Andreas Nierhaus was born in Graz in 1978. He studied art history and history in Vienna. From 2004 to 2005, he was an assistant at the Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna. From 2005 to 2008, he was a member of the Art History Committee of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Since 2005, he has been a professor at the University of Vienna, and since 2008, he has been a curator at the Vienna Museum. He has also been a visiting professor at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. In 2022, he received his habilitation from the University of Vienna.
