Paintings Etched into the Plaster on a Wall in Litomysl

Two weeks ago when Matt and I were looking for a restaurant in Litomysl, the nearby town where we play soccer and I teach some of my lessons, we stumbled upon this wall on the side of a building on a street just off the town square.

I thought this was really cool how they would decorate the side of a random building like this, but when I asked a local about these, the story was much more interesting than I had imagined...

Apparently these were done a long long time ago by a famous artist/writer who used to live in the building itself. Over the years they were covered with layers of plaster or stucco and it wasn't until the 1960s that they were rediscovered.