Bernhard Rüth

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Bernhard Rüth (2018)

Bernhard Rüth (* 1955 in Heidenheim an der Brenz ) is a German archivist who heads the district archive of Rottweil as head of department. He is the author, editor or editor of publications on folklore, regional and art history in Southwest Germany .

Life

Rüth is the district archivist for the Rottweil district . He is the head of the Archive - Culture - Tourism department in the Rottweil District Office, in which the district archive has been integrated since 2005. He is also responsible for the art collection of the Rottweil district.

From 2003 to 2018 Rüth was editor of the book series "Documenta suevica", a series of editions by the Upper Swabian Electricity Works Association (OEW) for sources on regional history between the Black Forest, Alb and Lake Constance. As an art expert, he is also responsible for the OEW's purchasing policy, which has its own regional art collection.

In 2019 he was one of the curators of the touring exhibition "Bella Figura" with works of figurative art from the art collection of the OEW in the Dominican Museum in Rottweil , which was previously shown at the company headquarters in Karlsruhe and Stuttgart. Rüth works on a voluntary basis as chairman of the sponsoring association for youth art schools based in Rottweil and a member of the Rottweil Lions Club, which founded the “Kreisel” youth art school in 2002.

Publications (selection)

as a writer
  • Bernhard and Ingeborg Rüth: Swabian-Alemannic nativity book. Christmas cribs in Baden-Württemberg and Bavarian Swabia . Kunstverlag Josef Fink , Lindenberg im Allgäu 2015, ISBN 978-3-89870-546-2 .
  • (further publications under web links)
as editor
  • The Amber School . The nucleus of post-war art. Catalog for the exhibition in the Dominican Museum Rottweil, ed. on behalf of the Zweckverband Oberschwäbische Elektrizitätswerke, Ravensburg, Rottweil 1998, ISBN 3-928869-10-8 .
  • Documenta Suevica . Edition Isele, Konstanz 2003.
  • with Dorothee Ade and Andreas Zekorn (eds.): Alamannen between the Black Forest, Neckar and Danube: book accompanying the traveling exhibition . Konrad Theiss Verlag , Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8062-2157-2 .
  • with Stefan Borchardt (ed.): The upper Neckar. Images of a landscape . Belser-Verlag , Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-7630-2605-0 .
  • with Casimir Bumiller and Edwin Ernst Weber (eds.): Patrons, collectors, chroniclers. The Counts of Zimmer and the culture of the Swabian nobility (catalog for the exhibition July 15 - September 16, 2012 in the Kreisgalerie Schloss Meßkirch and September 30 - December 2, 2012 in the Dominican Museum in Rottweil.) . Belser-Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-7630-2625-8 .
  • with Dorothee Ade and Cajetan Schaub (eds.): Aristocratic seats between the Black Forest and the Swabian Alb. Castles and palaces on the upper Neckar in historical views . Belser, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-7630-2687-6 .
  • with Michael C. Maurer (Ed.): Plus / Minus. Insights into the art collection of the Oberschwäbische Elektrizitätswerke (OEW) . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2015, ISBN 978-3-89870-980-4 .
  • Christmas customs and Christmas art in the Swabian region. 500 years of festival culture . Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2017, ISBN 978-3-95976-103-1 . , Accompanying volume for the exhibition in the culture and museum center Schloss Glatt
  • Religious art of modernity in the Rottweil area. 1945-2017. Exhibition catalog, Dominikanermuseum, Rottweil 2017, ISBN 978-3-928869-36-2
items
  • Reformation and denomination in urban areas. Research Perspectives . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, Canon Department 77 . 1991, p. 197-282 .
  • Reformation and confessionalization in Upper German imperial cities. The Rottweil case in comparison . In: Leaves for Württemberg Church History 92 . 1992, p. 7-33 .

literature

  • Hartwig Ebert: People in Rottweil. Faces and views . Self-published, Rottweil 2006, ISBN 3-9800632-8-3 , p. 104 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rottweil district: Rottweil district archive . Retrieved July 28, 2020
  2. ↑ a b Art talk with Bernhard Rüth in the foundation cafe. In: nrwz.de. NRWZ Verlag GmbH @ Co KG, June 27, 2018, accessed on August 1, 2020 .
  3. ^ Zweckverband Oberschwäbische Elektrizitätswerke: Book series Documenta Suevica. Edition series for sources on regional history between the Black Forest, Alb and Lake Constance . Retrieved July 28, 2020
  4. ↑ The human figure is the main topic in Art , Schwarzwälder Bote, January 9, 2020
  5. ↑ Schwarzwälder Bote: Travel feeds the inner world of images , November 24, 2019. Retrieved July 30, 2020
  6. ^ Book review by Walter Pötzl in: Bayerisches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde , Munich 2016, pp. 239–240 ( table of contents, pdf )
personal data
SURNAME Rüth, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, archivist, cultural manager, exhibition curator and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidenheim an der Brenz