Karl-Magnus Brose

PhD Student


Karl is a second-year doctoral candidate working under the direction of Sarah Betzer. His research focuses on formulations of classical and neoclassical aesthetics in French sculptural practice of the late seventeenth and eighteenth century. 

Karl graduated with honors from the University of Minnesota in 2015 with a B.A. in Philosophy and a minor in Art History. His summa cum laude thesis studied the entanglement of the modern and the antique in the work of J.J. Winckelmann, focusing on his criticism of the sculptor Gianlorenzo Bernini. He received his M.A. in Art History from the University of Toronto in 2019.