is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University and a Senior Fellow of Harvard’s Society of Fellows. He has taught at the University of Frankfurt, the Courtauld Institute of Art, and at University College, London. He was formerly the Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge a Visiting Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. He was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995 and in the American Philosophical Society in 2008. In 2009 he received the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award. Dr Koerner wrote and presented for the BBC the television series Northern Renaissance and the documentary Vienna: City of Dreams. His books include The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art, The Reformation of the Image, and Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape (which won the Jan Mitchell Prize for the History of Art in 1992). Together these books trace, from the time of Luther onward, the history of modern subjectivity in its inwardness as it shapes—and communicates itself in—the development of German art. A much-desired public expert in his field, Koerner has delivered numerous lecture series and was the director of the 2019 film The Burning Child, which explores annexed Austria through the perspective of its turn to modernist architecture.
