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Artist Henry Koerner in workshop

ca. 1956

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Artist Henry Koerner in workshop
  • Title
  • Artist Henry Koerner in workshop
  • Date
  • ca. 1956
  • Identifier
  • PCC000096
  • Description
  • This photograph shows Henry Koerner working in his studio. Koerner came to Pittsburgh in 1952 to teach at the Pennsylvania College for Women and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. He is known as a master of magic realism, which combines reality with symbolic images in a highly-finished style. He designed many covers for Time magazine from 1955 to 1967. Some of his works are part of the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City and several well known art museums have put on retrospective shows of his work. Koerner was born in Vienna, Austria where he was trained as a graphic designer. In 1938 he fled the German occupation, immigrating to the United States and leaving his parents and brother in Austria. During World War II, he was drafted into the Army and designed posters for the Office of War Information in Washington, DC. One of his posters, "Someone Talked," won an award from the Museum of Modern Art. After the war, he was assigned to Germany as a court artist during the Nuremburg Trials. After the war he learned that his parents and brother had died in a Nazi concentration camp. Koerner and his wife visited Vienna often and it was there that Koerner died in 1991 after a car hit him while he was on his bicycle. He is buried at Homewood Cemetery in Pittsburgh.
  • Place of Publication
  • Unknown
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Pittsburgh, (Pa.)
    Shadyside (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Chatham College
    Koerner, Henry
    Magic realism (Art)
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Unknown
  • Source
  • Chatham University Chronological Photograph Files
  • Contributor
  • Chatham University
  • Collection
  • Chatham University Chronological Photograph Files
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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