559Claude Huotcarries on a two-generation tradition of cabinetmaking, having practiced under his
father, Georges Huot, whom he succeeded as director of his studio in 1962, and René Perche. An
avid personal interest in airplanes and gliders has allowed him to become better acquainted with
various uses of wood and its mechanical behavior, from the standpoints of both piloting and con-
serving aircraft made of wood and canvas.
Daniel Jaunardis a cabinetmaker and restorer of support frames for easel painting. He has previ-
ously worked with René Perche at the Atelier Claude Huot and is licensed by the Service de
Restauration des Musées de France.
Peter Kleingraduated with a degree in wood technology from the University of Hamburg in
1973 and received a doctoral degree, with a specialty in wood science, from the same university in
- From 1976 to 1978 he served on the staffof the university’s Department of Wood Biology,
and from 1979 to 1981 he was a visiting scientist at the Gemäldegalerie Berlin-Dahlem. Since 1981
he has served on the staffof the University of Hamburg’s Department of Wood Biology. His
research activities concentrate on wood biology and technology, wood conservation and preserva-
tion, and dendrochronology.
Frédéric J. M. Lebasstudied at the Institut Suisse pour l’Etude de l’Art in Zurich; he later served
as paintings and sculpture restoration assistant to Th. Brachert at the Germanisches National
Museum, Nuremberg, and held a one-year fellowship to the Institut Royal du Patrimoine
Artistique de Bruxelles. Since 1979 he has served as restorer of paintings and sculpture at the
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg.
Patrick Mandronis a graduate of the Institut Français de Restauration des Oeuvres d’Art. A cabi-
netmaker and restorer of support frames for easel painting, he teaches at the Sorbonne, Université
de Paris I, in the Maîtrise des Sciences et Techniques de la Conservation des Biens Culturels. He is
licensed by the Service de Restauration des Musées de France.
Raymond Marchanthas a background in design engineering, carpentry, cabinetmaking, and fur-
niture restoration. He has also worked for John Bull in London as a technician restoring metal
sculpture. In 1989 he joined Simon Bobak in association with the Hamilton Kerr Institute (HKI),
Cambridge, England. At the London studio of the HKI, he works on the structural conservation
of panel paintings, and at the HKI in Whittlesford, Cambridge, he advises on the structural con-
servation of panel paintings.
Giovanni Marussich,who was born in Croatia, embarked on his professional life as a wood-
worker in 1948, and he immigrated to Florence in 1956. From 1962 to 1983 he was a wood con-
servator for panel paintings at the Fortezza da Basso, part of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure e
Laboratori di Restauro (formerly the Soprintendenza alle Gallerie) in Florence. Since then he has
done conservation on panel paintings for various institutions and has taught a course on wood
conservation at the Museo de Arte de Catalunya in Barcelona. He has also been a consultant to
the J. Paul Getty Museum. He is presently involved in a restoration campaign for war-ravaged
paintings in the former Yugoslavia.
Ian McClurestudied English literature at Bristol University and art history at Edinburgh. He
became head of paintings conservation at Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum in 1978. In 1982 he
was named assistant to the director at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, where he became director in
- He has written on various specific conservation projects and techniques, as well as on the
history ofconservation.
Marion Mecklenburgholds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in structural engineering from the
University of Maryland. He has worked for twenty years as a paintings conservator in the United
States. In 1987 he joined the Conservation Analytical Laboratory of the Smithsonian Institution,
where he is a senior research scientist and where for several years he was the assistant director for
conservation research. He has also been an adjunct professor in the Department of Conservation
at the University of Delaware, an assistant professor and director of the Fracture Mechanics
Laboratory at the University of Maryland, and coordinator of the graduate program for material
science at the Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include the mechanics of materials
and the effects of the environment on the mechanical properties ofmaterials.