Angela Oberer was born and raised in Germany and graduated from Bonn University with a master’s thesis on The Cross Relic at the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista in Venice. After a fellowship at the Bonn Graduate Colloquium The Renaissance in Italy and its European Reception: Art, History, Literature, she won a scholarship at the Kress Foundation at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. Her doctoral thesis, submitted at the Technische Universitaet of Berlin, is entitled The Fresco Cycle of Signorelli and Sodoma in Monte Oliveto Maggiore.
Oberer has been working with American students and teaching at American colleges and universities since 2003.