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"Tracing Stone Legacies: Documentation and Conservation of a Unique Collection of Building Stone Specimens"

As part of this seminar, the extensive specimen collection of building and decorative stones assembled by the heritage geologist Alois Kieslinger (1900–1975) is being documented and preserved. This collection comprises over 3,500 stone samples, primarily from the former Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and neighboring countries. The process involves the digital inventory of the collection, including the handwritten notes and historical labels. Each sample is assigned a new inventory number and photographed from both the front and back. Following this, conservation measures like cleaning and gluing of fragmented pieces as well as of historic labels are implemented and the storage conditions improved (dust cover, separation layers etc.).

The course is part of an ERASMUS+ BIP project and can only be attended in combination with the courses of the same name offered by Katharina Fuchs and Farkas Pinter.

The project is a collaboration with the stone conservation classes  from the University of Split (Academy of Fine Arts, Croatia) and the University of Pardubice, Faculty of Restoration (Czech Republic), as well as the Federal Monuments Authority Austria.

Students will be assessed based on their attendance and active participation.

The course can only be attended together with the course by Katherina Fuchs and Farkas Pinter. The course is taking place in the Charthouse in Mauerbach, Lower Austria.