Wolf Burchard
Wolf Burchard (born 1985) is a British-German art historian, author and museum curator. Since 2019 he is an associate curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, where he oversees British furniture and other decorative works of art, not including ceramics and textiles.
Life and Career
Burchard was born (1985) 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.
He held curatorial positions at the Royal Collection Trust (2009-2014) and the National Trust (2015-2018), where he co-organized the exhibition The First Georgians: Art and Monarchy, 1714-1760, held at the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, marking the tercentenary of the Hanoverian succession in 2014.[1][2] While at the National Trust, he worked on a project cataloging their collection of furniture.[3]
In 2019 Burchard joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art and oversaw the completion of the museum’s British Galleries in 2020 [1], a 22-million-dollar renovation project.
He is the curator of Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts (2021) [2], shown at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Wallace Collection in London.[4] He led the curation of the new British galleries (2020) and the museum's first ever exhibit devoted to Walt Disney, to which he will publish a companion book in November 2021.[5][6][7][8][9]
Family
Wolf Burchard is the great nephew of modernist arcitect and Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and the brother of theatre actresses Marie Burchard and Bettina Burchard.
Publications
The following is an incomplete list of Wolf Burchard literary works:
- The Sovereign Artist: Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis XIV, Paul Holberton Publishing, London, 2016;[3]
- The British Embassy at Palais Starhemberg: Furniture from the Congress of Vienna at Mount Stewart, Furniture History, LII (2017), pp. 191-224;[4]
- Game of Thrones (Seats of Power through the Centuries), Apollo (March 2018), pp. 162-168);[5]
- Capital Gains: Inside Berlin’s Humboldt Forum (Interview with Neil MacGregor, former Director of the British Museum), The Art Newspaper, 305 (October 2018), pp. 26-27; [6]
- 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, in “The New British Galleries”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (Spring 2020), pp. 5-29.[7]
Buchard has written extensively for Apollo Magazine and Furniture History[10][11]
External link
- Article about Wolf Burchard on https://www.metmuseum.org/
- Article about Wolf Burchard on https://www.apollo-magazine.com/
References
- ^ "Online Lecture | Wolf Burchard on The Met's New British Galleries". Enfilade. 13 June 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Meet the National Trust's Furniture Research Curator, Supported by Royal Oak". The Royal Oak Foundation. 14 October 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ Stamp, Agnes (13 September 2017). "Cotswolds Number". Country Life. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
- ^ Kenney, Nancy (27 February 2020). "In the Met's British galleries, a tale of artisans spurred by entrepreneurial forces". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Metropolitan Museum Unveils Plans For New British Decorative Arts Galleries". Artlyst. 9 November 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ Saenger, Peter (23 January 2020). "A New Look at Britain's Old Treasures". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ Burchard, Wolf (2021). Inspiring Walt Disney. ISBN 9781588397416. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ Rizzo, Cailey (30 June 2021). "A Disney Exhibit Is Headed To the Met at the End of 2021". Travel + Leisure. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ Sporn, Stephanie (14 April 2021). "Thanks to Bridgerton, Regency Decor Is on the Ascent". Architectural Digest. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Author: Wolf Burchard". Apollo Magazine. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
- ^ Bensoussan, Nicole (2019). "The Sovereign Artist: Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis XIV. Wolf Burchard. London: Paul Holberton, 2016. 288 pp. £40". Renaissance Quarterly. 72 (2): 619–620. doi:10.1017/rqx.2019.148. ISSN 0034-4338. Retrieved 3 August 2021.