Joseph Koerner
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| Born |
June 17, 1958 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Education |
Yale University Cambridge University Heidelberg University University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation | Art historian |
| Spouse(s) | Margaret Lendia Koster (2003–present) |
| Children | Benjamin Henry Anders, Anna Sigrid Gunhild, Leo Anselm, Lucy Willa |
Joseph Leo Koerner (born June 17, 1958 in Pittsburgh) is an American art historian. He is currently the Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture and Senior Fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Specializing in Northern Renaissance and 19th-century art, Koerner is perhaps best known for his work on German art. After teaching at Harvard from 1989 to 1999, he moved to Frankfurt, where he was Professor of Modern Art History at the Goethe University, and to London, where he taught at University College, London and the Courtauld Institute before returning to Harvard in 2007. He also served as Director of Undergraduate Studies in Harvard's History of Art and Architecture department.
Son of the Vienna-born American painter Henry Koerner, Joseph Koerner was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Vienna, Austria. He attended Yale University where he received his B.A. in History, the Arts, and Letters in 1980. His senior thesis, published in 1983 in German titled Die Suche nach dem Labyrinth ("In Quest of the Labyrinth"), treated the myth of Daedalus and Icarus from Ancient Greek art and literature through James Joyce. After a Master of Arts in English at Cambridge University (M.A. 1982) and a year studying philosophy at Heidelberg University (1983), Koerner received his Ph.D. in art history at the University of California, Berkeley in 1988. In articles on topics ranging from early Chinese bronzes through Renaissance painting to Romanticism contemporary art, Koerner focused on problems of meaning and developed a distinctive technique: fine-grained analysis of the effect images have on the beholder combined with historical accounts of this effect. Koerner used this technique most extensively in the opening chapters of his first art history book, Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape (1990, Winner of the 1992 Mitchell Prize)—written while the author was a Junior Fellow at Harvard’s Society of Fellows. Koerner was a member of the research group Poetik und Hermeneutik in Konstanz in its later phase, 1987-1994.
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