Kolja Thurner

Kolja Thurner is an Art and Visual Historian. He studied Art History, German Studies and Philosophy at Eberhard-Karls University, Tübingen (B.A.) and Art and Visual History at Humboldt-Universtiät zu Berlin (M.A.). Since 2017 he is working as a Research Assistant to Prof. Dr. Horst Bredekamp.

His research focuses on the early modern history of double imagery as well as on the material and symbolic interplay of chance, amorphism and figuration in landscape painting.

His PhD project »Patinir and the Pioneers of Seeing« investigates the visual culture of double images in 16th century Antwerp art.