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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 furniture and decorative works of art.

Life and Career

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.

He 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, held at the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace to mark the tercentenary of the Hanoverian succession. At the National Trust, he oversaw the digital cataloging of the trust's collection of 55.000 pieces of furniture.[1][2]

He is the curator of Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts (2021) [1], the first ever exhibit devoted to Walt Disney shown at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Wallace Collection in London.[3][4] Burchard lead the 22 million dollar renovation of the Met's British Galleries of the which the re-opening in February 2020 marked the museum's 150th anniversary.[5][6][7][8][9]

Publications

  • The Sovereign Artist: Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis XIV, Paul Holberton Publishing, London, 2016[10]
  • Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, New York and New Haven, 2021
  • "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[11]

Burchard is a regular contributor to Apollo Magazine, the Art Newspaper and Furniture History[12][13][14]

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

  1. ^ "Meet the National Trust's Furniture Research Curator, Supported by Royal Oak". The Royal Oak Foundation. 14 October 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  2. ^ Stamp, Agnes (13 September 2017). "Cotswolds Number". Country Life. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  3. ^ Burchard, Wolf (2021). Inspiring Walt Disney. ISBN 9781588397416. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  4. ^ Rizzo, Cailey (30 June 2021). "A Disney Exhibit Is Headed To the Met at the End of 2021". Travel + Leisure. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  5. ^ Loos, Ted (6 March 2020). "The Met's Just-Opened Galleries Cast a New Light on British Decorative Arts". 1stDibs Introspective. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  6. ^ "Online Lecture | Wolf Burchard on The Met's New British Galleries". Enfilade. 13 June 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  7. ^ "Metropolitan Museum Unveils Plans For New British Decorative Arts Galleries". Artlyst. 9 November 2019. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  8. ^ Saenger, Peter (23 January 2020). "A New Look at Britain's Old Treasures". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ "The New British Galleries: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin". The Met Museum. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  12. ^ "Author: Wolf Burchard". Apollo Magazine. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  13. ^ ROWELL, CHRISTOPHER; BURCHARD, WOLF (2017). "THE BRITISH EMBASSY AT PALAIS STARHEMBERG: FURNITURE FROM THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA AT MOUNT STEWART". Furniture History. 53: 191–223. ISSN 0016-3058. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  14. ^ Burchard, Wolf (17 October 2018). "Neil MacGregor: why the Humboldt Forum is 'an amazing opportunity to attract new audiences'". www.theartnewspaper.com. Archived from the original on 26 July 2021. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
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