On his father's side Neufert is related to the architect Ernst Neufert (1900–1986), to the philologist Friedrich Vollmer (1867–1923), to Anna Maria Lasinsky (Freiin von Knapp) (1782–1839) the German-Polish romantic poet, and to the German-Polish Lasinsky family.
His dissertation about the Austrian-Mexican surrealist Wolfgang Paalen is mainly concerned with the aspect of the Viennese philosophical tradition of (logical positivism, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ernest Mach).
1993/94 he worked as guest curator at the Museum Moderner Kunst – Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, and 1994 as co-curator of the retrospective exhibition Wolfgang Paalen in the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; Neufert became a regular guest-curator at the MACG, Mexiko (1994–98) and realized f.e.
2015 he published the 700 pages biography on Paalen Auf Liebe und Tod (Parthas Berlin).
In 2019 he curated a Wolfgang Paalen Retrospective Exhibition for the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere in Vienna.