page_title: Von Bock House
section_title: 2007 renovation and another mural
hierarchical_section_title: Von Bock House / 2007 renovation and another mural
caption_attribution_description: Eesti: Tartu album. Ülikooli peahoone. This image on crowdsourcing geotagging platform Ajapaik MUIS: TKM TR 4038 H 31:5
context_page_description: Von Bock House is in Ülikooli Street in Tartu in Estonia. The building is owned by Tartu University, and is on the same street as the university's main building. Von Bock house has a mural of the university's main building on one of its walls.
context_section_description: Today the building is still owned by the university and in 2006 to 2007 the building was renovated under the managemement of Merje Müürisepp. Müürisepp had the facade restored to light yellow and the rest of the building painted a dark pink. A vast external mural was constructed on the side of the house. The mural was a reproduction of a lithograph by Louis Hoflinger who had lived in Tartu around 1860. The Art Museum of Estonia has a large collection of his work. The design was prepared by Maarja Roosi. The mural shows the main building of the University of Tartu exactly as it was recorded in 1860 by Hoflinger. It was constructed by students under the supervision of university staff.
  The mural was accompanied by an exhibition of photographs that was shown at the windows of the house in 2007. The photographs were arranged by Alan Madisson and featured notable academics from the university.
  The renovation of the house was completed at a cost of three million kroons in September 2007. Four years after the renovation the plasterwork of the building developed cracks which seemed to have been caused by subsistence.
  This subject of the mural, the University's main building, is further down Ülikooli Street and it is possible to view both the mural and the main building at the same time.
caption: The original 1860 coloured lithograph by Louis Höflinger
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