Lynn Rother is a provenance scholar, art historian, and curator specializing in twentieth-century provenance, critical art market studies, and museum research. Trained in art history, economics, and law at the University of Leipzig, and holding a Ph.D. from the Technical University of Berlin, her research examines how object histories, cultural infrastructures, and networks shape institutional practices and the values and meanings of art. Her work has received major support from the Volkswagen and Getty Foundations, and she was awarded the Humanities International Prize for outstanding German-language scholarship, funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the German Federal Foreign Office. She is Lichtenberg Professor for Provenance Studies and Director of the Provenance Lab at Leuphana University of Lüneburg in Germany, and also serves as the inaugural Curator for Provenance at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.