Zugspitzstraße
Zugspitzstraße 1, Kreissparkasse bank branch.
Construction worker, farm worker, grandfather with grandson, painted by Heinrich Bickel some time after 1945.
Zugspitzstraße 13.
Zugspitzstraße 17.
Zugspitzstraße 19.
Zugspitzstraße 26.
Zugspitzstraße 31.
Saint Martin, R. Schönberger, 1976.
Zugspitzstraße 33.
Farmers reading newspapers by Heinrich Bickel, painted some time after 1945.
According to the owner of Zugspitzstraße 35, the house was originally built in 1953 by his mother and his stepfather.
As he tells it, although money was scarce, his stepfather — whose last name was “Klarwein” — absolutely wanted a lüftlmalerei on the outside of the building, and so hired the master painter Isidor Winterholler. The main motif above the door is the Klarwein family crest, but the rest of the facade was drawn free hand by the artist.
The house name, “Haus Brigitte,” was in memory of his stepfather’s mother, “Brigitte.”
In the 1990s, a restoration was done by Sebastian Pfeffer. Five years ago, another restoration was done by Peter Frischmann, who was working as a painter in Grainau at the time.
Neither restorer changed anything from the original work.
Zugspitzstraße 52.
Zugspitzstraße 54.
Sepp Guggemoos, 1996.
Zugsptizstraße 59.
At Zugspitzstraße 75, on the bright red corner of Hotel Rheinischer Hof, a lüftlmalerei by Bernhard Ludwig Rieger, painted in 2012.
Above, an older, traditional mountaineer. Below him, a modern, young climber, the two connected in time on the same rope. One leg of the young climber slips off into the abyss — his life-line and his foot actually dangling out from the painting.
Zugspitzstraße 83.
Zugspitzstraße 91, Haus Windrose.
Heinrich Bickel.
Zugspitzstraße 95.
Zugspitzstraße 96.
Zugspitzstraße 99.
Zugspitzstraße 102.
Zugspitzstraße 110.
Zugspitzstraße 119.
Zugspitzstraße 124, lüftlmalerei by Heinrich Bickel, 1949.
The mural on the former Baumer company building depicts construction workers just about to raise a wall. They do not use modern machines such as cranes and concrete mixers, instead they work with traditional handicraft devices from pre-industrial times, such as wheelbarrows and trowels.
The scenario of everyday activities is exaggerated into the sacred by the Holy Family enthroned above the workers in the clouds. This exaggeration also underlines the motto: “Arm beams, cut stones, God the Lord will build.”
On the bay windows, Bickel depicts a seamstress, a winemaker, a gardener, and a woodworker.
On the bay windows, Bickel depicts a seamstress, a winemaker, a gardener, and a woodworker. Here, too, Bickel does not paint them working with modern techniques; rather, his laborers are only equipped with traditional, simple, pre-industrial hand tools.
Heinrich Bickel designed the same motif — a rich, story-telling representation of the construction workers doing their jobs — at the Baumer family’s home at Alpspitzstraße 29.
