Restorers 21st century
Renata Boero is an Italian artist and restorer.
After completing her liberal arts education in Switzerland, she worked at the Palazzo Rosso Museum in Genoa. It was during the restoration of old tapestry canvases that Boero began to experiment with the use of natural substances in painting. She uses plant elements in her artworks and installations.
Michel Favre is a Swiss painter and sculptor living and working in Martigny.
Michel trained as a marble sculptor from a young age: learning to work with materials, honing his craft and technical skills, and practicing restoration. In 1972 he opened his atelier in Martigny and until 1980 he created almost exclusively stone sculptures, but since the 1990s he has incorporated bronze, glass and other materials into his work. Since 1996 he has also created video installations, combining plastic arts, film, photography and new media. Michel Favre travels extensively and is passionate about archaeology.
The main motif of the sculptor's works is the fragile human being in a looming world of machines and technology. In his three-dimensional images, people are most often tiny and ant-like, trying to change something in the huge world around them.
Michel Favre has been a member of VISARTE (Society of Swiss Artists, Sculptors, Architects) since 1983 and has been active in numerous exhibitions around the world.
Tom Hartwig is an Austrian artist and restorer.
He trained as an art restorer in Salzburg, where he also met famous artists. Since 1974 he has worked in Germany, including as an art restorer, but he has become increasingly fascinated by painting.
Tom Hartwig's world is colorful and strange; he creates powerful, large-format works, which he often frames as diptychs or triptychs. He is fascinated by the processes of nature and its power, especially "creative destruction. A volcanic eruption preparing the earth for a new life, a planetary explosion resulting in the formation of thousands of stars are the main subjects of the artist.
Konrad Honold was a painter, restorer, graphic artist, and heraldist. He began his artistic career at a young age, apprenticing in a painting workshop in Ravensburg. He furthered his training at Toni Kirchmayr's art school in Innsbruck and the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin. Honold settled in Schruns, Austria, where he worked as a painter and restorer. His works included panel paintings and designs for various mural techniques, focusing mainly on sacred art. He also contributed to the preservation and restoration of church spaces, continuing the tradition of church painting. Honold was involved in heraldry, creating coat of arms for the Vorarlberg State Government and various municipalities in the region. He was an active member of the Montafon Heritage Association and played a crucial role in establishing the Montafon Heritage Museum in its current location.
Andrzej Irzykowski is a Polish painter, sculptor and restorer living and working in Germany.
Andrzej studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk after an apprenticeship as a mason in conservation workshops. As a freelance artist, Andrzej Irzykowski has been living and working in Germany for over 30 years.
The fusion of figurative and abstract forms has become a hallmark of Andrzej Irzykowski's work. One of his most recent exhibitions was entitled "Heads" - anthropomorphic sculptures in realist, surrealist and abstract expression. Irzykowski has exhibited his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad and has received many prizes and awards.
Nida Kadhim is an Iraqi sculptor, noted for producing a number of monumental works for Baghdad's city centre, some of which are still standing, while others were demolished or looted following the 2003 Iraqi invasion. Kadhim received his formal art education at Baghdad's Academy of Fine Arts in the 1950s. Actively involved in the Iraqi arts community, he became a founding member of the art group known as Al-Mujadidin (The Innovationists). His sculptures focus on grandiose busts and statues of leading figures taken from Iraq's history, or are based on other themes the artist considers worthy. His most well-known sculpture, which is still standing, is the Arab Woman in Zawra Park, Baghdad. It depicts an Arab woman holding a bouquet of flowers out to the new generation of Iraqis who are seeking a better future.
Paolo Salvati was an Italian expressionist painter and restorer.
After training as a surveying engineer, Salvati developed a passion for painting, particularly expressionism. He worked with pastels and tempera, did oil painting, and painted in acrylics. His works include landscape miniatures, seascapes, still lifes and portraits. Salvati's works are characterized by life-affirming, saturated colors.
Salvati also designed and restored stringed instruments.
Ernst Steinacker is a German sculptor and restorer.
He was educated at the Stuttgart State Academy of Fine Arts and created his own works in bronze, stone and wood.
For five years, Steinacker restored Spielberg Castle on his own and turned it into a museum and cultural center. His workshop was also located there.
Klaus von Woyski was a German painter, graphic artist and restorer.
Von Woyski joined the Verband Bildender Künstler Kassel (Association of Visual Artists Kassel) and turned to non-objective painting at this time, numerous participations in exhibitions followed.
Since the entire family moved to Greece in 1970, Klaus von Woyski's painting style changed back to realism due to the new impressions of the landscape and the Greek light.