Staff Profile

Joachim Homann oversees the collection of European and American drawings and watercolors. Homann studied in Göttingen, Munich, Karlsruhe, and Heidelberg and received a doctoral fellowship at the University of Hamburg. His dissertation was focused on Habsburgian and Napoleonic art, politics, and the public sphere in the city of Milan between 1770 and 1814. A curatorial fellowship at the Harvard Art Museums prepared him for positions at the University of Texas, El Paso; Colgate University; and most recently Bowdoin College. As head of the curatorial team at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, he organized numerous exhibitions on European and American art with a special emphasis on works on paper. At the Harvard Art Museums, he recently co-curated American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, an exhibition drawn from the museums’ collections, with exceptional works by artists from Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent to Richard Tuttle and Hannah Wilke. He is currently working on Ten Trails, an exhibition of drawings and watercolors of the outdoors in 19th-century Europe. He is developing a class, The Object in the Museum, to be taught in Harvard’s Department of History of Art and Architecture.