Wolf Burchard
Wolf Burchard is a British-German art historian and museum curator. He joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in 2019, where he is responsible for British decorative arts.
Life and career
Burchard held curatorial positions at the Royal Collection Trust (2009-2014) and the National Trust (2015-2018). In 2014, he co-organized the exhibition The First Georgians: Art and Monarchy, 1714-1760, shown at the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace to mark the tercentenary of the Hanoverian succession.[1] At the National Trust, he oversaw the digital cataloguing of the trust's collection of 55,000 pieces of furniture.[2][3]
He is the curator of Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts (2021),[4][5][6][7][8][9] the first ever exhibit devoted to Walt Disney shown at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Wallace Collection in London.[10][11][12][13][14][15] Burchard led the 22 million dollar renovation of the Met's British Galleries, the re-opening of which in February 2020 marked the museum's 150th anniversary.[16][17][18][19][20]
Burchard was born and raised in Paris, France. He read history of art and architecture at the universities of Tübingen, Vienna and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, from which he holds an MA and PhD.
Publications
- The Sovereign Artist: Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis XIV, Paul Holberton Publishing, London, 2016[21]
- Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, New York and New Haven, 2021[22]
- "What’s the point of rebuilding Germany’s palaces?", Apollo Magazine (March 2016), pp. 146–152.[23]
- "Don’t Pull the Rug From Under Our Feet! – Historic Carpets in English Country Houses", Country Life (December 2018), pp. 190–194
- "Nation of Shopkeepers: A Very Brief History of British Decorative Arts", The New British Galleries, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Spring 2020), pp. 5–29[24]
Burchard is a regular contributor to Apollo Magazine, the Art Newspaper and Furniture History[25][26][27]
Personal life
Wolf Burchard is the great nephew of modernist architect and Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and the brother of film and theatre actresses Marie Burchard and Bettina Burchard.[citation needed]
References
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