Baumgartner Restoration


Baumgartner Fine Art Restoration, commonly known as Baumgartner Restoration, is a Chicago-based art conservation studio. The business is notable for operating a successful YouTube channel of the same name, which as accrued 1.23 million subscribers as of April 2020.

Description

The studio was established in 1978 in Chicago by R. Agass Baumgartner. His son Julian took over the running of the studio in 2011 following Agass' passing, aged 63. In 2016 the conservancy started a YouTube channel - also called Baumgartner Restoration - which quickly grew in popularity. On the channel Julian posts videos of himself restoring various works of art. These videos have been well received and have accrued media coverage about the conservancies' various restoration projects. A January 2019 Mashable named Baumgartner as the most popular art conservationist on YouTube and credited Julian with popularizing the genre of videos.
Baumgartner Restoration is a member of the American Institute for Conservation.