Ackerman, Gerald M.

Gérôme and 19th-century French art scholar. Ackerman graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1952 with a B.A. He moved to Munich where he studied at the Maximillien University under Hans Sedlmayr between 1956-1958 before returning to the United States where he began teaching as an art history lecturer at Bryn Mawr. He received his MFA at Princeton University in 1960, continuing for his Ph.D. in 1964 with a thesis, written under Erwin Panofsky and Rensselaer W. Lee, on the Trattato of Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo. Ackerman was appointed assistant professor at Stanford University in 1965. In 1971 he moved to Pamona College as associate professor, becoming full professor in 1976. He was Fulbright Professor, University of Leningrad, in 1980. Ackerman taught as Appleton Distinguished Professor at Florida State University in 1994.