Professional Training and Experience

I am a freelance gilder and restorer for sculptures and polychrome wooden objects in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin. I restore and conserve among other things the following objects and works of art:

Panel paintings
Polychromed ceiling panels, wall panels and sculpture from the 14th to the 19th centuries
Church Ornaments
Icons
Polychrome picture frames and furniture from the 17th to the 20th centuries carved and polychromed small objects.

As a gilder I restore and reconstruct in accordance with examination results and model requirements

Picture frames
Organ fronts
Altars
Church paintings and plastic ornamentation
Exterior Gilding
Interior decoration

In addition I create modern and antique style handcrafted picture frames for paintings and mirror frames from different epochs and I have participated as a gilder in several artistic projects.

I trained as a gilder from 1985- 1988 in two highly regarded Hamburg training establishments. After returning to Berlin I underwent approximately 18 months of practical training in a wellknown private restoration workshop for paintings and polychrome sculptures in Charlottenburg, Berlin. From 1989 until 1991 I acquired an additional 18 months practical experience in the workshop of the Museumverbund Lüchow-Dannenberg.

My clients and past projects include:

Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin
Stiftung Pressischer Schlösser und Gärten: decoration of the Castles of Bellevue, Charlottenburg, Sanssouci, Caputh, Königs Wüsterhausen, Oranienburg, Rheinsberg, Bildergalerie Potsdam, Mamorpalais Potsdam
Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin
Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Bundespräsidialamt
Bundeskanzleramt
Deutscher Bundestag
Magdeburger Dom
Evangelische Kirche Berlin-Brandenburg
Katholische Kirche Berlin
Restorers
Private Persons

In addition I can provide the following services:

Exposure
Examinations of polychrome painting
Documentations
Condition Reports and Damage Assessments