Art historian; studied art history at the University of Vienna; since 1997 employed in the archive of the Federal Monuments Authority; since 1998 provenance researcher in the Bureau of the Commission for Provenance Research; research and publications on collections expropriated in the Nazi period, most recently vol. 8 of the Commission for Provenance Research publication series on the files in the Federal Monuments Authority on Hitler's "Sonderauftrag Ostmark".
Alois Bauer, a partner in the curtain and carpet factory Leopold Selmeczi & Son in Wiener Neustadt, with a branch office at Fischerstiege 9, in Vienna’s 1st district, had lived, since 1921, with his wife Ella, née Lederer,