RESEARCH TEAM
Pascal Werner
Lukas Piccolin (Association PRO ELISARION)
Point Cloud Visualization of The Original Rotunda and the Cyclorama
The cicular painting “The Clear World of the Blissful” by Elisàr von Kupffer (1872-1942) was the center of von Kupffer’s house, called Elisarion, in Minusio ( Ticino) and was on display from 1939 in a rotunda added to the house. The exhibition designer Harald Szeemann saved the painting from destruction in the late 1970s when all the art work was cleared out of von Kupffer’s house. After touring as part of an Szeemann-exhibition the circular painting was installed in a wooden pavilion on Monte Verità Ascona due to lack of finances, where it has remaind up to this day.
Von Kupffer’s house with the original rotunda still existing, serves currently as cultural center for Minusio. Based on 3D-Scanning methods developped at the chair of landscape architecture at ETH Zurich the circular painting can be virtually reconstructed and visualized in its original rotunda.
