Angela Oberer was born and raised in Germany.
She graduated from Bonn University with a master’s thesis on “The Cross Relic at the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista in Venice”. After being a Fellow 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”.

Angela Oberer has been working with American students and teaching at American colleges and universities since 2003.