proposal part b - The Bernstein Project

CIP-ICT PSP Call 4 26
Pilot B
[Imperialle]
museum’s digital productions integrate digital communication, videos and games into the galleries of the
museum, and are a central part of the museum’s art education and promotion.
Role in the project: Digitisation of 528 unique masterpieces from the Rubens Cantoor (ca. 1630) and 140
equally exceptional works by Maerten van Heemskerck (c. 1520-1570), all drawn on paper. Additional digital
radiography of the paper structure, watermarks, and paper identification including metadata will be applied.
SMK will be the leader of WP6: Monitoring and testing.
Homepage: http://www.smk.dk
Key personnel:
Jørgen Wadum
• trained as a flower painter and as a painting conservator, studies in Art history (PhD)
• Keeper of Conservation at the National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
• since the 1980s he has specialised in the painting techniques of 16 th - and 17 th -century Dutch and
Flemish artists.
• has published and lectured extensively internationally on a multitude of subjects related to this and
other issues of importance to the understanding and keeping of our cultural heritage
• holds positions in several international organisations and committees
Chris Fischer
• Studies in Art history (PhD)
• worked many years as Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Denmark
• senior researcher
• Head of Centre for Advanced Studies in Master Drawings at the National Gallery of Denmark and
lecturer at the University of Copenhagen
• arranged and participated in a number of exhibitions here as well as in some of the world’s leading
museums, including the Uffizi, the Pitti Gallery and the Louvre, and publishes extensively in
international periodicals and exhibition catalogues
Key expertise in Italian drawings
Hanne Kolind Poulsen
• senior researcher (PhD)
• since 2006 curator in the Department of Graphic Art at the National Gallery of Denmark
• specialist on 16 th -century art
• associate research professor at Copenhagen University
• arranged a number of exhibitions at the National Gallery of Denmark and at other Danish museums
Anja Scocozza
• graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Conservation in 1992
• since 2002, employed at the National Gallery of Denmark.
• an expert in restoration and conservation of old master drawings, graphic art and manuscripts;
collection examination and consultancy at local museums in Denmark
Experience in digitalization of prints and drawings and in project management
Jakob Skou-Hansen
• studies in Art History at the University of Århus and the Sorbonne
• educated as a photographer
• since 2001, head photographer at the National Gallery of Denmark