NATHANAEL HAUSER, OSB

NATHANAEL HAUSER, OSB, is an artist and iconographer who has worked in egg tempera, enamel, calligraphy, and mosaic. While teaching art history as an associate professor at Saint John’s University, he also taught calligraphy and the theology and practice of icon painting. Father Nathanael has undertaken commissions for churches, monastic communities, and private collections, creating icons, enameled crosses, calligraphy books, reliquaries, and Christmas créches. His work and papers have been exhibited and presented in the United States and Rome, Italy. Father Nathanael received his bachelor’s degree in philosophy from St. John’s Seminary College in Camarillo, California. He received his STB from the Pontificio Ateneo di Sant’Anselmo, Rome, and his doctorate in Classical and Medieval Art and Archeology from the University of Minnesota.