Dr. Dr. Dieter Buchhart (b. 1971; Vienna, Austria) is a curator, art historian, and art theorist. He has curated major exhibitions on Edvard Munch, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Alexander Calder in internationally renowned museums such as the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris; the Albertina, Vienna; the Art Gallery of Ontario; and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Dr. Dr. Buchhart holds two doctorates in art history and art conservation. From 2007 to 2009, he was director of the Kunsthalle Krems near Vienna. Since 1999, Dr. Dr. Buchhart has written numerous art reviews and monographs and conducted interviews for Kunstforum International and other art magazines. As an art theorist, he has contributed many catalog essays, magazine articles, and lectures. His main areas of research range from Expressionism and art around 1900 to art from the 1980s to the present. He is a leading expert on the fundamental research on Jean-Michel Basquiat’s artworks.
