Studied art history at the University of Vienna; 2005–11 employed in the art restitution working group of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism; since May 2011 provenance researcher in the Albertina on behalf of the Commission for Provenance Research; since 2016 also in charge of the database of provenance markings.
The entrepreneur Alexander Beer from Moravia lived from 1911 with his wife Adelheid née Gyurits (1867–1955) in Baden near Vienna. Over the years, he put together an extensive art collection focusing on nineteenth-century Austrian art.