Bernhard Heitmann

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1995 in Rome in front of a Roman mosaic in Santa Maria in Trastevere.

Bernhard Heitmann (born February 6, 1942 in Weidenau ) is a German art historian and museum curator .

Live and act

From 1961 Heitmann studied law at the University of Munich . In 1968 he became a trainee lawyer and in 1971 an assessor . He then began studying art history at the University of Munich, which he completed in 1977 with a doctorate .

At the beginning of 1978 he went to the Museum of Art and Industry in Hamburg . After a year and a half internship, he became a curator there . He was initially responsible for the area of renaissance and sculpture with a focus on goldsmithing and later expanded his field of work to include European collections from the Middle Ages to historicism. One of the exhibitions curated by Heitmann was entitled Gold and Silver from the Moscow Kremlin . For the first time, 17th century Hamburg goldsmiths' work, which is in the armory of the Moscow Kremlin , was shown outside Moscow. In 2007 he retired.

Publications (selection)

  • Contributions in: Erich Schliemann (Hrsg.): Die Goldschmiede Hamburgs. Volume 1-3. Hamburg 1985, ISBN 3-88771-005-3 .
  • with Yevgenia I. Smirnova: gold and silver from the Moscow Kremlin. Masterpieces of Hamburg goldsmithing. Published by the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg 1986.
  • (Editor): Jade spring and sea of ​​clouds. 5000 years of Chinese art from the Shanghai Museum . Hoffmann and Campe Verlag, Hamburg 1988.
  • with Karin Ihlenfeld and Carlos Obergruber-Boerner: Craft and machine power. The silver manufacturer Koch & Bergfeld in Bremen. Museum for Arts and Crafts, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-923859-42-2 .
  • Art for Hamburg - from loud to quiet: 50 years - Foundation for the Hamburg art collections. Published by the Foundation 2006, ISBN 3-938002-21-2 .
  • with Carlos Boerner: Historical cutlery. From the collection of the Museum of Arts and Crafts. Published by the museum in 2007, ISBN 978-3-923859-70-2 .
  • A visit to tea with consequences. How Elias Canetti's lover Marie-Louise von Motesiczky found out about his second marriage. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from February 14, 2012.

Web links

Commons : Bernhard Heitmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The German so-called travel service and the toilet sets from 1680 to the end of the Rococo and their cultural-historical significance . Dissertation. Self-published 1979.
  2. ↑ Info from the German National Library: [1]
  3. ↑ Gold and Silver went on a journey. In: The time of October 3, 1986.
personal data
SURNAME Heitmann, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and museum curator
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Weidenau (Siegen)