Anne Grasselli

Dr. Anne Grasselli is an Associate Lecturer at The Courtauld Institute of Art, specializing in modern art history with a focus on Wassily Kandinsky and visual perception studies. She completed her PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2024, examining intersections between Kandinsky's early work and experimental psychology.

Education includes:

• PhD in History of Art, University of Edinburgh (2024)
• MA in History of Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art (2015)
• BA in Art History, University of Mary Washington (2013)

Her research explores how psychological principles of visual perception influenced early 20th-century abstraction. She co-convenes the Research Forum for German Visual Culture and has held research positions at institutions including the National Gallery of Art and Morgan Library.

Publications primarily analyze Kandinsky's engagement with perceptual science across journals and exhibition catalogs, consistently examining modernist responses to psychological theories.

Awards include:

• DAAD Fellowship at Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte München
• Leverhulme Study Abroad Studentship
• Association for Art History research grant

Teaches undergraduate courses on European modernism and has guest lectured internationally on visual perception in art.