Edvard Munch’s painting The Human Mountain is usually on display in the Munch Museum’s lecture hall. The painting now requires conservation work. A detailed condition report will be drawn up in May 2006, and the conservation project will be carried out in three phases:
- Preparatory work
- The painting will be taken down from the wall, and a condition report, documentation and proposal for treatment will be drawn up.
- Conservation work will be carried out.
Edvard Munch, Towards the Light (The Human Mountain), in the Munch Museum lecture hall
The conservation of the painting will be carried out by the Conservation Studio, which is part of The City of Oslo’s Agency for Cultural Affairs and Sport Facilities. Ph.D. Biljana Topalova-Casadiego will be in charge of the conservation project. The other members of staff who are taking part in the project are Ingrid Grytdahl Eilertsen, Erika Sandbakken and Jin Ferrer. (Painting Conservators)
The conservation project is complicated, and many others will be involved. Each will bring a different kind of expertise to the project, and their input will be crucial to the outcome of the conservation process. This web presentation aims to offer insight into the tasks carried out by those working “backstage” – their work is crucial to the success of the project. Using both text and images, the web presentation will highlight the working practices of all those involved, the painting conservators, the educational staff of the Museum, the photographer, the curator, the technical and management staff – their work is invaluable.
In addition to presenting the different departments/participants, and the work they are engaged on, the web pages will present the entire conservation project from beginning to end. We hope this will be of interest to those with specialist knowledge of art and conservation, as well as the general public. It is not often one has the opportunity to look at what goes on backstage, and conservation is probably one of the areas that very few have insight into. What does the work of a painting conservator entail? Which methods are used to preserve a painting for the future?
Read more about the motif "The Human Mountain"
A description of the condition of the painting and the conservation treatment, will be added to the web page presentation once an examination of the painting has been carried out.
Phase 2: Investigating the condition of the painting.
Phase 2: Investigating the condition of the painting. |
