Tom E. Burckhardt (born May 2, 1964) is an American artist and painter based in New York City.
[2] Burckhardt was born May 2, 1964, in New York City, the youngest son of Rudy Burckhardt, a Swiss-born photographer and filmmaker, and Yvonne Jacquette, a painter from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
[3][4][5] He had an older half-brother, Jacob who was born in 1949 from the prior marriage of his father to Edith Schloss.
Through his father he is a descendant of the patrician family Burckhardt of Basel, Switzerland.
[6] Burckhard is married to artist Kathy Butterly.