Eberhard Bartke

Eberhard Bartke (born February 18, 1926 in Berlin ; † November 17, 1990 there ) was a German art historian and from 1976 to 1983 director general of the State Museums in Berlin .

Life

The son of a painter Eberhard Bartke was after the completion of high school to the Reich Labor Service and in June 1944 in the German Wehrmacht moved in. He fought in World War II until the end of the war and was seriously wounded. In 1946 he returned to Berlin and began studying at the University of Design in Berlin-Weißensee , which he did not graduate.

In 1947 Bartke joined the SED and in 1948/49 was the head of the SED basic organization at the Berlin-Weißensee University of Applied Sciences. From 1949 to 1952 Bartke was a teacher at the SED district party school in Berlin-Kaulsdorf and an employee of the SED district leadership. From March to December he was head of the SED operating school at the Elektro-Apparate-Werke in Treptow .

In 1953/54 Bartke was an aspirant at the Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED and passed the state examination. By 1958 he completed a second traineeship at the Academy of Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the CPSU in Moscow and received his doctorate . From 1958 to 1961 Bartke was deputy head of the chair for theory and history of literature and art and lecturer at the Institute for Social Sciences in Berlin.

From 1959 to 1962 Bartke was a member of the central management and chairman of the new section on art history in the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR (VBK). In 1961 he became the main consultant in the Ministry of Culture of the GDR . In 1962, Bartke had to answer party proceedings because he had strongly criticized Walter Ulbricht's cultural policy in the so-called Heinrich Witz controversy .

From 1962, Bartke was head of the fine arts and museums department in the GDR Ministry of Culture and visiting professor at the University of Design in Berlin-Weißensee . From 1974 to 1978 he was Vice President of the VBK.

From 1975 Bartke was director of the Nationalgalerie and from 1976 to 1983 director general of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. In 1979, another party case was opened against him. In 1988 Bartke was expelled from the VBK because of continued criticism of the cultural policy of the GDR.

He found his final resting place in the Müggelheim forest cemetery .

literature

• Beatrice Vierneisel:  Eberhard Bartke . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lis in oil . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 1966, pp. 174 ( online ).