Joseph Koerner
Joseph Koerner | |
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| Notable works | Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape (1990), The Moment of Self-Portraiture (1993), The Reformation of the Image (2004), Bosch and Bruegel (2016) |
Joseph Leo Koerner (born June 17, 1958) is an American
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Early life and education
Son of the Vienna-born American painter
Receiving in 1980 a Mellon Fellowship for study at Clare College, Cambridge, Koerner earned a Master of Arts in English Literature. Supervised by Frank Kermode,he wrote a (M.A.) dissertation on Joyce's Finnegans Wake. On a one-year fellowship from the Deutscher Akademische Austauschdienst (1982–1983), he studied philosophy and German literature at Heidelberg University with Hans-Georg Gadamer and Peter Pfaff. Work undertaken at Yale and Cambridge on Caspar David Friedrich, and influenced by a friendship with Frank Schirrmacher, on the German historical tradition shifted Koerner's focus to the history of German art. He received an M.A. (1985) and Ph.D. in art history at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1988. His dissertation on self-portraiture in the German Renaissance was advised by Svetlana Alpers, James Marrow, and Stephen Greenblatt.
Career
Koerner developed his characteristic 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.[3] At Berkeley, Koerner began an association with the journal RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, where he published numerous articles and editorials and served (since 1990) as Associate Editor. During this period, Koerner was also a member of the research group Poetik und Hermeneutik in Konstanz in its later phase, 1987–1994, writing on the themes of festival and contingency, or accident.
In Great Britain, Koerner is known for his work as writer and presenter of the three-part Northern Renaissance (2006) and the feature-length Vienna: City of Dreams (2007), both produced in Scotland by the BBC and first broadcast on
A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1995) and the American Philosophical Society (since 2008),[10] and a Fellow of Society of Antiquaries of London (since 2021), Koerner has served on the boards of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, the Frick Art Reference Library, the Warburg Institute, Ralston College, and the American Academy in Berlin. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his research on Reformation art (2006-7) and has served as Visiting Professor at the University of Konstanz (1991) and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz. In 2009, Koerner was one of three recipients of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Distinguished Achievement Award, which funded an academic and creative project on homemaking (geographic, architectural, and psychic) in Vienna from Otto Wagner to the present day. Based at Harvard, the project produced the 2013 Slade Lectures series "City of Dreams" and the documentary film written, produced, and directed by Koerner, The Burning Child.[11][12] A new German version of the film will premier in 2024 under the title "Wohnungswanderung" ('Home Wandering'). Koerner has been primary advisor of some twenty-five doctoral dissertations completed at Harvard, the Courtauld Institute, University College London, and Frankfurt University. In 2020 the College Art Association honored him with its 2020 Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art.[13] He a member of the Executive Committee of Harvard's Center for Jewish Studies and currently (until 2027) serves as Chair of Harvard's Department of History of Art and Architecture.
Personal life
In 2003, Koerner married Margaret K Koerner (born Margaret Lendia Koster), also an art historian; a previous marriage ended in divorce.[14]
Books
- Die Suche nach dem Labyrinth—Der Mythos von Daidalos und Ikarus, 1983 ISBN 978-3-518-03499-6
- Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape, 1990; 2nd ed. rev. and expanded, 2008 ISBN 978-1-86189-439-7
- Paul Klee: Legends of the Sign (with ISBN 978-02310-7034-8
- The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art, 1993 ISBN 978-0-226-44999-9
- Unheimliche Heimat—Henry Koerner 1915–1991, 1997 ISBN 978-1-86189-439-7
- The Reformation of the Image, 2004 ISBN 978-0-226-44837-4
- Dürer’s Hands, 2006 ISBN 978-0-912114-35-4
- Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life, 2016 ISBN 978-0691172286
- Dürer's Mobility, 2022 ISBN 9781857096910
Filmography
- Northern Renaissance (2006) Writer/Presenter, 3-part series, 180 minutes. Premier: BBC Four (2006).
- Vienna: City of Dreams (2007) Writer/Presenter, 88 minutes. Premiere: BBC Four (2007).
- The Burning Child (completed 2018, released 2019) Writer/Presenter/Producer/and Director (with co-director Christian Bruun). 111 minutes.
References
- ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: The Burning Child -- Official Trailer. YouTube.
- ^ The Allderdice. Seniors: Joseph Koerner: Taylor Allderdice High School. 1976. p. 52.
- ^ Debretts Archived 2012-03-09 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ ZKM
- ^ Guardian lead review
- ^ Critical Inquiry
- ^ RES
- ^ "Monuments: A new course with Sarah Lewis and Joseph Leo Koerner - YouTube". YouTube.
- ^ "Scrutinizing Narratives Behind Nation's Monuments". 28 April 2022.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
- ^ IMDbThe Clark
- ^ October Magazine
- ^ CAA
- ^ He has four children. New York Times story
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