Rudy Burckhardt

The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is photography and film. Employment is recorded with University of Pennsylvania. Work by Rudy Burckhardt is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Swiss Foundation for Photography, Kunstmuseum Basel, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

• Name — Rudy Burckhardt • Birth Name — Rudolph August Burckhardt • Born — 6 April 1914 • Birthplace — Basel, Switzerland • Died — 1 August 1999 • Place of death — Searsmont, Maine, U.S. • Occupation — * Photographer • filmmaker • Years Active — 1935–1999 • Children — 2, including Tom • Relatives — Burckhardt family

Burckhardt was a member of the Swiss patrician Burckhardt family. He discovered photography as a medical student in London. He left medicine to pursue photography in the 1930s. He immigrated to New York City in 1935.[4] Between 1934 and 1939, he traveled to Paris, New York, and Haiti making photographs mostly of city streets and experimenting with short 16mm films. While stationed in Trinidad in the 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 killed himself in 1999.[6][7]

• October 25, 2014 – February 15, 2015 "Rudy Burckhardt – In the Jungle of the Big City"[8] at[9] Fotostiftung Schweiz • November 4, 2011 – March 25, 2012 "The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936–1951"[10] at 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

Rudy Burckhardt is recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded as photographer, filmmaker, film director, poet and writer. Recognition and collections.