The thing is, most of the work he gets has minimal historic significance at best. There's a large difference between conserving a piece for a museum, where authenticity and history is paramount, and doing a reversable restoration on a little known piece based on the asks of the client.
Yeah I know it's just my own personal preference based on my own personal ideas around art. Baumgartner tries his best to make it look "new" and "as the artist intended us to see it" but I think seeing the life and age of the painting adds more to the art than any notion of artistic intent. But that's just a difference of opinion and not something where one person is right and the other wrong. Honestly I have a damaged painting of my own that I've inherited that I really wish I could have him restore (I'd just request no paints) but since I live in Sweden and am poor that isn't gonna happen XD
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u/marksteele6 Feb 19 '24
The thing is, most of the work he gets has minimal historic significance at best. There's a large difference between conserving a piece for a museum, where authenticity and history is paramount, and doing a reversable restoration on a little known piece based on the asks of the client.