Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt

Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt
Born
Kathleen Weil-Garris

(1934-04-07) April 7, 1934
Châtellerault, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France or Surrey, United Kingdom
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-discipline
Renaissance art
InstitutionsNew York University

Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt (née Weil-Garris, formerly Posner;[1] born April 7, 1934) 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, 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 titled 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]

The Young Archer attributed by Weil-Garris to Michelangelo

In October 1995, while visiting the Payne Whitney House for a French art exhibition, Weil-Garris attributed a small marble statue there to Michelangelo.[1][6][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 art historians Leo Steinberg and James Beck expressing doubts over the attribution.[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 as to whether she was born in the French commune of Châtellerault[1] or the English county of Surrey.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 "Weil-Garris, Kathleen". Dictionary of Art Historians. Retrieved March 7, 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Reports of the President and the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1973. p. 114.
  3. 1 2 "'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. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 "Art, Lost and Found". The New York Times. January 27, 1996. p. 20. ProQuest 109593650.
  7. ↑ Oxford Slade Professors – History of Art Department Archived February 13, 2015, 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. 1 2 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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