Helen Kohn, M.A.

Dottoranda

Interessi di ricerca

  • Correggio and his religious network (esp. Cassinese Congregation)
  • Conservation and museum history 
  • Sixteenth-century Italian altarpieces
  • Reception of female Vorticists and Wyndham Lewis 

Progetto di ricerca

Approaches to the Care of Correggio’s Madonna of Saint Sebastian

Curriculum vitae

Helen Kohn is a predoctoral fellow in the Lise-Meitner Group “Decay, Loss, and Conservation in Art History” and a doctoral candidate at Goethe University, Frankfurt. She holds a bachelor’s degree in art history from the University of Vienna and master’s degree with a specialisation in the Italian Renaissance from the Courtauld Institute, London. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Following her studies, she worked as a curatorial fellow at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, where she was involved in various exhibition projects at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister. Since 2022 she has been the research assistant for the conservation project of Correggio’s Madonna of Saint Sebastian at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister. In connection with this project, she is writing her doctoral thesis on Correggio’s Madonna of Saint Sebastian and the “visionary” altarpiece in sixteenth-century northern Italy, supervised by Professor Hans Aurenhammer and Professor David Ekserdjian. 

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