Burckhardt

American  

[burk-hahrt, boork-hahrt] / ˈbɜrk hɑrt, ˈbʊərkˌhɑrt /

noun

1. Jakob 1818–97, Swiss historian.

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Burckhardt British  

/ ˈbʊrkhart /

noun

1. Jacob Christoph . 1818–97, Swiss art and cultural historian; author of The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)

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Example Sentences

Since graduating from Cooper Union in 1948 and becoming the only female founding member of the artists-run Tanager Gallery in 1952 — giving an early platform to Rudy Burckhardt, Al Held and Tom Wesselmann — Dodd has been a continuous presence in the New York art world, admired by her peers as well as her students at Brooklyn College, where she taught for two decades.

From New York Times

Paola Antonelli, a senior curator at the museum, and Anna Burckhardt, a curatorial assistant at the museum, will talk about the sustainability and life cycles of clothing and answer questions from the audience.

From New York Times

The inventory of gifts and trades from other close friends includes works by Amy Sillman, Allen Ruppersberg, Tom Burckhardt, Byron Kim and Kurt Hoffman.

From New York Times

Denby and the filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt are immortalized in one of the cutout-metal sculptural portraits that Katz started doing in the late fifties; they sit on folding chairs in his West Broadway loft, facing one another, deep in a discussion, so convincing that for a moment I thought they were real.

From The New Yorker

They were made in Italy, to which Schloss decamped for good in 1964, after about 18 years of marriage to the photographer/filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt and active participation in the nascent downtown New York art scene.

From New York Times