Arnold Bartetzky

Arnold Bartetzky (* 1965 in Zabrze ) is an art historian and freelance journalist (art and architecture critic).

Life

Bartetzky studied art history, German literature, philosophy and history in Freiburg , Tübingen and Krakow as well as architecture in Berlin. In 1995 he became a research associate and in 2011 specialist coordinator for art history at the Humanities Center for the History and Culture of Eastern Central Europe, today's Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) in Leipzig . In 1998 he received his doctorate from the University of Freiburg. He accepted teaching assignments in Leipzig, Jena and Paderborn. He is also a lecturer at the Monument Academy . He works u. a. as art and architecture critic for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (since 1999), for the expert group on urban monument protection at the Federal Ministry of Transport and as editor of the series “Visuelle Geschichtskultur” at Böhlau Verlag .

Prices

• 2001: Jabłonowski Prize from the Societas Jablonoviana
• 2002: Prize of the Dr. Katarzyna Cieślak Foundation Gdansk
• 2012: Journalist Prize of the German Prize for Monument Protection

Publications

• The Great Armory in Gdansk: building history, architectural-historical position, representative function, research on the history and culture of Eastern Central Europe, Vol. 9, Steiner, Stuttgart 1998.
• The builders of the "German Renaissance": a myth of art history ?, Sax-Verlag, Beucha 2004 (ed.).
• New States - New Pictures ?: visual culture in the service of state self-representation in Central and Eastern Europe since 1918, Visuelle Geschichtskultur Vol. 1, Böhlau, Cologne 2005 (ed. With Marina Dmitrieva and Stefan Troebst ).
• Imaginations of the urban: conception, reflection and fiction of the city in Central and Eastern Europe, Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2009 (ed. With Marina Dmitrieva and Alfrun Kliems ).
• Nation - State - City: Architecture, Monument Preservation and Historical Culture from the 19th to the 21st Century, Visuelle Geschichtskultur Vol. 9, Böhlau, Cologne 2012.
• History in all-round view: Panoramic images in Eastern Europe, Visuelle Geschichtskultur Vol. 11, Böhlau, Cologne 2014 (Ed. With Rudolf Jaworski ).
• From rejection to appropriation ?: the architectural legacy of socialism in Central and Eastern Europe = From rejection to appropriation ?, Visuelle Geschichtskultur Vol. 12, Böhlau, Cologne 2014 (Ed. With Jörg Haspel).
• The rescued city: architecture and urban development in Leipzig since 1989, successes, risks, losses. Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-942473-93-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Arnold Bartetzky in the catalog of the German National Library
• Arnold Bartetzky at www.leibniz-gwzo.de
• Dr. Arnold Bartetzky, freelance journalist and art historian at www.dnk.de
• Arnold Bartetzky at www.denkmalakademie.de