1. self-employment as a sculptor and restorer

"Angel of the North" by Antony Gormley; Elsen sculpture

• Restoration

Production of some sculptures, care and restoration of the private art collection Opus Denkmalpflege GmbH Berlin

• Period: 05/2010 – 03/2015

Processed and managed objects:

Fairy tale fountain in Volkspark Friedrichshain - Nine sculptures to the Fairy tale of the Gerüder Grimm by the sculptor Ignatius Taschner; 1911 -1912, limestone

• Conservation & Restoration,

Charlottenburg Gate - Candelabra - Seahorse; 1907

• Reconstruction of the candelabra - seahorse:
• Newly developed sculptural concrete according to BAM

2. employee as restorer
at Fontana & Fontana AG. CH-8645 Jona / Schweiz AbtDepartment of Conservation and Restoration of Wall Painting, Stone Objects and Painted Furnishings

• Period 11/2006 – 02/2008

Monastery Santa Maria, San Michele in Teverina

• Restoration of the Trecento wall painting

Church of San Michele Acangelo, San Michele in Tavarina

• Restoration of the frescoes and the room shell with painted stucco altars

Catholic Church Freienbach, Switzerland

• Examination of the interior of the church
• Creation of the restoration concept
• Restoration of the baroque ceiling paintings
• Reconstruction of a section of painting in fresco technique
• Redesign of the interior of the church with lime glazes
• Execution of decorative paintings in place of the lost stucco ornamentation

3. independent. Activity as a freelance restorer

• Execution of works 09/2001 -12/2002

Interior restoration - Friderizian murals, former Friderizian barracks, built in 1765 according to designs by H.L. Manger, Lindenstrasse 42 in Potsdam 

• Creation of the restoration concept
• Restoration of the mural in dot retouching
• Reconstruction of a section of painting

Client: Prof. Klaus R. Kunzmann

Construction management: Michael Scheel Bauträger GmbH

State Monuments Office: Ms. Neuperdt

4. self-employment as a freelance sculptor

• Execution of works 01/1998 - 08/2000

Commissioned works for the WDR and the GUM studios

• Art figures/caricatures - Production as clay model - Polyester mold - Figure: "Cocolino* (latex figure), SF DRS Switzerland, 26 episodes
• Lothar Matthäus" (latex caricature), ARD - Soccer World Cup 98,15 episodes
• "Giovanni Trappatoni" (latex caricature), ARD - Soccer World Cup 98,15 episodes
• "Verona Feldbusch" (latex caricature), ARD - Soccer World Cup 98, 4 episodes

Projects for the motion pictures:

•  "Kismet", directed by Fatih Akin, actor's dummy, 180x50x30 cm, Cologne
• "The Great Bagarony," directed by Bernd Eichinger, Hands of Maria Callas, Dummy, Cologne

Projects for advertising film:

•  "Kick off", Telekom, "Verona Feldbusch" (latex caricature)
• "Planet Comedy", RTL, "Gerhard Schröder" (latex caricature)

Commissioned works for the stages of the city of Cologne:

•  "Helmut Kohl" (Polyester, 250x180x180 cm)
• „Husky“ (Polyester, 180x120x80 cm)
• „Kalesche“ (Polyester, 280x180x180 cm)

Project „Teletubbies“, Skywalker, London, England

• 09/2000 – 06/2001

5. employed as a restorer of cultural property from stone 

in the central workshops of the National Museums in Berlin, Prussian Cultural Heritage

Large magnificent chimney from the castle of Husum by Heidtrider 1613 -1617

• Execution of the works: 01/1989 - 07/1989

Edited objects:

Alabaster and limestone

• Prior condition: mechanical destruction, 150 fragments, original frame remains
• Measures: Cleaning, uncovering, additions, conservation work, reconstruction and reproduction of missing parts, retouching, chemical examination, molding of the original and additions.

Supervision: National Museums in Berlin, Dr. Betthausen

 The Exhibition of Art Treasures of Ancient Egypt

(Touring exhibition of the Egyptian Department/Bodymuseum to Tokyo - Kyoto -.

Hiroshima – Fukuoka – Sendai

• Execution of the entire work: 04/1988 - 01/1989
• Exhibition catalog: BG 055/84/21-52-440

Processed and managed objects:

Bust of the Sphinx of Queen Hatshepsut 18th dynasty; ca. 1470 BC, limestone 

• Pre-state: heavy soiling of original paint, extensive old gluing and fractures, addition in plaster, old dowelling, cracking
• For the development of a restoration concept: scientific investigation, new presentation
• Measures: Compress cleaning, conservation work, restoration work, socking, consolidation, putty, bonding, exhibition design.

Supervision: State Museums of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Prof. Dr. Priese

Conservation and restoration care of the permanent exhibition:

Classicist sculpture / Sculptures of the early 19th century in the Friedrichwerder church – Schinkel Museum

Execution of the entire work:

• Period: 02/1987 - 12/1988
• Exhibition catalog: BG 055/42/871-42-512450

Processed and managed objects:

Princesses group Luise and Friederike of Prussia by Johann Gottfried Schadow; around 1797 - original plaster 

• Pre-state: statically endangered, loosened adhesions, foxing, fractures, cracks
• Measures: Compress cleaning, reassembly of old fractures, attaching and gluing of existing fragments, small repairs and additions

Supervision: State Museums of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Dr. Betthausen

 Karl Friedrich Schinkel - statue from the porch of the Old Museum by Christian Friedrich Tieck and Hermann Wittig; around 1850 - completed in 1855, marble 

• Pre-state: endangered stability, heavy soiling, loosened adhesions
• Measures: Cleaning, removal of old additions, additions and bonding.

Supervision: State Museums of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Dr. Betthausen

Nine window parapets - reliefs of the main floor of the former Berlin Bauakademie according to designs by Karl Friedrich Schinkel; Berlin sculptor around 1835, terracotta (photo 4)

• Pre-state: heavy soiling, laser damage
• Measures: Cleaning and preservation

Supervision: State Museums of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Dr. Betthausen

Hermes - copy after a Greek statue of Hermes of the late 5th century B.C. Completed by Emil Wolf, marble 

• Pre-state: statically endangered, dissolved main compound (old fracture), not holding iron compounds
• Measures: Disassembly (approx. 60 individual parts), dowels and clamps, assembly, additions,

Supervision: State Museums of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Dr. Betthausen

Dionysus and Ariadne - Roman 4th century A.D., marble, additions around 1828 by Emil Wolf

• Pre-state: heavy soiling, statically endangered, loosened bondings, corroded iron dowels and clamps
• Measures: Disassembly and removal of all corroded metal joints, reassembly, additions and conservation, reconstruction of restoration history.

Supervision: State Museums of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Dr. Betthausen

 The world the Etruscan– Archaeological. Monuments

Exhibition of the Collection of Classical Antiquities, National Museums in Berlin 10/1988 – 12/1988

• Execution of works 10/1987 -12/1987
• Exhibition Catalog BO 055/44/88 3.0

 Edited objects:

10 Gable reliefs 3rd century B.C. Terracotta

• Pre-state: mechanical destruction, 40 main fragments, original frame remains;
• Measures: Conservation of the frame remains, reconstruction and reassembly of the fragments and fragments, securing on plastic plate, representation on carrier plate

Supervision: National Museums in Berlin, Mr. Kunze

4 sarcophagi, limestone 4th century B.C;

• Pre-state: heavy soiling, extensive old adhesions (fractures)
• Measures: Cleaning and preservation, additions and gluing

Supervision: National Museums in Berlin, Mr. Kunze

Wilhelm Lehmbruck Exhibition in the National Gallery of the National Museums in Berlin

•  Execution of the entire work: 10/1987 - 03/1988
• Exhibition catalog: ISBN 3923576-33-1

Edited objects:

Head of a thinker - Wilhelm Lehmbruck 1918 - stone casting

• Pre-state: Mechanical damage such as break-offs and punctures
• Measures: Cleaning and bonding

Supervision: State Museums of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Dr. Betthausen

Female torso by Wilhelm Lehmbruck 1910 - stone casting

• Pre-state: Loosened adhesions, mechanical damage such as break-offs and punctures
• Measures: Cleaning and bonding

Supervision: State Museums of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Dr. Betthausen

6. employed as plasterer

in the State Palaces and Gardens Potsdam - Sanssouci

 Edited objects:

Nauen and Brandenburg Gate in Potsdam, Church of the Savior in Sacrow

• Restoration and reconstruction of stucco
• Period: 07/1984 - 01/1987