Background
Burda was the second son of publisher Franz Burda and his wife Aenne Burda.
publishing executive art collector
Burda was the second son of publisher Franz Burda and his wife Aenne Burda.
After finishing school in Offenburg, Triberg and Switzerland, he completed a print and a publishing qualification. Burda was trained in his father"s business group. Later he lived in France and became a magazine publisher.
He spent several years in England and the United States before becoming a printer in Darmstadt.
He developed his company into one of the leading commercial print foundries in Europe. A major art collector, in 2004 he opened Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden, in a €20 million building designed by architect Richard Meier.