Berthold Roland

Berthold Roland (born February 24, 1928 in Landau in the Palatinate ) is a German art historian .

Life

Berthold Roland grew up in Rhodt under Rietburg and Speyer and studied art history, medieval and Bavarian history at the universities of Mainz , Göttingen and Munich . He was honorary managing director of the Association of Visual Artists Palatinate Secession and was able to establish contacts with Hans Purrmann , Rudolf Scharpf , Gustav Seitz and Emy Roeder . As a curator at the Reiss Museum in Mannheim , he supported Helmut Kohl in matters of art. In 1970 he became an art consultant in the Mainz Ministry of Culture, where he invented the Max Slevogt Medal . Then from 1983 to 1993 he was director of the Landesmuseum Mainz and the Villa Ludwigshöhe , and finally also an art advisor at the Federal Chancellery in Bonn. In 2007, he and his wife Ike Roland founded the Ike and Berthold Roland Foundation, which has been awarding one to three prizes for art in Rhineland-Palatinate and for social commitment in Germany every year since 2009, makes generous donations to museums and public institutions and initiates cultural events . In addition, Berthold Roland has been awarding the Dr. Ike Roland Prize for special social commitment, endowed with 5,000 euros, and, since 2015, the Dr. Berthold Roland Photo Art Prize , established in 2008 by Landesbank Rheinland-Pfalz , endowed with 3,000 euros, every two years.

Roland lives in Mannheim.

Fonts

monograph

• The Pfalz-Zweibrückischen painters of the 18th century. A contribution to the new view of artistic importance and the preservation of art in Pfalz-Zweibrücken. Dissertation Munich 1956.

Editing

• with Susanne Faschon , Hajo Knebel and Werner Hanfgarn : Literature from Rhineland-Palatinate: an anthology. Part 3 dialect. Mainz: Schmidt, 1986 ISBN 3-87439-122-1
• One-looks. A text selection. On the occasion of the 75th birthday of Dr. Berthold Roland published. Azur, Mannheim 2003, ISBN 3-934634-11-7 , (autobiographical texts, list of publications pp. 141–171), table of contents provided by the German National Library

Web links

• Annika Wind: "He still calls me his art council today". Mannheimer Morgen , February 22, 2013, accessed on November 14, 2014 .  (85th birthday article).