Cecil Krarup Andersen

Curriculum vitae

Cecil Krarup Andersen 

Cecil Krarup Andersen is associate professor and head of the Paintings Conservation Program at the Royal Danish Academy, Architecture, Design and Conservation. She graduated from the School of Conservation, Copenhagen in 2005 and received her PhD in the structure and mechanics of lined paintings in 2013 from the Royal Danish Academy in collaboration with Centre for Art Technological Studies (CATS) and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC (MCI).

Cecil has extensive experience as a painting conservator from both private practices and museums –including the Danish National Gallery and the National Museum of Denmark. This experience provides her with a solid basis for both teaching and research into paintings and their remedial and preventive conservation.

Cecil’s research focuses on painting’s technique, mechanical properties in paints and painting material including mechanical degradation related to climate control in collection and the effect of structural conservation of canvas paintings including wax-resin and glue-paste lining. In the Horizon2020 EU project CollectionCare she worked with computer modelling and simulation of degradation scenarios for canvas paintings.