter,” and “<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><i>Malerei<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">” means “painting.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">Just as in English where one adds a “-y” to the end of a word to make whatever it is into a tiny version of itself — “duck” into “ducky,” or “pig” into “piggy,” for instance —\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Bavarians add an “-l” or an “-erl” at the end of a word to make it a\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diminutive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diminutive<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">In<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bavarian_language\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bavarian<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">, “<\/span><i style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">L\u00fcftl<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">” is a diminutive form of the word “Luft”,<span id='easy-footnote-1-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-4848' title='Schmeller, Johann Andreas. <\/span><i style="font-weight: inherit;">Bayerisches W\u00f6rterbuch Buchstaben G, H, J (Cons.), K, Q, L, M, N; Sammlung von W\u00f6rtern und Ausdr\u00fccken, die in den lebenden Mundarten sowohl, als in der \u00e4ltern und \u00e4ltesten Provincial-Litteratur des K\u00f6nigreichs Bayern, besonders seiner \u00e4ltern Lande, vorkommen, und in der heutigen allgemein-deutschen Schriftsprache entweder gar nicht, oder nicht in denselben Bedeutungen \u00fcblich sind, mit urkundlichen Belegen, nach den Stammsylben etymologisch-alphabetisch geordnet<\/i><span style="font-size: 16px;">. Stuttgart: T\u00fcbingen: Cotta., 1828, p. 446: "Der Luft, L\u00b4\u00faftling; Dim. das L\u00fcf\u2022tl\u2022"'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">literally translating into something like, “a little air,” or “airy.”<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, the simplest etymology, is that it’s a 19th century Bavarian compound word for exactly what it describes: an “open air,” or “airy,” outdoor “painting.”<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">This also makes sense, given the method of painting: dye and pigment are added to wet plaster.\u00a0 The artist can only paint as much of the mural as remains wet, because, once it dries, it hardens into a fresco that might stand for centuries.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d313892\" data-id=\"d313892\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-11d578f elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"11d578f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"627\" src=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-03-17.17.35-1024x627.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-5940\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-03-17.17.35-1024x627.png 1024w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-03-17.17.35-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-03-17.17.35-768x470.png 768w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-03-17.17.35.png 1195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Section of Johann Andreas Schmeller's 1828 Bavarian Dictionary<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-85a68cb elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"85a68cb\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-bb20707\" data-id=\"bb20707\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0c721d8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0c721d8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">Apocryphally, though, the term \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;\"><i>L\u00fcftlmaler<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">\u201d — an “Airy Painter”<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0—\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">was first used to describe the local church painter <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Franz_Seraph_Zwinck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Franz Seraph Zwinck<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p><p>Born in 1748, Zwinck painted a number of murals around\u00a0<a style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; background-color: #ffffff; color: #fb2056;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ammergauer-alpen.de\/oberammergau\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oberammergau\u00a0<\/a>and the rest of\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">the Werdenfels region before his death in 1792.\u00a0 During that time, he was known as “the L\u00fcftlmaler from Oberammergau.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">Even in 1908, while folklorist Franz Joseph Bronner recognized Zwinck by his title as the “L\u00fcftlmaler from Oberammergau,”<span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0he still referred to the art as “<\/span><i>Frescomalerei”<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0or “<\/span><i>Fassadenmalerei<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">” — not “L\u00fcftlmalerei.”<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span id='easy-footnote-2-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-4848' title='Bronner, Franz Joseph.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><i style="font-weight: inherit;">Von Deutscher Sitt' und Art<\/i><span style="font-size: 16px;">. Munich: Verlag Max Kellerer, 1908, p. 309-32.'><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p><p>Between 1930 and 1950, his title passed from him as the mural painter, to the name of the murals, themselves.<\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">By 1959, however, all the murals — regardless of the artist — were being called “l\u00fcftlmalerei.”<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span id='easy-footnote-3-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-3-4848' title='<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">Kiessling, Paula, and Waldemar Kiessling.\u00a0<\/span><i style="font-weight: inherit;">Luftlmalerei<\/i><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">. M\u00fcnchen: Verlag F. Bruckmann, 1959, p. 7: "<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">Sp\u00e4ter hat man in der Literatur und in mannigfaltigen Ver\u00f6ffentlichungen auch andere Meister des al fresco mit diesem so heiter-musischen Beiwort geschm\u00fcckt und die Hausmalerei dann einfach 'L\u00fcftlmalerei' gehei\u00dfen."'><sup>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-84be92c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"84be92c\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a95400f\" data-id=\"a95400f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-471d9ed elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"471d9ed\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2019-06-30-11.10.08-e1568290918128-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-607\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2019-06-30-11.10.08-e1568290918128-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2019-06-30-11.10.08-e1568290918128-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2019-06-30-11.10.08-e1568290918128-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">\"Pilatushaus\" in Oberammergau, Germany, l\u00fcftlmalerei by Franz Zwinck in 1784 (2019)<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-9a4bdc8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"9a4bdc8\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e539425\" data-id=\"e539425\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6b651f1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6b651f1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">S<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">ometimes spelled \u201cl\u00fcft<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;\"><u><i>el<\/i><\/u><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">malerei\u201d or “l\u00fcft<u><i><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;\">ele<\/span><\/i><\/u>malerei,” or even “l\u00fcftl<u style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">–<\/u>malerei,” t<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">he spread of the word “l\u00fcftlmalerei” is directly connected to the\u00a0decennial\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">performance in Oberammergau, Zwinck’s hometown, of the <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oberammergau_Passion_Play\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>The Passion Play<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0— <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">a dramatic presentation depicting <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Passion_of_Jesus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Passion of Jesus Christ<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(his trial, torture, and death) performed entirely by citizens of the town, an\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">event that has occurred every ten years since 1634.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>Since 1680, the town has performed the play on years ending in the digit zero.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>“In Oberammergau, the place of the Passion Play, l\u00fcftlmalerei from the 18th to the 20th century are lined up like pearls on a necklace, starting from Ettaler Stra\u00dfe, over Dorfstra\u00dfe, and Sternplatz, to the Pilatushaus.”<span id='easy-footnote-4-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-4-4848' title='Ricker, Julia. "Bilderbuchd\u00f6rfer: Die Hohe Kunst Der L\u00fcftlmalerei In Mittenwald Und Oberammergau." <i>Monumente-Online.de<\/i>, June 2016, https:\/\/www.monumente-online.de\/de\/ausgaben\/2016\/3\/Lueftlmalerei_Mittenwald_Oberammergau.php. Accessed 31 Aug 2020: "Im Passionsspielort Oberammergau reihen sich L\u00fcftlmalereien aus dem 18. bis 20. Jahrhundert wie Perlen an einer Kette, angefangen von der Ettaler Stra\u00dfe \u00fcber die Dorfstra\u00dfe und den Sternplatz bis zum Pilatushaus."'><sup>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p><p>“The Pilatushaus is without doubt the highlight of Zwinck’s work. […] In 1784 Andreas Lang commissioned him to create the scene of Christ before Pilate for the garden side of his estate. The patron, himself, had played the role of Pilate in the Passion Play. Following all the rules of optical illusion, Zwinck’s painting evokes the illusion of a palace facade. Perspective depictions of building elements casting shadows allow the biblical story to take place on a fantastic stage.”<span id='easy-footnote-5-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-5-4848' title='<span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">Ricker, Julia. "Bilderbuchd\u00f6rfer: Die Hohe Kunst Der L\u00fcftlmalerei In Mittenwald Und Oberammergau."\u00a0<\/span><i style="font-weight: inherit;">Monumente-Online.de<\/i>, June 2016, https:\/\/www.monumente-online.de\/de\/ausgaben\/2016\/3\/Lueftlmalerei_Mittenwald_Oberammergau.php. Accessed 31 Aug 2020: "Das Pilatushaus ist fraglos H\u00f6hepunkt von Zwincks Schaffen. Heute unvorstellbar: In den 1980er-Jahren war es vom Abriss bedroht, was engagierte B\u00fcrger verhinderten und damit den K\u00fcnstler wieder ins \u00f6ffentliche Bewusstsein r\u00fcckten. Beauftragt hatte ihn 1784 Andreas Lang, der sich die Szene von Christus vor Pilatus f\u00fcr die Gartenseite seines Anwesens w\u00fcnschte. Der Verleger selbst wirkte im Rahmen der Passionsspiele in der Rolle des Pilatus mit. Nach allen Regeln der Augent\u00e4uschung ruft Zwincks Malerei die Illusion einer Palastfassade hervor. Perspektivisch dargestellte Bauglieder, die Schatten werfen, lassen die biblische Geschichte auf einer fantastischen B\u00fchne geschehen."<span style="font-size: 16px;">'><sup>5<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">While guidebooks\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">s<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">ince the early 1800s\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">have noted nearby Mittenwald is “a village consisting of very old houses curiously painted outside”<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span id='easy-footnote-6-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-6-4848' title='Murray, John.\u00a0<\/span><i style="font-weight: inherit;">A Handbook for Travellers in South Germany; Being a Guide to Bavaria, Austria, Tyrol, Salzburg, Styria, &amp;c., The Austrian and Bavarian Alps, and The Danube from Ulm to the Black Sea; Including Descriptions of the Most Frequented Baths and Watering-Places; the Principal Cities, their Museums, Picture Galleries, Etc.; The Great High Roads; and the Most Interesting and Picturesque Districts.\u00a0 Also, Directions for Travellers and Hints for Tours.\u00a0 With an Index Map<\/i><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">. London: John Murray, 3rd Ed., 1844, p. 119.'><sup>6<\/sup><\/a><\/span>, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Zwinck’s work has remained prominently displayed in Oberammergau since 1790.\u00a0 And as droves of tourists have descended on the town in exponentially increasing numbers every performance, books about Zwinck’s art have been regularly published around the same time as the Passion Play ever since.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ef7970c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ef7970c\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-757adc2\" data-id=\"757adc2\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-198f06c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"198f06c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2020-01-29-21.29.23.jpg\" data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"Screenshot 2020-01-29 21.29.23\" data-e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6NjU0MywidXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6XC9cL2x1ZWZ0bG1hbGVyZWkuY29tXC93cC1jb250ZW50XC91cGxvYWRzXC8yMDIwXC8wNFwvU2NyZWVuc2hvdC0yMDIwLTAxLTI5LTIxLjI5LjIzLmpwZyJ9\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"464\" height=\"403\" src=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2020-01-29-21.29.23.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-6543\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2020-01-29-21.29.23.jpg 464w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screenshot-2020-01-29-21.29.23-300x261.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Section from Sir Richard Francis Burton's \"A Glance at the 'Passion-Play'\" (1881)<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1e92e90\" data-id=\"1e92e90\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c75cbd5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c75cbd5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">Indeed, the earliest mention of Zwinck’s moniker<span id='easy-footnote-7-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-7-4848' title='That I have found so far.'><sup>7<\/sup><\/a><\/span> comes from an English travelogue about the 1880 performance,\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"font-weight: inherit;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;\">A Glance at the “Passion-Play<\/span>“<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0by\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Francis_Burton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sir Richard Francis Burton<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;\">Burton\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 16px;\">wrote (condescendingly) that the look of Oberammergau was “not improved by the work of a certain L\u00fcftelmaler or Freskomaler, Franz Zwinck”.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;\"><span id='easy-footnote-8-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-8-4848' title='Burton, Richard Francis. <\/span><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 16px;"><i>A Glance at the "Passion-Play"<\/i><\/span><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;">. London: W. H. Harrison, 1881, p. 48.'><sup>8<\/sup><\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">He went on to note that Zwinck “is the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;\"><a style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paolo_Veronese\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paolo Veronese<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0(say German handbooks) of the village” — suggesting, at least parenthetically, that he might have lifted the term “L\u00fcftelmaler” from some “German handbook” he picked up at the performance.<span id='easy-footnote-9-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-9-4848' title='B<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">urton, Richard Francis. <\/span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;"><i>A Glance at the "Passion-Play". <\/i>London: W. H. Harrison, 1881, p. 48.'><sup>9<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e6aa484 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e6aa484\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5ab9ed9\" data-id=\"5ab9ed9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7eaffe7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7eaffe7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Franz Joseph Bronner, the first to make a focused study and a list of the local frescoes, wrote in 1908:<\/p><p>“Around the middle of the 18th century, as one of the most famous and quickest fresco painters of all times, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luca_Giordano\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luca Giordano<\/a><\/strong> (called “<em>Fa-presto<\/em>” [“Hurry up!” in Italian]), concluded his rich life, a lesser, but in some respects similar genius to the above-mentioned, first saw the light of day: I mean Franz Zwinck, the so-called L\u00fcftlmaler, from Oberammergau.”<span id='easy-footnote-10-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-10-4848' title='Bronner, Franz Joseph.\u00a0<i>Von Deutscher Sitt' und Art<\/i>. Munich: Verlag Max Kellerer, 1908, p. 322-23: "Um die Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts, zu dessen Anfang einer der ber\u00fchmtesten und hurtigsten Freskomaler aller Zeiten, Luka Giordano [genannt Fa-presto], sein reiches Leben beschlo\u00df, erblickte ein kleineres, doch in mancher Beziehung dem Vorgenannten \u00e4hnliches Genie das Licht der Welt: Ich meine Franz Zwinck, den sogen. L\u00fcftlmaler, von Oberammergau."'><sup>10<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p><p>“Zwinck learned from [the famous church mural painter <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Knoller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martin] Knoller<\/a><\/strong>, or worked for him as a <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/famulus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">famulus<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 In 1769, when Knoller created the magnificent ceiling painting in the choir of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ettal_Abbey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ettal Abbey<\/a><\/strong>, Zwinck had already painted a fresco (“Salvage of the Body of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_of_Nepomuk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saint John of Nepomuk<\/a><\/strong>” at house no. 171), which is a masterpiece in terms of color, mood and drawing.\u00a0 Zwinck was then in his 21st year of life.”<span id='easy-footnote-11-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-11-4848' title='<span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">Bronner, Franz Joseph.\u00a0<\/span><i style="font-weight: inherit;">Von Deutscher Sitt' und Art<\/i><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">. Munich: Verlag Max Kellerer, 1908, p. 325: "<\/span>Zwinck bei Knoller gelernt habe oder doch als Famulus bei ihm t\u00e4tig gewesen sei, diese Meinung wird von manchen Kunsthistorikern bestritten.\u00a0 Im Jahre 1769 n\u00e4mlich, asl Knoller das pr\u00e4chtige Deckengem\u00e4lde im Chor der Ettaler Kirche schuf, malte Zwinck (am Hause Nr. 171) bereits ein Fresko (\u201cBergung der Leichs des hl. Johannes v. Nepomuk\u201d), das in Bezug auf Farbenreiz, Stimmungund Zeichnung ein Meisterwerk ist.\u00a0 Zwinck stand damals im 21. Lebensjahre."'><sup>11<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p><p>Bronner explained the origin of Zwinck’s title by writing that,\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">“Because Zwinck was able to paint as fast as the wind, and because his mind was always cheerful and airy [“<\/span><i style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">l\u00fcftig<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">“], he was jokingly called the L\u00fcftlmaler.”<span id='easy-footnote-12-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-12-4848' title='<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">Bronner, Franz Joseph.\u00a0<\/span><i style="font-weight: inherit;">Von Deutscher Sitt' und Art<\/i><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">. Munich: Verlag Max Kellerer, 1908, p. 331: "<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px;">Weil Zwinck das Malen so schnell wie der Wind von der Hand gegangen und weil sein Gem\u00fct stets heiter und l\u00fcftig gewesen sei, habe man ihn scherzweise den L\u00fcftlmaler gehei\u00dfen."'><sup>12<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-39df730\" data-id=\"39df730\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-65e3d34 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"65e3d34\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_4951.jpg\" data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"Pages from Von Deutscher Sitt' und Art by Franz Joseph Bronner (1908)\" data-e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6ODg0NCwidXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6XC9cL2x1ZWZ0bG1hbGVyZWkuY29tXC93cC1jb250ZW50XC91cGxvYWRzXC8yMDIwXC8wOVwvSU1HXzQ5NTEuanBnIn0%3D\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"816\" src=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_4951-1024x816.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-8844\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_4951-1024x816.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_4951-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_4951-768x612.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_4951-1536x1225.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_4951.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Pages from \"Von Deutscher Sitt' und Art\" by Franz Joseph Bronner (1908)<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1140095 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1140095\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ae6a56e\" data-id=\"ae6a56e\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2bb49b8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2bb49b8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">In the eponymously titled booklet\u00a0<\/span><i>Franz Zwinck,\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">der L\u00fcftlmaler von\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><i>Oberammergau<\/i>,<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">a fictionalized account of the painter’s life,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">first published in 1910 with a second edition published in 1930 (both years in which the Passion Play was performed), the author, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">Alois Frietinger, took Bronner’s description and ran with it,<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0imagining\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">that one night in 1769,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;\"><a style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; background-color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Knoller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Martin Knoller<\/b><\/a>, himself,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">gave the title to a 21 year-old Zwinck after seeing him work, saying:\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>“And you, my dear Ammergauer, because of your frenzied, windswept life, even more because of the sheer unbelievable speed of your design and execution, in which you resemble the brilliant <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luca_Giordano\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luca Giordano<\/a><\/strong>, whom they called <i>Fa Presto<\/i>, i.e. ‘<i>Machschnell<\/i>!’\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">[“Hurry up!” in German],<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0I would like to call you, in plain German, a ‘L\u00fcftlmaler’ — you will become a great one, once your <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Must\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">young wine<\/a><\/strong> has finished fermenting and you have become a pure man!”<span id='easy-footnote-13-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-13-4848' title='Frietinger, Alois. <\/span><i style="font-weight: inherit;">Franz Zwinck, Der L\u00fcftlmaler von Obrammergau. Erz\u00e4hlung. <\/i><span style="font-size: 16px;">Regensburg: Verlagsanstalt vorm. Manz, 2nd Ed., 1930, p. 22: "Und du, mein lieber Ammergauer, ich m\u00f6chte dich wegen deines windfl\u00fcchtigen Sauselebens, noch mehr wegen der schier unglaublichen Schnelligkeit im Entwerfen und Ausf\u00fchren, in dem du dem genialen Luka Giordano, den sie <\/span><i style="font-weight: inherit;">Fa presto<\/i><span style="font-size: 16px;">, d.h. 'Machschnell!' nannten, gleichst, ich m\u00f6chte dich gut deutsch einen 'L\u00fcftlmaler' nennen -- du wirst, wenn dein Brausemost vergoren und du dich zum reinen Menschen durchgerungen hast, ein Gro\u00dfer werden!"'><sup>13<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">And “from that hour on,” Frietinger wrote, “the ‘L\u00fcftlmaler'” was how “Franz Zwinck was generally known”.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span id='easy-footnote-14-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-14-4848' title='Frietinger, Alois.\u00a0<\/span><i style="font-weight: inherit;">Franz Zwinck, Der L\u00fcftlmaler von Obrammergau. Erz\u00e4hlung.<\/i><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">\u00a0Regensburg: Verlagsanstalt vorm. Manz, 2nd Ed., 1930, p. 22: "Vor allem dem 'L\u00fcftlmaler', wie Franz Zwinck von der Stunde an allgemein genannt wurde, war es, als sei in seinem Leben ein bedeutender Wendepunkt eingetreten."<\/span>'><sup>14<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-64dc5ac elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"64dc5ac\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-448d1b0\" data-id=\"448d1b0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-df259b4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"df259b4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2019-09-30-14.33.22-e1569858127673-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1016\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2019-09-30-14.33.22-e1569858127673-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2019-09-30-14.33.22-e1569858127673-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Section from the 2nd edition of Alois Frietinger's booklet,\"Franz Zwinck, Der L\u00fcftlmaler von Oberammergau\" (1930)<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-41a4ae1\" data-id=\"41a4ae1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1774123 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1774123\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2019-09-30-14.26.56-e1569858156948-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1017\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2019-09-30-14.26.56-e1569858156948-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2019-09-30-14.26.56-e1569858156948-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Page from the 1st edition of Paula and Waldemar Kiessling's \"L\u00fcftlmalerei\" (1959)<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8306cc4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8306cc4\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2f5fce1\" data-id=\"2f5fce1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-220f8f4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"220f8f4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Frietinger’s story is a charming novella, but lacks any merit.<span id='easy-footnote-15-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-15-4848' title='<span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">Lievert,\u00a0<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">Carl B.<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">\u00a0<\/span><i style="font-weight: inherit;">Goldenes Landl-Buch; Sammelband 1954 - 1956; Heimatbeilage Garmisch-Partenkirchner Tagblatt f\u00fcr die T\u00e4ler an der Loisach, Isar und Ammer<\/i><span style="font-size: 16px;">. Adam Verlag, 1998,\u00a0<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px;">p. 72: "Die Abhandlung A. Frietingers am Bayernheft Nr. 38, Verlag Oldenburg, M\u00fcnchen, unter dem Titel: \u201eWie der L\u00fcftlmaler zu seinem Namen kam\u201d ist als eine liebensw\u00fcrdige Novelle zu werten, entbehrt jedoch jedweder historisch belegbaren Grundlage und kann daher als Quelle nicht angef\u00fchrt werden."'><sup>15<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">In perhaps the first actual biography of Zwinck,\u00a0<\/span><i>Lueftelmaler Franz Seraph Zwink von Oberammergau<\/i> published in 1921, author\u00a0Josef Richard B\u00fchrlen\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">suggested the artist’s title “L\u00fcftlmaler” came from the fact that he spent most of his life\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">on scaffolding\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">at “lofty heights” (“<\/span><i style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">luftiger H\u00f6he<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">“)<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">, working on the walls of houses in the open air.<span id='easy-footnote-16-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-16-4848' title='Lievert,\u00a0<\/span>Carl B.<span style="font-size: 16px;">\u00a0<i>Landl-Buch; Sammelband 1954 - 1956; Heimatbeilage Garmisch-Partenkirchner Tagblatt f\u00fcr die T\u00e4ler an der Loisach, Isar und Ammer<\/i>.\u00a0<\/span>Adam Verlag, 1998,\u00a0<span style="font-size: 16px;">p. 72: "<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px;">Hauptlehrer J. R. B\u00fchrlen von Ettal vertritt in seiner flei\u00dfigen Arbeit \u00fcber Zwink die ansicht, da\u00df des K\u00fcnstlers Beiname \u201eL\u00fcftlmaler\u201d vorwiegend darauf zur\u00fcckzuf\u00fchren ist, da\u00df er die meiste Zeit seines Lebens seinem m\u00fchsamen k\u00fcnstlerischen Erwerb in \u201eluftiger H\u00f6he\u201d auf Ger\u00fcsten und Fahrst\u00fchlen nachging und das ganze Jahr \u00fcber in der freien Natur an den W\u00e4nden der H\u00e4user emsig schaffend t\u00e4tig war.<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px;">"'><sup>16<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">The\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal;\"><a style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gapa.de\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;\">Garmisch-Partenkirchen Tourist Office<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">has adopted this a<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">s the official origin for the word — explaining on its\u00a0<a style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gapa.de\/en\/Culture-health\/Culture\/Attractions\/Historic-Partenkirchen\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;\">website<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">“name ‘L\u00fcftlmalerei’ comes from a time when fa\u00e7ade artist Franz Seraph Zwinck worked in lofty heights [“<\/span><i>luftige<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<i>H\u00f6he<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">“]\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">to complete his masterpieces.”<span id='easy-footnote-17-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-17-4848' title='<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">"Historic Ludwigstra\u00dfe: A Street To Strut Along".\u00a0<\/span><i style="font-weight: inherit;">Gapa.de<\/i><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">, 2020, https:\/\/www.gapa.de\/en\/Culture-health\/Culture\/Attractions\/Historic-Partenkirchen. Accessed 1 Sept 2020.'><sup>17<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-34db85b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"34db85b\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b30221a\" data-id=\"b30221a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-14e2452 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"14e2452\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Loisachstra\u00dfe-20-2019-06-23-15.39.01-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2796\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Loisachstra\u00dfe-20-2019-06-23-15.39.01-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Loisachstra\u00dfe-20-2019-06-23-15.39.01-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Loisachstra\u00dfe-20-2019-06-23-15.39.01-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Loisachstra\u00dfe-20-2019-06-23-15.39.01-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Loisachstra\u00dfe-20-2019-06-23-15.39.01-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">\"Fisherwoman and Fisherman\" by Heinrich Bickel at Loisachstra\u00dfe 20, painted some time before 1939 (2019)<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-76df285 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"76df285\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e2d491a\" data-id=\"e2d491a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5e38fb9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5e38fb9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">In the succinctly titled\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><i>L\u00fcftlmalerei<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">, first published in 1959, authors Paula and Waldemar Kiessling admitted that the exact reason Zwinck had been given the epithet \u201cL\u00fcftlmaler\u201d had been lost.<span id='easy-footnote-18-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-18-4848' title='<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px;">Kiessling, Paula, and Waldemar Kiessling.\u00a0<\/span><i style="font-weight: inherit;">Luftlmalerei<\/i><span style="font-size: 16px;">. M\u00fcnchen: Verlag F. Bruckmann, 1959, p. 5: "Warum im \u00fcbrigen sich Zwinck gerade diesen Beinamen beigelegt hat, ist nicht mehr sicher feststellbar."'><sup>18<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">They then went on to imagine that Zwinck had given the title to himself, “thinking of how airy [“<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;\"><i>luftig<\/i><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">“]\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">and somewhat drafty it was on the scaffolding from which he painted the damp lime plaster with a hasty brush<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">“.<span id='easy-footnote-19-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-19-4848' title='<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">Kiessling, Paula, and Waldemar Kiessling.\u00a0<\/span><i style="font-weight: inherit;">Luftlmalerei<\/i><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">. M\u00fcnchen: Verlag F. Bruckmann, 1959, p. 5: "<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px;">Es mag sein, da\u00df er dabei daran gedacht hat, wie luftig und etwas zugig es auf dem Ger\u00fcst stets war, von dem aus er mit eiligem Pinsel den feuchten Kalkbewurf bemalte, der nur auf so viel Fl\u00e4che der Hauswand aufgetragen werden durfte, als er in einem Tag malerisch bew\u00e4ltigen konnte."'><sup>19<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">They suggested that “the word ‘L\u00fcftlmaler’ suddenly came to his mind on his scaffolding while he was whistling a song.”<span id='easy-footnote-20-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-20-4848' title='<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">Kiessling, Paula, and Waldemar Kiessling.\u00a0<\/span><i style="font-weight: inherit;">Luftlmalerei<\/i><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">. M\u00fcnchen: Verlag F. Bruckmann, 1959, p. 5-6: "<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">Jedenfalls ist Zwinck auch mit seinem Beinamen etwas besonders Grazi\u00f6ses eingefallen, und wir k\u00f6nnen uns gut vorstellen, wie ihm eines Tages auf seinem Ger\u00fcst, als er vielleicht gerade ein Liedl vor sich hinpfiff, pl\u00f6tzlich das Wort \u201cL\u00fcftlmaler\u201d in den Sinn gekommen ist."'><sup>20<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a41722c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a41722c\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1c944b5\" data-id=\"1c944b5\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-94b92f1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"94b92f1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_0050-e1569901572963-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-370\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_0050-e1569901572963-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_0050-e1569901572963-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5158a80\" data-id=\"5158a80\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-065abf8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"065abf8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">More recently<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0some authors have suggested that Zwinck might have actually gotten his title as the original “L\u00fcftlmaler” from the name of his house.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>This is a possibility, because, starting in the 14th Century in rural areas of what is now Southern Germany, it became common for farmers to be known by the name of their <i>Hof<\/i> — their “farm” or “estate.” There might be a number of families with the same <i>Nachname<\/i>, or family name, living in the same small village so, for tax purposes, by decree, every household had to have its own individual mark.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p>This led to people naming their houses — names you can still see on buildings in Bavaria today.<\/p><p>Citizens would also sometimes then be identified on official church registries and tax records by their <i>Hofname,<\/i>\u00a0rather than their family name.<\/p><p>Franz Joseph Bronner noted in 1908 that, “Zwinck never achieved great wealth with his art.\u00a0 But he did manage to afford himself a small, cozy home:\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">house no. 156 in the lower alley on the <\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ammer_(Neckar)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ammer River<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">.\u00a0 Only about 30 years ago [about 1880], the locals still called it ‘Beim L\u00fcftlmaler’.”<span id='easy-footnote-21-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-21-4848' title='Bronner, Franz Joseph.<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">\u00a0<\/span><i style="font-weight: inherit;">Von Deutscher Sitt' und Art<\/i><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">. Munich: Verlag Max Kellerer, 1908, p. 331: "<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px;">Zwinck mit seiner Kunst nie zu gro\u00dfem Reichtum.\u00a0 Doch ein kleines, trautes Heim er\u00fcbrigte er sich: Haus-Nr. 156 in der unteren Gasse an der Ammer.\u00a0 Noch vor ca. 30 Jahren nannte es der Volksmund 'Beim L\u00fcftlmaler'."<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px;">'><sup>21<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p>A two-story craftsman’s house<span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">with a sloping gable roof,\u00a0<\/span>it was built in the first half of the 18th century\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">and still boasts frescoes supposedly painted by Zwinck, himself, around the year 1780.\u00a0<\/span>One can also still just make out the house name, “L\u00fcftl,” faintly above the entrance door.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span id='easy-footnote-22-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-22-4848' title='<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px;">Dikova, Valia. Alte H\u00e4user in den Ammergauer Alpen \u2013 Judashaus in Oberammergau. Blog: "Oberamergau erleben!" Accessed 2021-04-20.\u00a0<\/span><a style="font-size: 16px; background-color: #ffffff;" href="https:\/\/www.oberammergau-erleben.de\/alte-haeuser-in-den-ammergauer-alpen-judashaus-in-oberammergau\/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>https:\/\/www.oberammergau-erleben.de\/alte-haeuser-in-den-ammergauer-alpen-judashaus-in-oberammergau\/<\/b><\/a><span style="font-size: 16px;">:\u00a0<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px;">"<\/span>Dieses Haus ist einer der ersten b\u00fcrgerlichen H\u00e4user, die mit Fresken au\u00dfen bemalt wurden. Der Hausname ist \u201eL\u00fcftl\u201c, der auch noch schwach \u00fcber der Eingangst\u00fcr zu sehen ist. Ob der Name dem Handwerk oder andersrum gegeben hat, l\u00e4sst sich leider nicht mehr wissenschaftlich rekonstruieren.\u00a0\u00a0<span style="font-size: 16px;">Es ist ein Handwerkerhaus mit einem zweigeschossiger nordwestlich abgeschr\u00e4gtem Flachsatteldachbau mit Zierbund und Fassadenmalerei, gebaut in der ersten H\u00e4lfte des 18. Jahrhunderts, \u00fcbergangene Fresken von Franz Seraph Zwinck um 1780."<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px;">'><sup>22<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5407ac5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5407ac5\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-82e4c9b\" data-id=\"82e4c9b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a373405 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"a373405\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Judasgasse-2-Photo-Apr-24-11-37-59-scaled.jpg\" data-elementor-open-lightbox=\"yes\" data-elementor-lightbox-title=\"Judasgasse 2\" data-e-action-hash=\"#elementor-action%3Aaction%3Dlightbox%26settings%3DeyJpZCI6MTE4OTEsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOlwvXC9sdWVmdGxtYWxlcmVpLmNvbVwvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyMVwvMDRcL0p1ZGFzZ2Fzc2UtMi1QaG90by1BcHItMjQtMTEtMzctNTktc2NhbGVkLmpwZyJ9\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Judasgasse-2-Photo-Apr-24-11-37-59-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-11891\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Judasgasse-2-Photo-Apr-24-11-37-59-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Judasgasse-2-Photo-Apr-24-11-37-59-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Judasgasse-2-Photo-Apr-24-11-37-59-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Judasgasse-2-Photo-Apr-24-11-37-59-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Judasgasse-2-Photo-Apr-24-11-37-59-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">The name above the door at what is now Judasgasse 2 in Oberammergau<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4b1cb49 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4b1cb49\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8901d94\" data-id=\"8901d94\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4330790 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4330790\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>According to the authors of\u00a0<i style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;\">Bemalte Fassaden<\/i>, published in Germany in 1975, research done by one of Zwinck’s descendants, Alfred Oskar Zwinck, showed that his forefather, although he died in 1792, had lived in Oberammergau at house “No. 98”, an address secularization records from around 1803 from the nearby\u00a0<a style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ettal_Abbey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Ettal Abbey<\/span><\/a>\u00a0identify as \u201c<i style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">L\u00fcftl mit 1\/32 Hoffuss<\/i>\u201d — or \u201cL\u00fcftl with 1\/32 foot yard\u201d.\u00a0 Another church entry in Oberammergau in 1839 also lists the Hausname for the Zwinck family as \u201cL\u00fcftl\u201d.<span id='easy-footnote-23-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-23-4848' title='<span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">Kiessling, Paula, and Waldemar Kiessling.\u00a0<\/span><i style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit;">Luftlmalerei<\/i><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">. M\u00fcnchen: Verlag F. Bruckmann, 1959, p. 7: "<\/span>Er n\u00e4mlich wohnte im Haus Nr. 98, das die Kloster Ettaler S\u00e4kularisationsakten als \u201cL\u00fcftl mit 1\/32 Hoffuss\u201d ausweisen.\u00a0 Es handelt sich bei \u201cL\u00fcftl\u201d um einen Hausnamen f\u00fcr die Familien Zwinck, was auch eine pfarramtliche Eintragung vom Jahre 1839 in Oberammergau noch beweist.\u00a0 \u201cL\u00fcftl\u201d als Familiennamen waren im Landkreis Garmisch-Partenkirchen noch zwei weitere belegt.\u00a0 Die Forschungen eines Nachkommen des Malers Franz Zwinck, der aus dem L\u00fcftl-haus stammte, Alfred O. Zwinck in Oberammergau belegten urkundlich diese Zusammenh\u00e4nge."'><sup>23<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">Thus, because Franz Zwinck was the painter from the “L\u00fcftl” family house, some authors have suggested, he was therefore called the “L\u00fcftl” painter.<span id='easy-footnote-24-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-24-4848' title='<\/span>Dewiel, Lydia L. Oberbayern: Kunst und Landschaft zwischen dem Altm\u00fchltal und Alpen Mit Rundg\u00e4ngen durch die Landeshauptstadt M\u00fcnchen. M\u00fcnchen: DuMont Reiseverlag, 1996, pp. 248-49:\u00a0<span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">"<\/span>Als Franz Seraph bereits ein viel besch\u00e4ftigter Freskant war, bewohnte er in Oberammergau das Haus\u00a0<span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">\u00bb<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px;">zum L\u00fcftl<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">\u00ab<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px;">\u00a0in der Judasgasse. Nicht die Arbeit an der frischen Luft trug also dem Fassadenmaler seinen Namen ein \u2014 es war sein Haus, das ihn zum L\u00fcftlmaler machte."<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">'><sup>24<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">However, since<\/span>\u00a0he produced many works throughout the Werdenfels region, and because he signed his works with his actual name (Franz “Zwinck”) and not his address (Franz “von L\u00fcftl” for instance), no one besides perhaps his neighbors in Oberammergau would have confused his art with the name on his house.\u00a0 Moreover, because\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">many rural houses bore names that came from the titles and professions of the people who lived in them, i<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">t makes much more sense that Zwinck’s house was actually <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">named<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">after<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">him<b style=\"font-style: italic;\">,<\/b><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0and not the other way around.<span id='easy-footnote-25-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-25-4848' title='For instance, because several of Zwinck's descendants played Judas in the Passion Play, the alley where they lived in Oberammergau was renamed "Judasgasse" (rather than because they lived on Judasgasse they were asked to play Judas). See the research done at Valia Dikova's blog, Oberammergau erleben! "<\/span>Alte H\u00e4user in den Ammergauer Alpen \u2013 Judashaus in Oberammergau." Accessed 2021-04-20.\u00a0<a href="https:\/\/www.oberammergau-erleben.de\/alte-haeuser-in-den-ammergauer-alpen-judashaus-in-oberammergau\/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><b>https:\/\/www.oberammergau-erleben.de\/alte-haeuser-in-den-ammergauer-alpen-judashaus-in-oberammergau\/<\/b><\/a><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">\u00a0'><sup>25<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-adaaef6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"adaaef6\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-03b8000\" data-id=\"03b8000\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9632e47 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"9632e47\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2019-06-30-11.14.01-e1565114131331-768x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-527\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2019-06-30-11.14.01-e1565114131331-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2019-06-30-11.14.01-e1565114131331-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">Franz Zwinck's signature on the Pilatushaus in Oberammergau in 1784 (2019)<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7bee215 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7bee215\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-40498aa\" data-id=\"40498aa\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d5b800b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d5b800b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">Finally,<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0s<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">ome authors have made allusions to an entirely alternate origin for the title, suggesting that a man with the actual last name “L\u00fcftl” — “either Korbinian, Ignaz, or Josef” — created the first such paintings.<\/span><\/p><p>This line springs up, for instance, in Herbert Meider and Franz Stoltefaut’s <i>L\u00fcftlmalerei an Isar, Partnach, Loisach und Ammer<\/i>, published in 2003.<span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span id='easy-footnote-26-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-26-4848' title='Meider, Herbert and Franz Stoltefaut.\u00a0<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;"><i>L\u00fcftlmalerei an Isar, Partnach, Loisach und Ammer.<\/i><\/span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">\u00a0Media-Verlag Schubert, 2003, p. 4: "<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">oder von einem Korbinian, Ignaz oder Josef L\u00fcftl, der die ersten Malereien dieser Art geschaffen haben sollte."'><sup>26<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0 However, those authors don’t cite a single source or reference a single work. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">S<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">ubsequent writers have simply repeated that line.<span id='easy-footnote-27-4848' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/#easy-footnote-bottom-27-4848' title='For example:<\/span><\/p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">\u2022 Waldstein, Mella. "Waldviertel: Die L\u00fcftlmalerei". <\/span><i style="font-weight: inherit;">Kultur.Region\u00a0<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;">Schaufenster<\/span><\/i><span style="font-size: 16px;">. Volkskultur Nieder\u00f6sterreich GmbH, Atzenbrugg, \u00d6sterreich, September 2012, p. 30: "Da wird ein Josef L\u00fcftl als\u00a0<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px;">K\u00fcnstler genannt."<\/span><\/p><p><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">\u2022 Schetar, Daniela and Friedrich K\u00f6the.\u00a0<\/span><i style="font-weight: inherit;">Servus im Oberland: Bier, Barock und Badeseen<\/i><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">. Gmeiner-Verlag, 2014: "Warum die bunten Bilder 'L\u00fcftlmalereien' hei\u00dfen, ist unbekannt: Kommt 'L\u00fcftl' von der luftigen H\u00f6he, in der die K\u00fcnstler arbeiten m\u00fcssen? War ein Maler namens Josef L\u00fcftl der Erfinder dieser Freskotechnik? Oder ist das Oberammergauer Haus 'Zum Liftl' der Geburtsort?"<\/span><\/p><p><span style="font-size: 16px;">\u2022 Bauer, Hans-Peter Dinesh. "L\u00fcftlmalerei \u2013 Hof &amp; Herrgott". <\/span><i style="font-weight: inherit;">My Marterl<\/i><span style="font-size: 16px;">, 12 February 2014, https:\/\/mymarterl.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/12\/luftlmalerei-hof-herrgott\/. Accessed 2 Sept 2020: "In einer anderen Version fungiert ein tonangebender Vertreter dieser Stilrichtung namens\u00a0 Josef oder Ignaz L\u00fcftl als Namenspatron."<\/span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;">'><sup>27<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-14ce1b5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"14ce1b5\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-25 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f4b48d1\" data-id=\"f4b48d1\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-22ccef8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"22ccef8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"973\" src=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Bemalte-Fassaden-page-108-1024x973.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-8463\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Bemalte-Fassaden-page-108-1024x973.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Bemalte-Fassaden-page-108-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Bemalte-Fassaden-page-108-768x730.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Bemalte-Fassaden-page-108-1536x1460.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Bemalte-Fassaden-page-108.jpg 1757w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">L\u00fcftlmalerei of Saint George Slaying a Dragon from \"Holzgau im Lechtal, Tirol\" by Josef Gegenhart (circa 1790); photograph from Bemalte Fassaden by Margarete Baur-Heinhold (1975)<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-25 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-184fedf\" data-id=\"184fedf\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1d68ed4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1d68ed4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"326\" height=\"328\" src=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Ludwigstrase-21-2019-10-18-12.07.03.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-8484\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Ludwigstrase-21-2019-10-18-12.07.03.jpg 326w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Ludwigstrase-21-2019-10-18-12.07.03-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Ludwigstrase-21-2019-10-18-12.07.03-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">L\u00fcftlmalerei on Ludwigstra\u00dfe 21 by Sepp Guggemoos<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-25 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-90e466f\" data-id=\"90e466f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-935f94b elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"935f94b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1005\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ho\u0308lzlweg-36-2019-08-05-09.23.09-painting-faces-Waldweg-2-1005x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2380\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ho\u0308lzlweg-36-2019-08-05-09.23.09-painting-faces-Waldweg-2-1005x1024.jpg 1005w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ho\u0308lzlweg-36-2019-08-05-09.23.09-painting-faces-Waldweg-2-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ho\u0308lzlweg-36-2019-08-05-09.23.09-painting-faces-Waldweg-2-768x782.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Ho\u0308lzlweg-36-2019-08-05-09.23.09-painting-faces-Waldweg-2.jpg 1177w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1005px) 100vw, 1005px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">L\u00fcftlmalerei on H\u00f6lzlweg 36 by Sepp Guggemoos<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-25 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-81baa61\" data-id=\"81baa61\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-068ebdf elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"068ebdf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"989\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Dreitorspitzstra\u00dfe-3-2019-07-17-08.36.59-989x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1688\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Dreitorspitzstra\u00dfe-3-2019-07-17-08.36.59-989x1024.jpg 989w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Dreitorspitzstra\u00dfe-3-2019-07-17-08.36.59-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Dreitorspitzstra\u00dfe-3-2019-07-17-08.36.59-768x795.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Dreitorspitzstra\u00dfe-3-2019-07-17-08.36.59.jpg 1876w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 989px) 100vw, 989px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">L\u00fcftlmalerei on Dreitorspitzstra\u00dfe 3 by Sepp Guggemoos<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-67b2b82 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"67b2b82\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-161bf39\" data-id=\"161bf39\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ea1bff3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ea1bff3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">Regardless of how Zwinck first got his title, and whether or not he’s the reason we now call all of these murals “L\u00fcftlmalerei,” there have since his time been a number of well-known and celebrated artists in the field of L\u00fcftlmalerei painting.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">And while the fresco method\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">of working in wet plaster used by the Romans,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">perfected during the Renaissance, and practiced by Zwinck is still a skill employed by present day L\u00fcftlmalers, these days it’s pretty much just reserved for the preservation of antique paintings in old churches.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">The Garmisch-Partenkirchen\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">Baugestaltungssatzung<\/i><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">, or local building design statutes, requires that all “outer walls are to be plastered and painted.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Today, painters use a number of modern techniques, but you will still see the same\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">subject matter dating back to the 15th Century prominently displayed on the walls of brand new buildings here:\u00a0 From house names and coats of arms, patron saints and Biblical stories, to tradesmen still advertising their work.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">As you walk the streets, you will still find<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0these classical motifs all around you in the\u00a0<\/span>vibrant, un-curated, open-air, art museum that is the\u00a0town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria, Germany.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-52d0376 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"52d0376\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-837591b\" data-id=\"837591b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bf3946d elementor-align-center elementor-tablet-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"bf3946d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">The History of L\u00fcftlmalerei in Garmisch-Partenkirchen<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-44b296f\" data-id=\"44b296f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d839d64 elementor-align-center elementor-tablet-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"d839d64\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/styles-and-symbols\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Common Styles and Symbols <\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2e50a16\" data-id=\"2e50a16\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-591dcb5 elementor-align-center elementor-tablet-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"591dcb5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button 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That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet;” – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet In German, this style of decoration might be called H\u00e4userw\u00e4nde (“house walls”),\u00a0Fassadenkunst\u00a0(“facade art”), Fassadenbemalungen (“facade paintings”),\u00a0Wandgem\u00e4lde\u00a0(“wall murals”), Au\u00dfenmalerei\u00a0(“exterior paintings”),\u00a0Frischmalerei\u00a0(“fresh paintings”), Freskenmalerei\u00a0(“fresco paintings”),\u00a0or simply\u00a0Wandmalerei\u00a0(“wall paintings”).\u00a0\u00a0 But …<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/history-of-luftlmalerei-in-garmisch-partenkirchen\/origin-of-the-word\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Origin of the Word “L\u00fcftlmalerei”<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":480,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4848","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"THE ORIGIN of the WORD “L\u00fcftlmalerei” “What\u2019s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet;” – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet In German, this style of decoration might be called H\u00e4userw\u00e4nde (“house walls”),\u00a0Fassadenkunst\u00a0(“facade art”), Fassadenbemalungen (“facade paintings”),\u00a0Wandgem\u00e4lde\u00a0(“wall murals”), Au\u00dfenmalerei\u00a0(“exterior paintings”),\u00a0Frischmalerei\u00a0(“fresh paintings”), Freskenmalerei\u00a0(“fresco paintings”),\u00a0or simply\u00a0Wandmalerei\u00a0(“wall paintings”).\u00a0\u00a0 But…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4848"}],"version-history":[{"count":321,"href":"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11900,"href":"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4848\/revisions\/11900"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lueftlmalerei.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}