Helmut Kortan

Helmut Erhard Kortan (* 1928 in Linz ) is an Austrian restorer and university professor .

From 1965 to 1986 he taught at the Master School for Conservation and Technology at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . Together with Otto Wächter , he introduced an additional subject for paper restoration and established additional teaching positions for other subjects. He has been a member of the MAERZ artists' association since 1953 .

Publications

• Johann Michael Prunner . A Baroque architect from Linz , dissertation, University of Innsbruck , 1951, 130 sheets
• A newly discovered Gothic Vesper picture in: Chorherrenstift Klosterneuburg (ed.), Yearbook of Klosterneuburg Monastery 1961, Klosterneuburg 1961, pages 171 to 175
• Scientific methods of examination on art monuments, in particular the X-ray examination. From the work of the Stadtmuseum, in: Art Yearbook of the City of Linz 1965, Linz, 1965
• To investigate the painting technique on the Romanesque frescoes in the bell house of the collegiate church in Lambach , in: Festschrift for Otto Ritter von Lutterotti , Innsbruck, 1973, pp. 235 to 250
• Interim report on the restoration of the early baroque altars in Feldkirch-Levis , Vorarlberg, in: Restauratorenblätter, Vienna 1973, pp. 57 to 63
• The master school for conservation and technology at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and its predecessors since Metternich , in: Restauratorenblätter, Volume 7, Vienna 1984, pp 35 to 45
• On the training of the restorer , in: Professional Association of Fine Artists Austria , Salvation of Works of Art, 1973, pp. 29 to 34

literature

• Manfred Koller and Ulrike Knall (editors): Prof. Dr. Helmut Kortan 80 years in: Historical textiles - Conservation, landfilling, exhibition, Restauratorenblätter 27, Klosterneuburg 2007/2008, p 168