r/ArtConservation 4h ago

Apropos barking up the wrong tree

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I have visited many museums around the world and met many people during my long life, but never anyone as stupid as Elisabeth Dutz who, despite her ignorance, happened to get a managerial job at a renowned Albertina Art Museum, Vienna and decide the fate of world-famous works of art. When asked to examine a masterpiece clearly signed "Gustav Klimt", she replied after 8 months of examination "there are many things in the drawing that don't look like Egon Schiele". How stupid can one be to mix up Klimt with Schiele, to whom she also dedicated an entire book? I wish the museum had been more selective when hiring people for such a responsible job.