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Christof Metzger studied art history, and archaeology at the University of Augsburg and gained his doctorate in 1999. In 2011 he joined the Albertina Vienna, where he served since 2014 as Chief Curator. He published numerous books and essays on the art of the Dürer period and has curated several exhibitions. Julia Zaunbauer studied art history, German philology and Celtic studies in Vienna, Paris and Edinburgh. She works as a curator at the Albertina in Vienna, and has contributed to numerous exhibitions and publications on Albrecht Dürer and art around 1500. After completing his studies of art history and archaeology at the University of Vienna, Karl Schütz joined the staff of the Gemäldegalerie of the city’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, serving from 1972 as a curator and from 1990 to 2011 as its director. His particular scholarly interests include Netherlandish and Flemish painting, early-16th-century German painting, courtly portraiture, and the history of the Gemäldegalerie collection.