Michael Buhrs is an art historian and, since 2007, director of the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich. Exhibitions he has curated include retrospectives of the work of Heribert C. Ottersbach, Christoph Brech and Cornelius Völker. He is currently working with his team on preparing a special Villa Stuck programme to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Franz von Stuck in 2013.