Bernd E. Ergert

The logo of the German Hunting and Fishing Museum in Munich designed by Bernd E. Ergert

Bernd E. Ergert (* 1940 in Vienna ) is a German historian , painter and book author . Ergert was director of the German Hunting and Fishing Museum in Munich from 1990 to 2005 and is considered the doyen of Bavarian hunting and fishing history .

Life

Bernd Eginhard Ergert was born as the son of a German officer of Austrian origin and a woman from Munich. He grew up in Munich after the Second World War. As a young man, he initially trained as a graphic artist. Later he learned art painting from Karl Blocherer .

Ergert was introduced to hunting and fishing through his grandfather, a forester and hunter . Passion became his job. From 1977 he worked at the German Hunting and Fishing Museum . Ergert designed the fishing museum in the German Hunting Museum, which opened on March 23, 1983, and which until then had been a pure hunting museum . The museum's new emblem, a leaping deer over a huchen that hangs from the fishing line framing the picture, comes from his pen. In 1990 Ergert became director of the museum for the next 15 years. During this time he was a member of the commission "Hunting and Fishing in Art and History" of the International Council for the Conservation of Game and Hunting (CIC).

The "Hunting and Game Museum" at Falkenstein Castle (Upper Palatinate) (1982), the "Hunting and Fishing Museum " at Tambach Castle (1995-2013) and in 2005 the deer museum at Berchtesgaden Castle were established under Ergert's management .

Ergert is the author of books and articles about hunting and fishing and is considered a specialist, particularly in the Bavarian-Alpine hunting and fishing historiography. His monograph "The hunt in Bavaria from prehistory to the present" (1984) is the most comprehensive work on Bavarian hunting history to date.

Ergert is known as a painter for his hunting watercolors . In 1990 he was awarded the culture prize of the German Hunting Association as a "hunting painter" .

Works (selection)

• German Hunting Museum Munich , Westermann, 1979
• Wittelsbacher Jagd , Verlag Dt. Hunting Museum, Munich, 1980
• The hunt in Bavaria. From the past to the present , Rosenheimer Verlag, 1984
• Courtly hunting as table decoration , Schnell und Steiner publishing house, 1991
• Hunting painter Friedrich Waibel. Life and Work , together with Elisabeth Waibel and Werner Friedenberger (editors), Duschel, 2003
• Trophy and superstition , Austrian hunting and Fischerei-Verlag, 2017

Articles (selection)

• Wolpertinger's family tree. Historical consideration of a unique piece , in: Wild und Hund , No. 20, 2006, pp. 116–118
• Royal Legacy. The Wittelsbach deer museum , part 1, in: Pirsch, No. 8, 2007, pp. 100-103
• Royal Legacy. The Wittelsbach Deer Museum , part 2, in: Pirsch, No. 9, 2007, pp. 100-103
• Royal Legacy. The Wittelsbach Deer Museum , Part 3, in: Pirsch, No. 11, 2007, pp. 104-105
• Royal Legacy. The Wittelsbach Deer Museum , part 4, in: Pirsch, No. 12, 2007, pp. 88–89
• Just follow your nose. History of bloodhound work , in: Halali, No. 2, 2012, pp. 94–99
• The stag: Symbol of Christ , in: Jagd in Tirol, No. 11, 2015. P. 44
• The lead dog - forefather of our bloodhound , in: Jagd in Tirol, No. 1, 2016, pp. 42–43

Honors

• Bavarian State Medal for Social Merit (1988)
• Culture award of the German Hunting Association for achievements as "hunting painter" (1990)

Web links

• Royal Fly Fishing: German Hunting and Fishing Museum Munich , history of the fishery museum
• Bernd E. Ergert Historical Lexicon of Bavaria
• Article "Im faunischen Bayern" , Ergert on the origin of the name of the Wolpertinger