Rudy Burckhardt

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Rudy Burckhardt
Basel, Switzerland
DiedAugust 1, 1999(1999-08-01) (aged 85)
, U.S.
Nationality
  • American
  • Swiss
Occupations
  • Photographer
  • filmmaker
Years active1935–1999
Spouses
(m. 1947; div. 1961)
(m. 1964)
Children2, including
Burckhardt family
Signature

Rudy Burckhardt (

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 [de][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

  1. ^ "Rudy Burckhardt's Maine". nyss.org. Archived from the original on 2009-11-13.
  2. ^ Glueck, Grace (May 30, 2003). "ART IN REVIEW; Rudy Burckhardt". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Francis, Mark, ed. (2005). Pop. London: Phaidon Press Limited. p. 45.
  4. ^ Katz, Vincent. ""Rudy Burckhardt: A Biographical Sketch"". www.vincentkatz.net. Retrieved October 31, 2023.
  5. ^ "Obituary: Rudy Burckhardt". The Independent. October 23, 2011.
  6. ^ "Subterranean Monument". artnet.com.
  7. ^ Smith, Roberta (August 4, 1999). "Rudy Burckhardt, 85, Photographer and Filmmaker, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved October 29, 2014.
  8. ^ "Fotostiftung: Rudy Burckhardt". www.fotostiftung.ch. Archived from the original on 2014-12-18.
  9. ^ "Fotostiftung Schweiz".
  10. ^ "The Jewish Museum". Archived from the original on 2012-12-09.
  11. ^ "New York, N. Why?".
  12. ^ "Street Dance | Museum of the City of New York". www.mcny.org. Retrieved 2023-10-31.
  13. ^ "Grey Art Gallery".

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