11th ENCATC Meeting on Evaluation

René is adjunct director at Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg (SRAL). He studied Art History and Archaeology at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen and specialized in 16th century panel painting. From 1990 until 1995 he studied paintings conservation at the post academic Education Program for the Conservation of Paintings and Painted Objects at Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg in Maastricht, under auspices of the Ministry of OCW. Internships involved the Mauritshuis The Hague, Rijksmuseum Twenthe Enschede and the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

Within the framework of the NWO MOLART project (Molecular ageing of painted works of art), he worked at SRAL from 1995 – 1999: both as research-conservator and manager of the conservation education program. In 1999 he became head of education at SRAL, managing the study program, teaching, organizing international conservation courses and international summer courses focusing on historic painting techniques.

Hoppenbrouwers has been active in several international conservation organizations:  he was vice chair of ENCoRE (European Network of Conservation-Restoration Education) and assistant working group co-ordinator of the Working Group Education and Training in Conservation of ICOM-CC (Conservation Committee of the International Council of Museums).

He initiated the Indian Conservation Fellowship Program, financed by the Andrew. W Mellon Foundation. This program focuses on the education and training of young Indian conservators in The Netherlands and the U.S.