Corinna Gannon studied art history and English Studies in Frankfurt am Main. From 2018 until 2022, she was a research assistant in the department of art history at Goethe University. Her teaching and research focused on the history and practice of collecting portraits. On behalf of the Dr. Senckenbergische Stiftung
she conducted a research project on the foundation’s collection of portraits of physicians (16th–20th century) and published a monograph dedicated to Frankfurt’s medical and art history (2022). In her dissertation, Efficacious Artefacts. Visual Concepts of Natural Magic in the Kunstkammer of Rudolf II., she pursued a materialiconological approach and focused on the connection between art, alchemy and natural magic at the court of Rudolf II. in Prague. Since January 2023, Corinna is an assistant curator at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt in the department of Dutch, Flemish and German Painting before 1800.