Wolf Burchard Explained

Wolf Burchard is a British-German art historian and museum curator. He joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in 2019.

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 Metropolitan Museum of Art's first ever exhibit devoted to Walt Disney, which was subsequently shown at the Wallace Collection in London and the Huntington Museum in San Marino, California.^{[10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]} Burchard led the 22 million dollar renovation of the Met's British Galleries, of which the re-opening 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. In 2022, he received the Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation's Visionary Award in recognition of contributions to curatorial practice and the history of art and architecture. In October 2023, Burchard was appointed a Chevalier dans l’ordre des arts et des lettres.

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] [23]}
• "Savonnerie Reviewed: Charles Le Brun and the 'Grand tapis de pied d'ouvrage à la Turque' woven for the Grande Galerie at the Louvre", Furniture History (2012): 1-43.
• "Royal Remains" (What’s the point of rebuilding Germany’s palaces?), Apollo: The International Art Magazine (March 2016): 146–152^[24]
• "Game of Thrones" (Royal Thrones through the Ages), Apollo: The International Art Magazine (March 2018): 162–166
• "Don’t Pull the Rug From Under Our Feet!" (Historic Carpets in English Country Houses), Country Life (December 2018): 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): 5–29^[25]

Burchard is a regular contributor to Apollo Magazine, The Art Newspaper and Furniture History.^{[26] [27] [28]}

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.^[29]

External links

• Met Museum Staff Profile

Notes and References

1. Web site: Vortrag in Celle: Wie London die Personalunion feiert. 2021-11-08. CZ – Cellesche Zeitung. de.
2. News: Meet the National Trust's Furniture Research Curator, Supported by Royal Oak . 2 August 2021 . The Royal Oak Foundation . 14 October 2015.
3. News: Stamp . Agnes . Cotswolds Number . 3 August 2021 . Country Life . 13 September 2017 . en.
4. Web site: Inspiring Walt Disney . 2021-10-29 . The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
5. Web site: 2021-12-23. The European Rococo Style That Inspired Walt Disney. 2022-01-03. National Review. en-US.
6. News: Budick. Ariella. 2021-12-20. Inspiring Walt Disney at the Met — from Meissen to the Magic Kingdom. Financial Times. 2022-01-03.
7. Web site: 2021-12-18. Centuries-old art behind Disney's best animated films arrives at the Met. 2022-01-03. New York Post. en-US.
8. Web site: Jacqui Palumbo. The European art and architecture that inspired iconic Disney films. 2022-01-03. CNN. en.
9. Web site: 2021-12-09. Walt Disney's Secret Inspiration? French Decorative Arts. 2022-01-03. Architectural Digest. en-US.
10. News: Januszczak . Waldemar . Inspiring Walt Disney at the Wallace Collection — the surprising links between French rococo and Frozen . . en . 2022-04-25 . 0140-0460.
11. Web site: Freeman . Laura . Disney's rococo roots The Spectator . 2022-04-25 . www.spectator.co.uk . en.
12. Web site: 2022-04-03 . Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts review – brilliant and bewitching . 2022-04-08 . the Guardian . en.
13. News: Davies . Lucy . 2022-04-02 . Inspiring Walt Disney, Wallace Collection, review: how French rococo gave us American cartoons . en-GB . The Telegraph . 2022-04-08 . 0307-1235.
14. Book: Burchard . Wolf . Inspiring Walt Disney . 2021 . 9781588397416 . 2 August 2021 . en.
15. News: Rizzo . Cailey . A Disney Exhibit Is Headed To the Met at the End of 2021 . 2 August 2021 . Travel + Leisure . 30 June 2021 . en.
16. News: Loos . Ted . The Met's Just-Opened Galleries Cast a New Light on British Decorative Arts . 10 August 2021 . 1stDibs Introspective . 6 March 2020 . en.
17. Web site: Online Lecture Wolf Burchard on The Met's New British Galleries . Enfilade . 2 August 2021 . en . 13 June 2020.
18. News: Metropolitan Museum Unveils Plans For New British Decorative Arts Galleries . 2 August 2021 . Artlyst . 9 November 2019.
19. News: Saenger . Peter . A New Look at Britain's Old Treasures . 2 August 2021 . Wall Street Journal . 23 January 2020.
20. News: Kenney . Nancy . In the Met's British galleries, a tale of artisans spurred by entrepreneurial forces . 2 August 2021 . The Art Newspaper . 27 February 2020 . en.
21. Bensoussan . Nicole . The Sovereign Artist: Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis XIV. Wolf Burchard. London: Paul Holberton, 2016. 288 pp. £40. . Renaissance Quarterly . 2019 . 72 . 2 . 619–620 . 10.1017/rqx.2019.148 . 233345884 . 3 August 2021 . en . 0034-4338.
22. Web site: Inspiring Walt Disney Yale University Press. 2021-10-29. yalebooks.yale.edu.
23. News: Penny . Nicholas . 2022-10-06 . At the Wallace Collection . en . 44 . London Review of Books . 19 . 2022-10-03 . 0260-9592.
24. Web site: 2016-03-10. What's the point of rebuilding Germany's palaces?. 2021-10-29. Apollo Magazine. en-US.
25. Web site: The New British Galleries: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin . The Met Museum . 10 August 2021.
26. Web site: Author: Wolf Burchard . Apollo Magazine . 3 August 2021.
27. ROWELL . CHRISTOPHER . BURCHARD . WOLF . The British Embassy at Palais Starhemberg: Furniture from the Congress of Vienna at Mount Stewart . Furniture History . 2017 . 53 . 191–223 . 45135810 . 10 August 2021 . 0016-3058.
28. News: Burchard . Wolf . Neil MacGregor: why the Humboldt Forum is 'an amazing opportunity to attract new audiences' . 10 August 2021 . www.theartnewspaper.com . 17 October 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210726135908/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/interview/why-the-new-space-is-an-amazing-opportunity-to-attract-new-audiences . 26 July 2021 . en.
29. Book: McCarthy, Fiona . Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus . Faber & Faber . 2019 . London.