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