Fellowship at National Gallery of Denmark

Samuel H. Kress Conservation Fellowship
Paintings Conservation
National Gallery of Denmark

The National Gallery of Denmark is offering a Samuel H. Kress
Conservation Fellowship, administered by the Foundation of the
American Institute of Conservation, for the academic year 2012-2013.
The fellowship will comprise the conservation and research of five
flower paintings by Elias van den Broeck (Antwerp 1649/50 -
Amsterdam 1708). Fellowships are limited to graduates of graduate
conservation programs in the U.S. and Canada, or to U.S. citizens
graduating from graduate-level conservation programs abroad. Fellows
should have completed a masters-level degree in conservation prior
to beginning the Fellowship.

In conjunction with the planning of a large Flower Exhibition in our
gallery in 2013 a team of conservators, scientists and art
historians are carrying through a research project on the museum's
holdings of Baroque floral paintings. Many of these artworks have
not previously been restored, and have never been submitted to
technical and art historical research. The Conservation Fellow will
be part of this team of conservators and researchers, and will have
the opportunity to carry through individual research on a hitherto
untouched material from the gallery's rich collection of
17th-century artworks.

The Fellow will work in the Conservation Department in close
collaboration with Centre for Art Technological Studies and
Conservation, CATS, a newly founded centre of research in technical
art history within our gallery. The Conservation Department
currently includes 6 painting conservators, 5 paper conservators, 1
sculpture conservator, 1 PhD student in paintings conservation and 3
international interns.

During the fellowship period we anticipate that research will not
only include paintings from the National Gallery of Denmark but that
the successful applicant would use a travel allowance to examine
pictures that relate to the area of research in other European
institutions relevant for the project.

Please submit the following materials in English: A motivation
letter (maximum 1 page, 1500 characters) in which the applicant
explains his/her academic and personal reasons for applying for the
fellowship, copies of undergraduate and graduate courses of academic
study, a brief curriculum vitae with biographical information
(including language skills, and any publications), current and
permanent address, and telephone numbers; a copy of the student's
previous academic record (courses) and diplomas; two (2) letters of
recommendation from conservation professionals familiar with the
candidate's work and including the referee's full address and
forwarded by separate e-mail to the address below. Accepted
applicants must provide a certificate of good conduct issued by the
local police authorities.

Internships/fellowships are given without regard to age, sex,
nationality, or race.

Applications must be received by June 11, 2012.

Applications should be sent electronically as PDF attachments to
cats-cons<-at->smk<.>dk

For further information on the fellowship project please contact:

    Dr. Jorgen Wadum
    Keeper of Conservation and Director CATS
    Statens Museum for Kunst / National Gallery of Denmark
    Solvgade 48-50
    1307 Copenhagen K
    Denmark

    +45 25597808
    +45 33748450
    j.wadum<-at->smk<.>dk


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