Eduard Trier (4 January 1920 - 27 June 2009) was a German art historian, exhibition curator and academic.
He was born in Cologne to Helene and Hans Trier, the latter being a postal worker.
From 1948 he wrote art criticism for daily newspapers and magazines such as the Bonner General-Anzeiger, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Die Zeit.
In 1952 Trier gained his doctorate with a thesis on the medieval wooden sculptures of eight prophets in Cologne City Hall.
[1] In 1953 he married Edith Brabender, an art restorer from Cologne, and they had three children, including Marcus Trier (born 1962).