Bernhard Hermann Röttger

Bernhard Hermann Röttger (* 1891 ; † 1972 ) was a German art historian and monument conservator .

He studied art history and received his doctorate from the University of Munich in 1921 with a thesis on Hans Mielich under Heinrich Wölfflin .

He was the main curator at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .

Bernhard Hermann Röttger created several inventory volumes in the series Die Kunstdenkmäler von Bayern , which are now considered standard literature. The focus was on Lower and Upper Franconia , Lower Bavaria and the Palatinate . His publications include writings on Mespelbrunn Castle , the city of Würzburg , the Convent Prüfening or St. Emmeram's Abbey . In 1925 he dealt with the painter Hans Mielich .

Fonts (selection)

The art monuments of Bavaria

• Volume 3: The art monuments of Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg
  • Issue 23: with Adolf Feulner : District Office Obernburg . Munich 1925.
  • Issue 24: with Adolf Feulner: District Office Aschaffenburg . Munich 1927.
• Volume 4: The art monuments of Lower Bavaria
  • Booklet 11: District Office Wegscheid . Munich 1924.
  • Booklet 20: District Office Bogen . Munich 1929.
• Volume 6: The art monuments of the Palatinate
  • Booklet 3: City and District Office Speyer . Munich 1934.
  • Issue 6: City and District Office Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Munich 1936.
  • Issue 7: District Office Kirchheimbolanden . Munich 1938.
• Volume 8: The art monuments of Upper Franconia
  • Issue 1: with Max Pindl: District of Wunsiedel and urban district of Marktredwitz . Munich 1954.

more publishments

• The Lower Franconian city . Augsburg 1924.
• The painter Hans Mielich . Munich 1925.
• Painting in Lower Franconia . Augsburg 1926.
• The Upper Palatinate city . Augsburg 1926.
• The city of Würzburg . Augsburg 1927.
• Painting in the Upper Palatinate . Augsburg 1927.

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernhard Hermann Röttger in the catalog of the German National Library