Rudy Burckhardt
The Swiss American photographer and filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt was a robust contributor to the New York art scene as a documentarian and participant, from 1935 until the end of the century. Burckhardt witnessed and photographed the birth and rise of such groups as the Abstract Expressionists and the New York School. In his own work Burckhardt captured quotidian moments of the city, its people, the demolition & construction of its changing neighborhoods. He brings an acute eye to his random yet formal & playful compositions. Amidst the quantities of photographs Rudy shot, several of them are some of the most iconic of New York City, such as the Flatiron Building, The Brooklyn Waterfront, Queens and the water towers of Chelsea rooftops.
The work of Rudy Burckhardt has been extensively exhibited in galleries and museums both nationally and internationally in such institutions as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria, Fotostiftung Schweitz, Winterthur, Switzerland and the Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland. Many of his works are now in these permanent collections. Given the breadth of Rudy’s documentation of New York City and its artists, Burckhardt’s photographs have been reproduced hundreds of times for …
The Swiss American photographer and filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt was a robust contributor to the New York art scene as a documentarian and participant, from 1935 until the end of the century. Burckhardt witnessed and photographed the birth and rise of such groups as the Abstract Expressionists and the New York School. In his own work Burckhardt captured quotidian moments of the city, its people, the demolition & construction of its changing neighborhoods. He brings an acute eye to his random yet formal & playful compositions. Amidst the quantities of photographs Rudy shot, several of them are some of the most iconic of New York City, such as the Flatiron Building, The Brooklyn Waterfront, Queens and the water towers of Chelsea rooftops.
The work of Rudy Burckhardt has been extensively exhibited in galleries and museums both nationally and internationally in such institutions as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria, Fotostiftung Schweitz, Winterthur, Switzerland and the Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland. Many of his works are now in these permanent collections. Given the breadth of Rudy’s documentation of New York City and its artists, Burckhardt’s photographs have been reproduced hundreds of times for commercial and academic purposes.
