Binding media play a central role in this matter. This is why the Doerner Institut is presently concerned with the identification of the binding media used on reverse glass paintings. Their identification is usually only possible on the smallest of samples, which were taken during conservation and restoration measures. Preliminary results from reverse glass paintings of the eighteenth-century are found in the 2003 exhibition catalogue with the title …welche zuweilen Kunstwerth haben. Hinterglasmalerei in Südbayern im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert of the Schloßmuseum in Murnau.
The Doerner Institut is presently collaborating with Dr. Oliver Hahn of the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) Berlin, as well with the Munich based conservators Simone Bretz and Hans Jörg Ranz, on a research project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) on reverse glass paintings from Burgundy, Flanders and the Lower Rhine dated within the period of 1330 and 1550. Dr. Carola Hagnau (Museum Schnütgen, Cologne) is responsible for the art historical research in this project.
