Colin Eisler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Colin Eisler

researcher

Date of Birth: 17-Mar-1931

Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany

Profession: art historian

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Colin Eisler

  • Colin Tobias Eisler is an art historian, Robert Lehman Professor of Fine Arts at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, and a widely published expert on early Netherlandish art. Eisler was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1931.
  • His family subsequently moved to the United States, where Eisler received his undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1952.
  • He studied at Oxford from 1952 to 1953, then completed his master's degree at Harvard University the following year.
  • He was hired to teach art history at Yale from 1955–1957 while he was working on his doctorate.
  • Eisler received his PhD from Harvard in 1957, and spent the following year as a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
  • He has taught at New York University since 1958. His research and writing have been furthered by many grants and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellowship, and a Henry Fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford.
  • He was the recipient of a festschrift for his 80th birthday in 2011, when his colleagues published New Studies on Old Masters: Essays in Renaissance Art in Honour of Colin Eisler.

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