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FIGAROHAUS
Mozarthaus Vienna is used to a large extent as an exhibition/museum area and event venue. The dwellings in the storeys above the 3rd floor are occupied by the building’s inhabitants, who use the building in the way that it was originally intended. The exhibition and presentation areas are on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors, the design of Mozart’s apartment on the 1st floor being deliberately distinct from the rest of the exhibition.
Mozart’s apartment in the Figarohaus was described by his father as “nice quarters with seemly decorations”. Indeed, the accommodation on all floors was unusually elegantly decorated for a bourgeois house, with stucco ceilings and mural paintings; the exposed mural gives an idea of this. Up to 40 superimposed layers of paint covering a period of around 250 years can be found in the rooms. The exposed version with the division of the walls by means of frames and fields (here made of “painted stone”) has 12 older layers underneath, some of which have survived only in part, and is a particularly well preserved example of its type. Although it dates from the early 19th century, it is based on decorations that existed before and during Mozart’s time. Some of the panels contained not only imitation stone but also silk wallpaper with flowers or stripes as decorative elements.
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