Wolf Burchard

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

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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

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]

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