Colour on Trial Concerns about the Quality of Artists’ Pigments

Kathrin Kinseher is the head of the Painting Materials and Painting Techniques Workshop at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. There, she shares her knowledge of traditional and contemporary painting materials and methods by giving lectures and practical workshops, and providing technical advice on art students‘ projects. Kathrin studied conservation and restoration of paintings and painted wooden sculptures at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, graduating in 1990. She obtained a PhD from the Technical University of Munich, writing her thesis on the controversy about painting materials in Munich during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.