Klesch Collection Scholarship
April 25 2024
Picture: Klesch Collection
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Klesch Collection, a private collection of art assembled by A. Gary and Dr. Anita Klesch, are accepting applications for the 2024–2025 Klesch Collection Scholarship, which is available for graduate studies in Baroque and Renaissance painting.
According to the website:
These scholarships have supported the global studies of graduate students (MA, MPhil, or PhD level), with the aim of contributing to their academic and professional development. Scholarship recipients are chosen based on merit and quality of their application.
Who can apply?
Any graduate student who has been accepted into a full-time Art History MA, MPhil or PhD course of study worldwide, beginning the next academic year. PhD students are welcome to apply for any year in their programme. Applications will be considered from students who will focus/are focusing their studies on European and British painting of the Renaissance and Baroque periods (c. 1400–1700).
What does the Klesch Collection Scholarship offer?
- A grant towards the yearly cost of the university fees.
- A paid internship opportunity at the collection for a minimum of 1 month.
Applications must be submitted by 20th June 2024.
Good luck if you're applying!
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Whilst looking for a photo to add to this post, I stumbled across this outstanding Van Dyck of Charles II when Prince of Wales (pictured), a painting which was presumably acquired by the collection when it appeared at Sotheby's back in 2018. In 2018 the work had come straight from a private collection and was covered in a very thick yellowed varnish which made the surface rather hard to read. Click the link above to see the work in its present restored state, the transformation has been magnificent by the looks of it. Although Van Dyck's brush was very smooth in this late period, these paintings have a distinctive magic and aura about them which is wonderful in their own right I think.
