CHRISTIAN HUEMER
Christian Huemer studied art history at the University of Vienna, the Sorbonne in Paris, and the
Graduate Center, City University of New York (dissertation: Paris-Vienna: Modern Art Markets
and the Transmission of Culture, 1873-1937). After curatorial internships at the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, he spent several years as an
independent author, curator and educator – pursuing the latter also in a managerial position at the
Belvedere. 2003-05 Huemer held fellowships from the Vienna Internationales
Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
in Paris. His papers and publications have focused primarily on the history of art markets,
Central European art and architecture, and digital art history. 2007 Huemer was deputy director
and head of programs at the International Center for Culture and Management in Salzburg. Since
2008 he has been heading the Project for the Study of Collecting and Provenance at the Getty
Research Institute in Los Angeles.