WHO ARE WE?

Kolja Thurner brings to each project a comprehensive knowledge of Early Modern Art. He possesses well over a decade of academic training and scholarly experience, combined with a long-lasting passion for the Old Master art market.

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Specialized in 16th & 17th century Northern European art, he is currently a Research Associate at the Cluster of Excellence "Matters of Activity" and a PhD candidate at Humboldt University Berlin. He is completing his Dissertation on the Early Modern landscape painter Joachim Patinir, examining questions of important new attributions. Before, he held a scholarship from the Cluster of Excellence "Bild Wissen Gestaltung", and served as a research assistant to Prof. Horst Bredekamp.

In his approach to paintings and the art market, profound academic experience in the fields of iconography and style go hand in hand with an appreciation for the physical object, its technical properties, and with classical connoisseurship, cultivated since the beginning of his studies. This results in the highest and most critical standards being applied to each artwork.

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Having passionately worked on and with Old Masters his whole career, he possesses a critical eye, rooted in scholarship, and schooled in the major European and American museums and collections.