New professor for Conservation–Restoration as of 1.10.: Monika Kammer

Monika Kammer was born and raised in Berlin. The desire to work professionally with art and cultural heritage arose early. Courses at art schools in Berlin, own painting and drawing experiences and the creative experiments of materials consolidated the interest.

After an apprenticeship as a carpenter and internships in restoration workshops at the Museum für Völkerkunde (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden) and the Landesamt für Denkmalpflege, she studied from 2002-2007 Art Technology, Preservation and Restoration of Artistic and Cultural Assets at the HfBK Dresden. After working as a freelance conservator for three years, she was employed there as a research associate in the teaching area of Art Technology, Radiation Examination and Photography since 2011. During this time, she participated in various research and cooperation projects with a focus on art technology. For example, on the technological research of the large-format paintings from the workshop of Jacques Jordaens at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Kassel or the painting technique of the Dresden painter Oskar Zwintscher at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden - Albertinum. A special focus of her teaching at the HfBK Dresden was the supervision of practical studies in painting techniques and experimental reconstructions. The results of these art technology projects, often in cooperation with museums, were able to enrich exhibitions there and conveyed art technology topics to museum visitors. Examples include the studies on the production of the so-called Wormser Tafeln from the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, the reconstruction of a Reverse Painting on Glass from the Museum - Naturalienkabinett Waldenburg, or the paint tests according to historical recipes to produce darkness and black in 19th century paintings as part of the exhibition "Oskar Zwintscher und die Malerei um 1900" (Albertinum Dresden).

From the work in the field of art technology and photography arose the interest to deal with historical X-radiographs of paintings from the estate of the artist, paint technician and restorer Kurt Wehlte. The doctoral theses on Kurt Wehlte and the development of art-scientific radiography was started in 2013 and published as an online publication in 2022.

Since 2015, she was active as the Women's representative of the HfBK Dresden and in this capacity involved in the successful participation of the HfBK Dresden at the Professorinnenprogramm III (Promotion of female professors) and the audit as a family-friendly university.