Editorial

Christian Huemer has been director of the Belvedere Research Centre since 2017. He studied art history in Vienna, Paris, and New York, where he gained his doctorate with a thesis titled “Paris-Vienna: Modern Art Markets and the Transmission of Culture (1873–1937).” From 2008 to 2017, he headed the Collecting & Provenance department at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. His research focuses on the history of the international art market, French and Austrian Modernism, and digital art history. He also serves as editor-in-chief of the Brill series Studies in the History of Collecting & Art Markets.

Anna-Marie Kroupová is a Research Associate at the Belvedere, Vienna, and a PhD candidate in Cultural Heritage Studies at the University of Vienna. She won the Sir Ernst Gombrich Talent Award for the best MA dissertation, in which she examined the relationship between Czech Modernist art and the rise of nationalism around 1900. Her PhD project, supervised by Noémie Étienne, examines the role of Czechoslovakia in Cold War cultural diplomacy from a postcolonial perspective.

Anna Ewa Dyrko is Assistant Curator for Contemporary Art and the Blickle Cinema at the Belvedere, where she previously worked as assistant to the chief curator. She completed her studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with a master's thesis on aspects of disgust in Paul McCarthy's artistic practice. Subsequently, she worked as an art mediator at documenta 12, as an academic trainee at the Berlinische Galerie, and as gallery manager for multiple galleries in Berlin.