Alexander von Reitzenstein

Alexander Ernst Carl Heinrich Freiherr von Reitzenstein (born May 15, 1904 in Scheinfeld , † April 16, 1986 in Eggstätt ) was a German art historian and weapons expert . From 1965 to 1969 he was director of the Bavarian Army Museum .

Life

Alexander Freiherr von Reitzenstein comes from the Franconian noble family of the von Reitzenstein family . He was born in 1904 as the son of a former district judge and his wife in Scheinfeld in Central Franconia. From 1924 he studied art history in Berlin, Würzburg and Munich. In 1928 he was at Wilhelm Pinder at the Institute of Art History at the University of Munich with a thesis on The Clemens grave in the cathedral at Bamberg to Dr. phil. ( summa cum laude ) doctorate. The work appeared a year later in the Munich Yearbook of Fine Arts . After his studies, he volunteered in the State Art Collections in Munich and in the inventory of art monuments of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

In 1936 Hans Stöcklein brought him to the Bavarian Army Museum as chief curator, where he worked until 1945. From 1940 the museum was administered by the Wehrmacht , making him an army officer. After being a prisoner of war in 1947, he took over the administration of the Army Museum, which was closed by the Allied military administration. In 1949 it was initially attached to the Bavarian National Museum in Munich as the “Bavarian Army Museum” department . Von Reitzenstein was primarily responsible for the conservation of stocks. From 1965 to 1969 he was director of the Bavarian Army Museum, which it was decided to re-establish in 1963. In 1967 he played a key role in the founding of the Friends' Association. At the end of the 1960s the museum moved to Ingolstadt , with Alexander von Reitzenstein being supported by his successor Peter Jaeckel .

Alexander von Reitzenstein dealt with historical knowledge of the country and arms ; he was particularly interested in armor . The art historian Lorenz Seelig described him as a weapons specialist. In 1959 he was responsible for the revival of the trade journal Waffen- und Costumekunde , which he then edited with the art historian Margarete Braun-Ronsdorf . From 1959 to 1980 he was the responsible editor for the weapons section and until 1986 a consultant for the magazine. He was u. a. Author of the real lexicon on German art history and the New German Biography and contributor to the book series Die Kunstdenkmäler von Bayern .

In 1971 he received the Bavarian Order of Merit .

Alexander von Reitzenstein, Catholic, was married.

Fonts (selection)

• Ottheinrich of the Palatinate . Angelsachsen-Verlag, Bremen u. a. 1938.
• Francs . Prestel, Munich 1953. (5th revised and expanded edition 1971)
• Early history around Munich . Prestel, Munich 1956.
• German architecture. The history of their styles (= Reclams Universal Library . No. 7838/7840). Reclam, Stuttgart 1956. (6th edition 1981)
• Reclam's art guide . Volume 1: Bavaria (= Reclams Universal Library . 8055/8072). Reclam, Stuttgart 1957 (9th revised and expanded edition 1983: Bavaria North and Bavaria South )
• The Main (= German land, German art ). Recordings by Leo Gundermann, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich a. a. 1960.
• Bamberg (= Great Art Guide . Vol. 32). Schnell & Steiner, Munich a. a. 1960. (6th edition 1979)
• German sculpture of the early and high Gothic (= the blue books ). Recordings by Helga Schmidt-Glassner , Langewiesche, Königstein 1962.
• Old Bavarian cities . Prestel, Munich 1963.
• The armorer. From the craft of swordsmiths, armorer and gunsmiths (= pictures from the German past . Vol. 23). Prestel, Munich 1964.
• Ingolstadt . Published by the Friends of the Bavarian National Museum , Callwey, Munich 1967.
• The old Bavarian city. In the models of the master turner Jakob Sandtner , made in the years 1568–1574 on behalf of Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria . Published by the Friends of the Bavarian National Museum, Callwey, Munich 1967.
• Knighthood and knighthood (= pictures from the German past . Vol. 32). Prestel, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-7913-0032-6 .
• The history of Bamberg Cathedral from its beginnings to its completion in the 13th century . Prestel, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-7913-0666-9 .
• The path of German sculpture from the early to the late Middle Ages . H. v. Reitzenstein, Eggstätt 1994.

literature

• Ernst Aichner : Alexander von Reitzenstein † . In: Waffen- und Costumekunde 28 (1986) 1, p. 84.
• Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? . The German who's who . 21st edition, Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1981, ISBN 3-7950-2002-6 , p. 982.
• Theodor Müller : Alexander Freiherr von Reitzenstein on his 80th birthday . In: Waffen- und Costumekunde 26 (1984) 1, pp. 1–2.
• Gretel Wagner: Alexander Freiherr von Reitzenstein, May 15, 1904 to April 16, 1986. In: Waffen- und Costumekunde 29 (1987), pp. 1–2.

Web links

• Literature by and about Alexander von Reitzenstein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by Alexander Freiherr von Reitzenstein in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See on this Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility . Volume 21 (Freiherrliche Häuser A, Volume III). Starke, Limburg 1959, p. 355 ff., Especially p. 363.
2. ^ ^{A b} Robert Born: Victor Roth and Hermann Phleps. Two positions in German-language art historiography on Transylvania in the interwar period . In: Robert Born, Alena Janatková, Adam S. Labuda (eds.): The art historiographies in East Central Europe and the national discourse (= Humboldt writings on art and picture history . Vol. 1). Gebr. Mann, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-7861-2491-4 , pp. 355-380, here: p. 376.
3. ↑ Completed dissertations at the Institute for Art History 1873–2001 , kunstgeschichte.uni-muenchen.de, accessed on May 26, 2017.
4. ^ Edgar Wolfrum : History policy in Bavaria. Conveyance of tradition, dealing with the past and popular awareness of history after 1945 . In: Thomas Schlemmer , Hans Woller (Ed.): Bavaria in the Bund . Volume 3: Politics and Culture in the Federal State. 1949 to 1973 (= sources and representations on contemporary history . Vol. 54). Oldenbourg, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-486-56596-6 , pp. 349-409, here: p. 376.
5. ^ Edgar Wolfrum : History policy in Bavaria. Conveyance of tradition, dealing with the past and popular awareness of history after 1945 . In: Thomas Schlemmer , Hans Woller (Ed.): Bavaria in the Bund . Volume 3: Politics and Culture in the Federal State. 1949 to 1973 (= sources and representations on contemporary history . Vol. 54). Oldenbourg, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-486-56596-6 , pp. 349-409, here: p. 378.
6. ^ Ernst Aichner : 125 Years of the Bavarian Army Museum . In: Kaskett. Journal of the Friends of the Bavarian Army Museum eV , Issue 20, 2004, pp. 6–12, here: p. 10.
7. ↑ Cf. on this Armin Wolf : Von den Königswahlen zum Kurfürstenkolleg. Pictorial monuments as unrecognized documents of constitutional history In: Reinhard Schneider , Harald Zimmermann (Eds.): Elections and elections in the Middle Ages (= Constance Working Group for Medieval History: Lectures and Research . Vol. 37). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1990, ISBN 3-7995-6637-6 , pp. 15-78, here: p. 48.
8. ↑ Lorenz Seelig : Arms . In: Renate Eikelmann , Ingolf Bauer (Hrsg.): The Bavarian National Museum. 1855-2005. 150 years of collecting, researching, exhibiting . Commissioned by the Bavarian National Museum, Hirmer, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-7774-2885-X , pp. 417–432, here: p. 432.