Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt

Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt
Born
Kathleen Weil-Garris

(1934-04-07) April 7, 1934
OccupationArt historian
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (1975)
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisThe Santa Casa di Loreto: Problems in Italian Sixteenth-Century Sculpture (1965)
Academic work
DisciplineArt history
Sub-disciplineRenaissance art
InstitutionsNew York University

Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt (née Weil-Garris; born April 7, 1934), also known as Kathleen Weil-Garris Posner,[1] is an American art historian. She served as a professor at New York University for decades, and has authored several books on Renaissance art. She was the 1997-1998 Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford, as well as a 1975 Guggenheim Fellow.

Biography

Weil-Garris was born on April 7, 1934, abroad in Europe,[2][a] and raised in the United States.[4] She was the daughter of Charlotte Garris and aviation engineer Kurt H. Weil,[5] both German.[4]

Weil-Garris obtained a BA at Vassar College in 1956, and after spending a year studying at the University of Bonn (1956–1957), obtained an MA from Radcliffe College in 1958 and a PhD from Harvard University in 1965.[2] Her doctoral dissertation was titled The Santa Casa di Loreto: Problems in Italian Sixteenth-Century Sculpture.[1] While at Vassar, she lived with Ayla Karacabey.[4] She taught "The Age of Michelangelo", a 1965 Sunrise Semester course.[3]

In 1963, Weil-Garris joined the New York University Department of Fine Art.[1] Originally starting as adjunct assistant professor of fine arts, she was promoted to assistant professor in 1965, associate professor in 1967, and full professor in 1973,[2] remaining as such for more than two decades.[6] She was part of the College Art Association of America board of directors from 1973 to 1974.[2] She was a 1985 Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Visiting Senior Fellow.[1] She was the 1997-1998 Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford.[7]

Weil-Garris was author of the books Leonardo and Central Italian Art, 1515-1550 (1974) and The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation of Architecture (1993).[1] In 1975,[8] she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship "for a study of Baccio Bandinelli and the art of his time",[2] and she was a 1976 Resident of the American Academy in Rome.[9] She and James S. Ackerman produced a film named Looking for Renaissance Rome (1976).[1] She was the editor-in-chief for The Art Bulletin from 1977 to 1981.[1] By 1990, the Vatican City later hired her as a Renaissance art consultant.[10] She co-edited an exhibition catalogue for the 1999-2000 exhibition La giovinezza di Michelangelo.[11]

In October 1995, while visiting the Payne Whitney House for a French art exhibition, Weil-Garris attributed a marble statue there as a Michelangelo one.[6][1][12] John Russell of The New York Times once said that this would be "Manhattan's only sculpture by Michelangelo",[12] and Carey Lovelace of Newsday remarked that it would be "the only Michelangelo statue in the Western Hemisphere".[13] This identification has been the subject of controversy, with several other art historians providing doubts on it.[1][14]

Weil-Garris was married to art historian Donald Posner – whom she met during her time at Harvard – from 1962 until their divorce.[1][15] She then married physicist Werner Brandt in 1983; they remained married until his death that same year.[16]

Works

  • Leonardo and Central Italian Art, 1515-1550 (1974)[17]
  • (with John F. D'Amico) The Renaissance Cardinal's Ideal Palace: A Chapter from Cortesi's De Cardinalatu (1980)[18]
  • The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation of Architecture (1993)[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Sources differ if she was born in the French commune of Châtellerault[1] or the English county of Surrey.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Weil-Garris, Kathleen". Dictionary of Art Historians. Retrieved March 7, 2026.
  2. ^ a b c d e Reports of the President and the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1973. p. 114.
  3. ^ a b "'Sunrise Semester' Sets Course On Michelangelo And Science". 'Sunrise Semester' Sets Course On Michelangelo And Science. May 1, 1965. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ a b c Brockett, Omeda (December 8, 1957). "Slimming and Good". The Virginian-Pilot. p. 66.
  5. ^ "Kurt Weil, 96, Dies; Professor at Stevens". New York Times. January 8, 1992. p. D19. ProQuest 428368270.
  6. ^ a b "Art, Lost and Found". The New York Times. January 27, 1996. p. 20. ProQuest 109593650.
  7. ^ Oxford Slade Professors – History of Art Department Archived 2015-02-13 at the Wayback Machine, Oxford University
  8. ^ "Kathleen Weil-Garris". Guggenheim Fellowships. Retrieved March 7, 2026.
  9. ^ "All Fellows". American Academy in Rome. Retrieved March 9, 2026.
  10. ^ "Michelangelo's Nudes Destroyed by Censors, Restorers Announce". Los Angeles Times. April 4, 1990. p. 8. ProQuest 281060562.
  11. ^ Campbell, Stephen J. (2000). "Review of La giovinezza di Michelangelo. Exhibition at Palazzo Vecchio and Casa Buonarotti, Florence, 6 October 1999–9 January 2000. Catalogue edited by Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt, Cristina Acidini Luchinat, James Draper, and Nicholas Penny. Florence and Milan: ArtificioSkira, 1999". Renaissance Studies. 14 (3): 362–366. ISSN 0269-1213. JSTOR 24412873.
  12. ^ a b Russell, John (January 23, 1996). "A Michelangelo on 5th Ave.? It Seems So". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on July 31, 2021. Retrieved July 30, 2021.
  13. ^ Lovelace, Carey (January 29, 1996). "A Michelangelo Uncovered". Newsday. p. 62. Archived from the original on July 31, 2021. Retrieved July 31, 2021 – via newspapers.com.
  14. ^ White, Renee Minus (November 5, 2009). "Marble sculpture from Michelangelo at the Met". New York Amsterdam News. p. 16. ProQuest 390234358.
  15. ^ "Posner, Donald". Dictionary of Art Historians. March 8, 2026. Retrieved March 7, 2026.
  16. ^ "Dr. Werner Brandt, 57, Led N.Y.U. Physics Lab". New York Times. January 6, 1983. p. B22. ProQuest 424538493.
  17. ^ Wasserman, Jack (1978). "Review of Leonardo and Central Italian Art: 1515-1550". The Burlington Magazine. 120 (899): 98–98. ISSN 0007-6287. JSTOR 879108.
  18. ^ Waddy, Patricia (1983). "Review of The Renaissance Cardinal's Ideal Palace: A Chapter from Cortesi's De Cardinalatu". Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 42 (4): 399–400. doi:10.2307/989934. ISSN 0037-9808. JSTOR 989934.
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