Our team of professionals
Mgr. David Frank
Conservator
born 1968
After graduating in Painting Conservation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1994) and internships at the Royal Academy of Arts Ghent, Belgium and the Courtauld Institute of Art and Technology, London, he worked for several years as a professor’s assistant at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. During his practice he carried out conservation of many paintings from the Collection of Modern Art of the National Gallery in Prague, regional galleries and private collections. He participated in a number of Czech and international conservation projects in Scotland, Germany and Denmark. Between 2016 and 2019 he worked at the National Gallery in Prague as a specialist for authentication of paintings.
He continues working as a paintings and paper conservator with focus on authenticity of art within Atelier Frank from 1994 to the present.
Trinity Art Research brings together restorers, art historians and material research specialists to make highly qualified assessments of the authenticity of works of art. We believe that these three disciplines and their interconnection within the field of art studies provide guidance for questionable cases of authorship, provenance and authenticity.
Complex cases of authenticity require thorough research by means of archival study, a range of technical photography, material analysis and also comparisons of the painter’s practices. The result of our work is a full report concluding our expert opinions. The singular components of this report determine the overall construction of the painting and its creation within the timeline of the artist’s work.
The high qualification of each of our professionals guarantees perfect insight into individual specializations, while interdisciplinary cooperation also guarantees reliable identification of a specific work of art.
Contacts
TAR 22 – Trinity Art Research, z. ú.
Prague
Czech Republic
Reg. No.: 17391563