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Son of the Vienna-born American painter [[Henry Koerner]], Joseph Koerner was raised in the [[Squirrel Hill]] area of [[Pittsburgh]], [[Pennsylvania]], and in [[Vienna]], Austria. He graduated from [[Taylor Allderdice High School]] in 1976.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Allderdice|date=1976|publisher=Taylor Allderdice High School|location=Seniors: Joseph Koerner|page=52}}</ref> He attended [[Yale University]] where he received his [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in history in 1980. His senior thesis, published in German by Suhrkamp Verlag in 1983 with the title ''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]], with chapters on [[Ben Jonson]], [[John Milton]], and [[John Keats]]. An early deconstructive analysis of literary history, the book argued that the story of Daedalus's maze, and the escape from the maze by flight, concerned the problem of time as understood existentially and aesthetically. At Yale he worked for four years as research assistant for historian [[Peter Gay]] while Gay was writing his biography of [[Sigmund Freud]] and training to be a [[lay analyst]].
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 [[Doctor of Philosophy|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==
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