Curriculum

Lynn Rother is the Lichtenberg Professor for Provenance Studies and the Director of the Provenance Lab at Leuphana University. She also serves as the inaugural Curator for Provenance at The Museum of Modern Art in New York in an adjunct role.

Prior to these appointments, she held research positions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York (2015–19) and the Berlin State Museums (2008–14) working on 20th-century provenance and digital initiatives. A former Fellow of The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles (2014–15) and of the German Historical Institute in Moscow (2011), she has a Master’s degree in art history, economics, and law from the University of Leipzig (2008) and a Ph.D. in art history from the Technical University of Berlin, advised by Bénédicte Savoy (2015).

Lynn Rother currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the ZADIK (Central Archive for German and International Art Market Research, Cologne), the Advisory Board of NFDI4Objects (Research Data Infrastructure for the Material Remains of Human History), the Funding Committee "Nazi confiscated art" of the DZK (Deutsches Zentrum für Kulturgutverluste / German Lost Art Foundation), the Getty Provenance Index Advisory Committee, the Editorial Board of linked.art, the Expert Witness Selection Committee of CAfA (Court of Arbitration for Art) among others.

Research Interests

Lynn Rother focuses in her research and teaching on the provenance of cultural objects; the digital and societal transformation of museums; the historical, economic, and legal aspects of the art market, collecting and looting; as well as computational methods in the humanities and cultural heritage institutions.