ZAKHEIM

Nathan Zakheim trained in rural California by parents, both fresco muralists from childhood.  He began Fresco Conservation in 1967 by using innovative techniques to remove two frescoes painted by Bernard Zakheim from the University of California Medical Center San Francisco.

Since that time, Nathan has conserved and/or removed and relocated more than fifty high profile frescoes, and is generally considered an authority on fresco conservation. In addition to Fresco, Nathan has developed and deployed more than a dozen innovative state-of-the-art methods for the conservation of large outdoor works of art, as well as innovative techniques for the conservation of oil paintings, sculpture, objects, etc.

In 1995, he was selected in a state-wide competition to oversee the Historic Reconstruction of the House of Hospitality, in Balboa Park - San Diego, where he oversaw the salvage, conservation and re-installation of 1800 categories of decorative and artistic architectural elements of that twenty-million-dollar Historic Reconstruction project.  (That was the the first time a National Monument was completely disassembled and reconstructed in the history of the Department of the Interior).

Other prominent projects include:  The conservation of the Arthur Mathews murals in the California State Capital Building, Orozco's fresco of Prometheus at Pomona College, Diego Rivera's fresco in the City Club - San Francisco, various murals in the Coit Tower San Francisco, Stacco removal and re-location of four large Ramos Martinez frescoes from various California sites, as well as conservation of easel paintings by Warhol, Diebenkorn, Chagal, Fietelson, Gorky, Miro, Charles M. Russell, Remington, etc. Graduate of San Francisco State University, Graduate work in Vedic Studies, apprenticeship with prominent conservators. Board member of Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles, Columnist in MCLA magazine under the title "The Mural Doctor" Member: Western Association of Art Conservators (WAAC) and American Institute for Conservation of Artistic and Historic Works. (AIC)

RELATED INFORMATION:

Fresco Painting: Contemporary Tradition

Decorative Finish Seminars

Guest Speakers - Main Page