Joseph Leo Koerner

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and raised there and in Vienna, Austria, Joseph Leo Koerner was educated at Yale, Cambridge University, and Berkeley. An art historian and filmmaker, he is currently a professor at Harvard University, and has taught at the Courtauld Institute of Art (London), the University of Frankfurt, Cambridge University and Oxford University. His first art history book, "Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape" won the Jan Mitchell Prize. He has also written prize-winning books on Bosch and Bruegel, self-portraiture, and Protestant iconoclasm. He has written and presented films for the BBC and wrote, produced, and directed the feature documentary THE BURNING CHILD (available on AmazonPrime)