About me
Gerrit Albertson is an Associate Paintings Conservator at The Art Institute of Chicago. Previously, he was an Associate Conservator of Paintings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and a fellow in paintings conservation at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gerrit earned his Master of Science and Certificate in Conservation from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation, and he completed a 12-month internship at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam as his final year of graduate study. His research focuses on the materials and techniques found in early modern European paintings and the changes that effect how viewers perceive these works today.
