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Wolf Burchard

Wolf Burchard, PhD FSA is a British-German art historian and museum curator. He is Curator in Charge of the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Life and career

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Burchard joined The Met's Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts (ESDA) in 2019, and was appointed its Curator in Charge in 2026.[1] 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, shown at the then Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace to mark the tercentenary of the Hanoverian succession.[2] At the National Trust, he led the digital cataloguing of the trust's collection of 55,000 pieces of furniture.[3][4]

Burchard oversaw the completion of the 22-million dollar renovation of the Met's British Galleries, of which the re-opening in February 2020 launched the museum's 150th anniversary celebrations.[5][6][7][8][9] In 2021, he curated Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts,[10][11][12][13][14][15] 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.[16][17][18][19][20][21] The UK-based art critic Waldemar Januszczak wrote of the show: "Modern curation is usually a case of following trends, not setting them. But occasionally an exhibition turns up that is so inventive, so different, you did not see it coming. Exactly such a show is Inspiring Walt Disney at the Wallace Collection."[22]

In February 2026, Burchard co-curated a Savonnerie carpet exhibition with the Mobilier national at the Grand Palais in Paris. Entitled Le Trésor retrouvé du Roi-Soleil, the show surprisingly attracted almost 90.000 visitors during its short, one-week run.[23][24]

Personal life

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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.[25][26]

Publications

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  • Picture Democracy, Thornwillow Press, Newburgh 2026[27]
  • The Sovereign Artist: Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis XIV, Paul Holberton Publishing, London 2016[28]
  • Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, New York and New Haven 2021[29][30]
  • "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.
  • "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[31]
  • "Royal Remains" (What’s the point of rebuilding Germany’s palaces?), Apollo: The International Art Magazine (March 2016): 146–152[32]
  • "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

Burchard is a regular contributor to Apollo Magazine, The Art Newspaper and Furniture History.[33][34][35]

References

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  1. ↑ "Met Museum Press Release: The Met Appoints Wolf Burchard as Curator in Charge of the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Art". August 2026. {{cite news}}: Check |archive-url= value (help)
  2. ↑ "Vortrag in Celle: Wie London die Personalunion feiert". CZ – Cellesche Zeitung (in German). Archived from the original on 8 November 2021. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  3. ↑ "Meet the National Trust's Furniture Research Curator, Supported by Royal Oak". The Royal Oak Foundation. 14 October 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  4. ↑ Stamp, Agnes (13 September 2017). "Cotswolds Number". Country Life. Retrieved 3 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. ↑ "Inspiring Walt Disney". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  11. ↑ "The European Rococo Style That Inspired Walt Disney". National Review. 23 December 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  12. ↑ Budick, Ariella (20 December 2021). "Inspiring Walt Disney at the Met — from Meissen to the Magic Kingdom". Financial Times. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  13. ↑ "Centuries-old art behind Disney's best animated films arrives at the Met". New York Post. 18 December 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  14. ↑ Jacqui Palumbo (30 December 2021). "The European art and architecture that inspired iconic Disney films". CNN. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  15. ↑ "Walt Disney's Secret Inspiration? French Decorative Arts". Architectural Digest. 9 December 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  16. ↑ Januszczak, Waldemar. "Inspiring Walt Disney at the Wallace Collection — the surprising links between French rococo and Frozen". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  17. ↑ Freeman, Laura (21 April 2022). "Disney's rococo roots | The Spectator". www.spectator.co.uk. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  18. ↑ "Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts review – brilliant and bewitching". the Guardian. 3 April 2022. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  19. ↑ Davies, Lucy (2 April 2022). "Inspiring Walt Disney, Wallace Collection, review: how French rococo gave us American cartoons". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  20. ↑ Burchard, Wolf (2021). Inspiring Walt Disney. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 9781588397416. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  21. ↑ Rizzo, Cailey (30 June 2021). "A Disney Exhibit Is Headed To the Met at the End of 2021". Travel + Leisure. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  22. ↑ Waldemar (16 May 2022). "Inspiring Walt Disney at the Wallace Collection — the surprising links between French rococo and Frozen". Waldemar Januszczak. Retrieved 11 June 2026.
  23. ↑ Behrens, Edward (6 February 2026). "Carpets fit for the Sun King". Apollo Magazine. Retrieved 11 June 2026.
  24. ↑ Media, Surface (5 February 2026). "At Paris' Grand Palais, 32 Louis XIV Carpets Finally Make Their Debut". SURFACE. Retrieved 11 June 2026.
  25. ↑ McCarthy, Fiona (2019). Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus. London: Faber & Faber.
  26. ↑ Following Footprints Media (1 May 2026). Bauhaus Legacy | Gropius Family History — Wolf Burchard Interview. Retrieved 11 June 2026 – via YouTube.
  27. ↑ "Picture Democracy". Thornwillow Press. Retrieved 11 June 2026.
  28. ↑ 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. S2CID 233345884. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  29. ↑ "Inspiring Walt Disney | Yale University Press". yalebooks.yale.edu. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  30. ↑ Penny, Nicholas (6 October 2022). "At the Wallace Collection". London Review of Books. Vol. 44, no. 19. ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  31. ↑ "The New British Galleries: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin". The Met Museum. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  32. ↑ "What's the point of rebuilding Germany's palaces?". Apollo Magazine. 10 March 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2021.
  33. ↑ "Author: Wolf Burchard". Apollo Magazine. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  34. ↑ 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. JSTOR 45135810. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  35. ↑ 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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