Complex Art Conservation and Preservation Problems

Paul-Bernhard Eipper graduated as a conservator from the University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany. He was head of conservation at the August Deusser Museum, Bad Zurzach, Switzerland, and at the Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria. He was a publicly appointed expert at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Germany. He received his PhD from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Witten-Herdecke, Germany. He was President of IIC Austria (The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works) and a member of the extended board of the Museumsbund Österreich, and is currently a member of the board of the Egon Schiele Society, Vienna. He is a Fellow by Election of the Learned Society of the IIC, London. He is a lecturer at the Institute of Art History, Karl Franzens University, Graz and as in appointed Professor of Restoration of Modern and Contemporary Painting at the University of Fine Arts and Design, Laboratory of Restoration of Modern and Contemporary Painting, Bratislava, Slovakia. He is the author of 300 publications and 14 books, and is editor of 11 books, including seven editions of the “Handbook of Surface Cleaning”.