13 Facts About Henry Koerner

In 1949 Henry Koerner work received the Temple Gold Medal from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine arts.

Henry Koerner settled in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood, which through its geography of hills and bridges, and its long-established Jewish community, reminded him of Vienna.

From 1955 to 1967, Henry Koerner painted forty-six portrait covers for Time magazine.

The center of Henry Koerner's output were large-scale allegorical paintings made up of sixteen canvases assembled in four rows of four.

Henry Koerner received the 1986 Hazlett Memorial Award.

Henry Koerner died in 1991 in St Polten, Austria, following complications from a hit-and-run accident on his bicycle in the Wachau in Austria.

Henry Koerner is buried beside his wife in Pittsburgh's Homewood Cemetery.

Henry Koerner's son Joseph Koerner is a professor of history of art at Harvard University and a documentary film-maker.

Henry Koerner's daughter Stephanie Koerner is a lecturer at Liverpool University's School of Architecture.

Henry Koerner's art is represented in many public collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Sheldon Museum of Art, the Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Wien Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, Columbus Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, and Harvard Art Museums.

The Center celebrated it 20th-Anniversary Rededication with an exhibition of works by Henry Koerner, mostly donated newly to the Center.

In 2019 Henry Koerner Hall was opened at Bard College Berlin.

Henry Koerner's first painting features prominently in the 2019 film The Burning Child.