Studied German Philology and History at the University of Vienna; worked at the General Settlement Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism and at the National Socialist "euthanasia" memorials in Hartheim and Am Spiegelgrund; 2008-11 project work on politically motivated property expropriation in Vienna 1933-38 at the Department of Legal and Constitutional History at the University of Vienna; 2011-17 provenance researcher at the Albertina on behalf of the Commission for Provenance Research; 2017 transfer to the Arts and Culture Division, at that time in the Federal Chancellery, among other things responsible for the establishment of a memorial to Austrian Shoah victims in Maly Trostinec/Minsk (Belarus); since 2019 Head of the Commission for Provenance Research and the Office of the Art Restitution Advisory Board at the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport.
On 4 July 1776, American Independence Day, the imperial envoy Giacomo Durazzo in Venice gave Duke Albert von Sachsen-Teschen (1738–1822) and his wife Marie Christine (1742–1798) a collection of engravings he had commissioned two years earlier.