Institute: University of Amsterdam

Country: The Netherlands

Link: www.uva.nl

Prof. Ella Hendriks is full Professor of Conservation and Restoration of Moveable Cultural Heritage at the Faculty of Humanities (Department of Arts & Culture) at the University of Amsterdam. Hendriks teaches in the Minor Conservation and Restoration, the Master’s and post-Master’s training program. She currently supervises eight PhD’s with international partners and within network consortium programs.

Hendriks is member of the Scientific Working Group of the Netherlands Institute for Conservation, Art and Science (NICAS) and co-organizes the biweekly NICAS colloquium. She is Academic Director for the Museum Objects as Evidence Bard Summer School (Amsterdam 2018), is Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Bank Giro Lottery Restoration Fund, advisor for the Van Gogh Online project (RKD/Van Gogh Museum) and several restoration projects in Dutch museums.

Prior to her current appointment, Hendriks was Senior Paintings Conservator at the Van Gogh Museum (1999-2016) and Chief Paintings Conservator at the Frans Hals Museum (1987-1999). From this museum background she seeks to connect academic study with latest developments in the field of cultural heritage care. Through lectures, publications and exhibitions she endeavors to promote knowledge about the work of conservators among a broad public.

In July 2021 Hendriks recorded a lecture on ‘The legacy of Jan Cornelis Traas: wax-resin lining in Van Gogh paintings in the family collection’ especially for the masterclass. The lecture is available through this subpage on our website: Lecture 14: July 2021 – Ella Hendriks.

Corresponding literature is available through: Literature – History of wax-resin linings