Ewa Lajer-Burcharth (born in Warsaw) is a Polish

art historian Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

and William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University and Senior Adviser to the humanities program at the

Radcliffe Institute The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University—also known as the Harvard Radcliffe Institute—is a part of Harvard University that fosters interdisciplinary research across the humanities, sciences, social sciences, arts, a ...

. Her specialties include 18th-century French and contemporary art.

Career

A native of Warsaw, Lajer-Burcharth received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center at the

City University of New York The City University of New York ( CUNY; , ) is the Public university, public university system of Education in New York City, New York City. It is the largest urban university system in the United States, comprising 25 campuses: eleven Upper divis ...

and her M.A. from the University of Warsaw in Poland. In 1999, Lajer-Burcharth published ''Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David After the Terror''. In 2000, she received a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

for Fine Arts Research. In 2009-2010, she was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. In 2011, she published her second book ''Chardin Material''.

Works

* ''Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David After the Terror'' (1999) * ''Chardin Material'' (2011) * ''The Painter's Touch: Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard'' (2018)

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at Harvard University 1968 births Living people Polish art historians University of Warsaw alumni CUNY Graduate Center alumni Harvard University faculty Harvard University Department of History faculty Polish women academics Women art historians {{Poland-historian-stub