Professional Affiliation

Chief Curator, Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens

Expert Bio

Dr. Wilfried Zeisler is Hillwood’s chief curator. He is a graduate of Sorbonne University and the Ecole du Louvre, Paris. Wilfried has written extensively on French and Russian decorative arts, including a 2010 book on ceramics and several articles. Wilfried’s dissertation, L’Objet d’art et de luxe français en Russie (1881-1917) [French Objets d’art and Luxury Goods in Russia], was published in Paris in 2014. Between 2009 and 2011, he has participated in and curated exhibitions in Paris and Monaco.

At Hillwood, he has curated Splendor and Surprise: Elegant Containers, Antique to Modern (2015), Konstantin Makovsky: The Tsar's Painter (2016) and contributed to Friends and Fashion: An American Diplomat in 1820s Russia (2017) and The Artistic Table (2018). Wilfried co-authored Konstantin Makovsky: The Tsar's Painter in America and Paris (2015). He is the author of Fabergé Rediscovered, a book on Hillwood’s Fabergé collection that will accompany Hillwood’s exhibition on the latter topic in June 2018.