Hiltrud Kier

Hiltrud Kier (née Arnetzl; born 30 June 1937) is an Austrian art historian and academic. She was city conservator to Cologne and Director General of the city's museums, with her term including the Year of Romanesque Churches in 1985. She popularised the preservation of monuments and was committed to 1950s buildings.

Publications Works by Hiltrud Kier: Der mittelalterliche Schmuckfussboden unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Rheinlandes, 1970 Schmuckfussböden in Renaissance und Barock, 1976 Die Kölner Neustadt: Planung, Entstehung, Nutzung, 1978 Die romanischen Kirchen in Köln, 1985 Lust und Verlust: Kölner Sammler zwischen Trikolore und Preussenadler, 1995