A death

The Danish paintings conservator Steen Bjarnhof, among other things
former chief conservator at various museums in Denmark, former
Rector and head of department at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine
Arts, the School of Conservation, IIC-fellow, former ICOM-CC
vice-chair and Honorary Member of ICOM-CC, passed away while on
holiday in France September 27, 1997, by a stroke, 72 years old.

Bjarnhof served the conservation profession for more than fifty
years, and had an immense influence on the positive status of
conservation today in Denmark. He created highly professional
conservation departments in various Danish museums (including the
Royal Danish Museum of Fine Arts), founded the academic training
program, the School of Conservation in Denmark, and over the years
established a network of international contacts between the
conservation profession in Denmark and abroad, for example by
leading the Nordic Rescue Team after the flood in Florence in 1966,
by several international conservation projects and by involvement in
IIC and ICOM-CC. Bjarnhof's famed organizational talent was
institutional for a large number of projects and achievements and he
will be duly missed, also as a teacher for nearly all Danish
paintings conservators.

Mikkel Scharff
Head of Dept., the School of Conservation, Denmark

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                  Conservation DistList Instance 11:36
                Distributed: Wednesday, October 15, 1997
                       Message Id: cdl-11-36-001
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