ABOUT ANDREW
Andrew Woelflein is an independent scholar, military art historian, author, and public speaker. He served as a Trustee of the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection at Brown University, from 1996 - 2024. He was the Presiding Trustee from 2013-2022.
The Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection is the foremost American collection of material devoted to the history and iconography of soldiers and soldiering, and is one of the world’s largest collections devoted to the study of military and naval uniforms. It was formed over a period of forty years by Mrs. Anne S.K. Brown (1906-1985) of Providence and is still growing.
Andrew speaks widely on the Collection and its broad range of soldier-artists to various historical and other groups. He has sourced art and related material from donors for the Collection. In 2014 and 2017 Woelflein initiated WWI centennial exhibits at the President Woodrow Wilson House in Washington, DC and the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri that used period art from the Collection.
Woelflein’s book, Herbert Knotel’s German Armies in Color was published in 2007 and features Knotel artwork from the ASKB Collection covering 17th to 20th century German Armies.
He is currently working on a historical espionage thriller inspired by a little-known chapter of Civil War history. The book weaves real people, places, and events into a fictional covert operation hidden within the historical record. The story draws on the documented presence of Confederate political, diplomatic, and commercial elites who used Flat Rock, North Carolina as a summer refuge, anchored by the actual, surprising correspondence between a local physician and Otto von Bismarck.
The novel combines the gritty military authenticity and behind-enemy-lines espionage of Bernard Cornwell's Copperhead, the covert-action suspense of David McCloskey's Damascus Station, and the richly textured historical canvas of James Lee Burke's Flags on the Bayou.
Andrew Woelflein is a graduate of Brown University, with a major in European History, and the Harvard Business School. He lives in the US and has also lived in France, Canada, United Kingdom, and Japan. Andrew had a successful 30 year career in financial services prior to focusing on his military art history and writing passions.
In his free time Andrew enjoys reading books on a variety of topics including British, Roman, and American history, action-packed historical fiction novels, and personal narratives of people with connection to wherever he will travel to next. On vacation Andrew enjoys exploring castles, visiting war museums, and hiking. He enjoys exploring the rich history and nature of his local Blue Ridge Mountains with his wife, two adult children, and all their doodle and poodle dogs.
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