FAQs

Authorship

Clients are often interested in terms relating to authenticity. Art professionals refer to these descriptors when making an attribution.

Artist - the work is made by the artist (usually no unqualified statement is made as to the authorship is made or intended).

Attributed to - a work in the period and in the style of the artist, may be the work of the artist, in whole or in part, but less certainty of authorship than in the preceding category.

Studio of - a work by an unknown hand in the artist's studio.

Circle of - a work of the period of the artist and closely related to the artist's style.

Style of - a work by a pupil or follower of the artist in his lifetime or shortly thereafter.

Manner of - a work in the style of the artist, possibly of a later date.

After - a copy of the known work by the artist.

Caring For Your Collections

Library of Congress: Preservation

American Institute for Conservation

of Historic & Artistic Works

Conservation OnLine (CoOL)

The name MÖBIUS: art conservation

is in memory of August Möbius, a mathematician from Leipzig, Germany,

who specialized in geometry and invented the Möbius strip in 1858. The image at right comes from the famous artist, M. C.. Eshcer, who delighted in drawing visual paradoxes. It is a rectilinear interpretation of the famous curvilinear Möbius strip.

It is a two dimensional visual paradox that cannot exist in a three dimensional reality. When we were a fledgling business, the implication was the we could do the impossible. Now we are not quite so vainglorious, but there is a place where art, science, and magic coalesce in the realm of art conservation. Our objective is to stabilize the artwork and preserve it for posterity, which inevitably leads to pleasant visual aesthetics after the treatment.

Möbius and Escher on YouTube

Moebius Display

Moebius Strip Checkerboard

Escher Cube

Impossible Cube