Joseph Koerner

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Full Name	Joseph Koerner
Occupation	Art Historian
Date Of Birth	Jun 17, 1958(1958-06-17)
Age	66
Birthplace	Pittsburgh
Country	United States
Birth City	Pennsylvania
Horoscope	Gemini

Joseph Koerner Biography

Joseph Koerner is one of the most popular and richest Art Historian who was born on June 17, 1958 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Joseph Leo Koerner (born June 17th 1958) is a famous American filmmaker and historian of art. Koerner is in the position of Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture and since 2008, a Senior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. He specializes on Northern Renaissance and 19th-century art, Koerner is perhaps best known for his work in German art. After working in Harvard from 1989 until 1999 (as Professor from 1991) Koerner was transferred to Frankfurt in the year he held the position of professor of Modern Art History at the Goethe University, and to London in the UK, where he was a professor at the Courtauld Institute and Professorships in University College London and the Courtauld Institute before returning to Harvard in 2007. The movie The Burning Child, a documentary that blends personal and social historical context, debuted in the year 2019.

In Great Britain, Koerner is known for his work as writer and presenter of the three-part Northern Renaissance (2006) and the feature-lengthVienna: City of Dreams (2007), both produced in Scotland by the BBC and broadcast on BBC Four. A famous public speaker, Koerner has given the Slade Lectures at Oxford and Cambridge in 2003, the Slade Lectures at Cambridge (2003) in Oxford (2003) and Cambridge (2003), the Slade Lectures at Cambridge (2003) Oxford (2013) as well as and the Getty Lectures at USC (2005) and the Bross Lectures at the University of Chicago (2007) and The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the National Gallery (2008), the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Cambridge (2012) and The E. H. Gombrich Lectures on the Classical Tradition at the Warburg Institute (2016). The lectures he gave as The Avenali chair in Humanities and Cultures at U. C. Berkeley (2018) focused on Bosch as well as William Kentridge under the title that was borrowed of Kentridge, “Art in a State of Siege.” His most recent works deal with the subject of enmity within the work that was created by Hieronymus Bosch, which includes the book, which is based on the Mellon Lectures in Washington and highly acclaimed, Bosch and Bruegel: From the Enemy Painting to everyday Life (2016). In the book, he reexamined the dual-artist structure that was the subject of The Moment of Self- Portraiture in German Renaissance Art, though following a different path in mind: from an artistry that is specialized in hate (Bosch) towards one that suggests a new ethnographic view of the human.

The couple got married in 2003. got married to Margaret K Koerner (born Margaret Lendia Koster) Also, she is an art historian. A prior marriage was divorced.

Joseph Koerner Net Worth

Joseph Koerner is one of the richest Art Historian from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joseph Koerner 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Born in Vienna, the son of the artist and painter from America, Jewish descent Henry Koerner, Joseph Koerner was born within his native Squirrel Hill area of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Vienna, Austria. The artist completed his studies at Taylor Allderdice High School in 1976. He was a student at Yale University where he received his B.A. from the Department of History, the Arts, and Letters in the year 1980. His thesis for his senior year, which was released in the year 1983, in German with the title Die Suche nach dem Labyrinth (“In the Quest for the Labyrinth”) covered the legend of Daedalus and Icarus from Ancient Greek art and literature through James Joyce, with chapters on Ben Jonson, John Milton along with John Keats. Following a master of Arts in English at Cambridge University (M.A. 1982) under the supervision of Frank Kermode he wrote on Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, and then spent a year studying philosophy as well as German Literature in Heidelberg University (1983), Koerner earned an M.A. (1985) and a Ph.D. in the field of art history in the University of California, Berkeley in 1988. In his writings on subjects ranging from the early Chinese bronzes all the way to Renaissance painting , to Romanticism as well as contemporary art, the artist concentrated on the issue of meaning and created a unique method which is a finely-tuned analysis of the impact images can have on the viewer, accompanied by historical descriptions of the process by which the effect was created. Koerner employed this method most often in the beginning chapters of his debut art book on history, Caspar David Friedrich and the subject of Landscape (1990 winner of the Mitchell Prize)–written in the period that the writer was also a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. Koerner was part of the group researching Poetik und Hermeneutik in Konstanz in its latter period, from 1987 to 1994, and wrote about the theme of festivals and contingency or accident.

Koerner is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1995) and the American Philosophical Association (since 2008) Koerner has served on the board of Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Frick Art Reference Library, the Warburg Institute, Ralston College as well as the American Academy in Berlin. He was awarded an award of a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2006-7 and was a guest professor in the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz. As of 2009, Koerner is one of only three winners from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Distinguished Achievement Award, which is a grant for an academic and creative project focused on homemaking (geographic architectural,, as well as psychological) in Vienna starting with Otto Wagner to the present today. The project is based at Harvard The project created the documentary film helmed by Koerner The Burning Child. In the year 2020, the College Art Association honored him with the award for the year 2020. Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for writing on Art.

Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape became the third volume of Koerner’s trilogy on German art. The first volume, The Moment of Self- Portraiture in German Renaissance Art (1993), studied Albrecht Dürer’s self- portraits and their distortion by Dürer’s disciple, Hans Baldung Grien. The second volume, The Reformation of the Image (2004), focussed on works by Lucas Cranach, and treated Protestant iconoclasm and its aftermath in painting and architecture. Among its claims was that, prior to Protestantism, Christian art had iconoclasm built into it, most centrally in the image of the ruined Christ as crossed-out God. While writing the latter book, Koerner collaborated with Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel on the 2002 exhibition Iconoclash at the ZKM in Karlsruhe. He has also curated exhibitions of his father’s work, including a 1997 retrospective at the Austrian National Gallery. In the 1990s, he was a frequent contributor to The New Republic. He has published non-fiction in Granta Magazine and book and exhibition reviews in The New York Review of Books.

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