Mechthild Flury-Lemberg
Mechthild Flury-Lemberg (born February 21, 1929 in Hamburg ) is a Swiss textile restorer.
Life
After studying textile design in Hamburg and art history in Kiel and Munich , she began a dissertation . She then worked as a textile restorer at the Bavarian National Museum and the Historical Museum in Bern . She has lived in Switzerland since 1957.
In 1963 she moved to the Abegg Foundation in Riggisberg to set up a specialist department for textile preservation. During her 30 years in Riggisberg, textile restoration gained a worldwide reputation. In 1994 she ended her position as head of the textile department and went into retirement.
In 2001/02 she carried out conservation work on the Turin Shroud , during which she removed medieval patches and examined the age of the relic. As a recognized specialist, she led u. a. Securing work on historical textiles from Francis of Assisi , Antonius of Padua , Sigismondo Malatesta and King Rudolf of Bohemia .
Flury-Lemberg is the author of several specialist publications on textile preservation. She lives in Bern .
Honors
- Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (August 20, 1987)
- Honorary doctorate from the Philosophical-Historical Faculty of the University of Bern (1989) for her work in the field of textile research
- Honorary citizenship of the city of Zittau (2004), for their work to save the Great Zittau Lent Cloth
Works
- Textile Conservation and Research. A Documentation of the Textile Department on the Occasion of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Abegg Foundation . Riggisberg: Abegg Foundation, 1988. ISBN 3-905014-02-5 .
- Sindone 2002: l'intervento conservativo - preservation - conservation , Torino: ODPF, 2003. ISBN 978-8888441085 (Italian, English and German parallel text).
- Five decades of testile preservation. Memories of the beginning . Riggisberg: Abegg Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-3-905014-41-9 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Mechthild Flury-Lemberg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Mechthild Flury-Lember Inetrview ( Memento from April 22, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- Shroud Press Conference (1997)
- WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information from the Federal President's Office
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Flury-Lemberg, Mechthild |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss textile restorer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |