Rudy Burckhardt
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Rudy Burckhardt | |
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Basel, Switzerland | |
Died | August 1, 1999 , U.S. | (aged 85)
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Years active | 1935–1999 |
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Children | 2, including Burckhardt family |
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Rudy Burckhardt (
né Rudolph August Burckhardt; April 6, 1914 – August 1, 1999) was a Swiss-American filmmaker, and photographer, known for his photographs of the hand-painted billboards that began to dominate the American landscape in the 1940s and 1950s.[1][2][3] He was married to Edith Schloss and Yvonne Jacquette. His youngest son is artist Tom Burckhardt
.
Life
Burckhardt was a member of the Swiss
Signal Corps from 1941–1944, he filmed the island's residents. In 1947, he joined the Photo League in New York City. Burckhardt married painter Yvonne Jacquette (1934-2023) whom he collaborated with throughout their 40-year marriage. During the mid-Fifties he worked with Joseph Cornell on "The Aviary", "Nymphlight", "A Fable For Fountains", and "What Mozart Saw On Mulberry Street".[5] He taught filmmaking and painting at the University of Pennsylvania from 1967 to 1975. He was the great-uncle of author Andreas Burckhardt
.
Burckhardt committed suicide by drowning in the lake on his property.[6][7]
Exhibitions (selection)
- October 25, 2014 – February 15, 2015 "Rudy Burckhardt – In the Jungle of the Big City"[8] at Fotostiftung Schweiz[9]
- November 4, 2011 – March 25, 2012 "The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936–1951"Jewish Museum (New York)
- September 23, 2008 – January 4, 2009 "New York, N. Why? Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937–1940"[11] at Metropolitan Museum of Art
- February 1, 2008 – May 14, 2008 "Street Dance: The New York Photographs of Rudy Burckhardt"[12] at Museum of the City of New York
- May 9 – July 15, 2000 "Rudy Burckhardt and Friends: New York Artists of the 1950s and '60s"[13] at New York University
References
- ^ "Rudy Burckhardt's Maine". nyss.org. Archived from the original on 2009-11-13.
- ^ Glueck, Grace (May 30, 2003). "ART IN REVIEW; Rudy Burckhardt". The New York Times.
- ^ Francis, Mark, ed. (2005). Pop. London: Phaidon Press Limited. p. 45.
- ^ Katz, Vincent. ""Rudy Burckhardt: A Biographical Sketch"". www.vincentkatz.net. Retrieved October 31, 2023.
- ^ "Obituary: Rudy Burckhardt". The Independent. October 23, 2011.
- ^ "Subterranean Monument". artnet.com.
- ^ Smith, Roberta (August 4, 1999). "Rudy Burckhardt, 85, Photographer and Filmmaker, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
- ^ "Fotostiftung: Rudy Burckhardt". www.fotostiftung.ch. Archived from the original on 2014-12-18.
- ^ "Fotostiftung Schweiz".
- ^ "The Jewish Museum". Archived from the original on 2012-12-09.
- ^ "New York, N. Why?".
- ^ "Street Dance | Museum of the City of New York". www.mcny.org. Retrieved 2023-10-31.
- ^ "Grey Art Gallery".
External links
- "The Cinema of Looking", Jacket 21
- http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/b/rudy_burckhardt/index.html
- http://www.film-makerscoop.com/search/search.php?author=Rudolph+Burckhardt
- http://www.milkmag.org/burckhardt%20page.htm
- http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2002/burckhardt/
- http://www.tibordenagy.com/artists/rudy-burckhardt/Burckhardt. Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine
- "Burckhardt, Rudy". SIKART Lexicon on art in Switzerland.
- Audio recording of Rudy Burckhardt Lecture, 1992, from Maryland Institute College of Art's Decker Library, Internet Archive
- Copyright permissions for Rudy Burckhardt, from the WATCH File