Peter Vergo

Peter Vergo is a leading expert on modern Russian, German and Austrian art, and the recipient of the Golden Order of Merit, bestowed by the Republic of Austria for services to Austrian art. His other publications include Kandinsky: Complete Writings and Twentieth-Century German Painting: The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection . His two books about the relationship between art and music, That Divine Order and The Music of Painting , were published by Phaidon in 2005 and 2010. Vergo is Professor of...See more

Peter Vergo is a leading expert on modern Russian, German and Austrian art, and the recipient of the Golden Order of Merit, bestowed by the Republic of Austria for services to Austrian art. His other publications include Kandinsky: Complete Writings and Twentieth-Century German Painting: The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection . His two books about the relationship between art and music, That Divine Order and The Music of Painting , were published by Phaidon in 2005 and 2010. Vergo is Professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex. See less