Mural Decoration and Trompe L'oeil

Achim Steudter

He is a Alchemist of the craftsmen, a David Copperfield of the painting.
Under the stroke of brush Achim Steudter transforms plaster to marble and chipboards to root.
A simple cupboard he performs only with some gold leaves and stucco in a pomp style furniture of the Sun King Louis XIV.
For more than 35 years the trained stucco plasterer and artist is dedicated to the wall painting.
First at all, the 53 year old artist, had had a studio in Germany near of Düsseldorf, but in the last 10 years he is embellishing the mansions of the high society of Majorca.
Steudter is a absolute aesthete.
That must be it, because what his clients appreciate about him is his self-confident
walking on the narrow level of good taste.
The finely marble veins are the most commonly enquiry, but he imitates surfaces of any kind, be they noble wood, malachite, lapis lazuli or granite.
He gives the objects an individual touch: a little bit Versace, old Rom or old –style classic like Warrings or Trüggemann? No problem for him.
The special you will find often in the simplest-just a few years ago he painted sandstones over a gate of a Villa in Majorca.“ The black metal of the entrance my clients find it too boring.” details Steudter.
Today 500 different stone bricks adorn the gate” That was a lot of work, because
every several had be coloured 5 till six times for to obtain a special profoundness.
Profoundness – for Steudter an important thing.
Always involves the surface with a thousand small wiping techniques, brush strokes or the establishment or to apply or removal colours.
Three-dimensionality to elicit is what Steudter understand under a perfect illusion.
With profoundness he speaks over him self,
when he tells what his work means to him.
Then, with his eyes alive with passions ,he tells how his hobby became a profession and that he hate nothing more than colleagues which are accepting orders only for the sake of money .
“My customers are very rich, but envy for me was never a problem.”
Willi Weber has had embellished his house, the Nixdorf Villa bears his handwriting and even the prince Sayn-Wittgenstein have already booked him.
“Many people think painted marble is something for those who truly can not afford it.” he relate shaking the head. Far from it! The prize is about 300 € each square meter.
Painted marble offers the luxury to determined the grains.
For stone, the surfaces of the block beaten unpredictable wild veins and which can t be calculated.

Other than the stone brushed from Steudter.
With deft fingers he breathes layer by layer on the pillar, after 3 times primed , then sanded ( “the surface must be mirror-smooth”)following he applies an ivory white synthetic resin varnish.
This is important, so that the quick-drying oil paint (Alyd colour)
can be obliterated until the tenderness of genuine marble veins are achieved.
In his brush assortment are copies, as the exotic subjects in miniature version look, or the “Distributor“, an two headed soft bristly brush, a bit of a bush drum remembers.
Sponge or leather scraps, has also been used, depending on the kind of marble desired.
For many customers, he immediately takes over the complete project.
Then becomes in the computer in his apartment in Majorca bathrooms, which seems like roman temples or pool halls like palaces.
Completed his designs will be with wall paintings. “Trompe-l oeil “is the magic word.
Our eyes will dream of pastel-colours landscapes fondles and optical tricks guide look into a distance that doesn’t exist. All the wall paintings are designed by his terminate Rolf Ohst; one of the best wall painter, which he says about him.
Even Achim Steudter eminent authority is regarded as his name is on the internet so often sought to it in google-ranking on the top ranks.
At most he lives in Majorca, he is not an unknown person in Germany : The turned TV reportages will regular repeat. In the moment Steudter thinks about to give out together with a publisher a reference book .With a lot of silver and gold he whistle blows – to remain true his noble taste.

Achim Steudter is working with a big passion and whom his hobby is on the same time his job.

www.achimsteudter.com

Marble Painting Azul Macauba