Dieter Schwarz, curator, author and consultant for modern and contemporary art.

Born in Zurich in 1953, lives in Zurich. Studied German and French literature, Linguistics and Comparative Literature in Zurich;
graduated 1981 with a PhD.
1983–85: Paris, research on Stéphane Mallarmé’s “Book”.
1985–90: Curator at Kunstmuseum Winterthur.
1990–2017: Director of Kunstmuseum Winterthur.
2016 to date: Curator of the Skulpturenhalle of the Thomas Schütte Foundation.

Numerous exhibitions and publications on art from early modernity to the present day.

Member of the Menil Drawing Institute Advisory Committee and of the Boards of Thomas Schütte Foundation, and Fondation Mattioli Rossi.