Johann Joachim Bernitt

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Johann Joachim Bernitt (born October 29, 1925 in Rostock ; † May 31, 1992 ibid) was a German art historian and museologist.

Life

Johann Joachim Bernitt was the son of the Rostock pedagogue and Low German writer Hans Bernitt (1899–1954) and his wife Elisabeth, b. Pulse (1897-1959). One can assume that Bernitt's life was shaped by his father's interests, his passion for collecting, his commitment to nature and local history, and his help for local artists. During the Nazi era, his father was barred from working in the public service due to his convinced political stance as a social democrat, which made it difficult to maintain the family. A higher education or a degree was therefore out of the question and Bernitt learned the profession of photographer. After the war he made up his Abitur and studied art history at the University of Greifswald . In 1953 he wrote his diploma thesis on the Mecklenburg artist colonies.

From November 1955, Bernitt worked in the Rostock museum system and initially worked as a research assistant at the City History Museum, which later became the Museum of Cultural History . During this time, he took over the role of acting director, as the previous director, Hans Arnold Gräbke, had moved to Lübeck. Under his direction, the collections were further scientifically processed, which have now been finally arranged according to the standards of a museum divided into individual scientific holdings. The inventory catalog with 200 printed pages of Dutch painting, graphics and handicrafts from 1966 was his work. In 1969, he conceived the exhibition on the city's history in the Kröpeliner Tor , which was converted for this purpose and thus opened to the public for the first time. He organized and cataloged the extensive tin collection and wrote a monograph on it (1983).

The creation of a collection of works from the artist colonies Ahrenshoop and Schwaan , for which he published the museum booklet Painting from the artist colonies Ahrenshoop and Schwaan in 1987, is of inestimable value . He knew many of the artists he introduced himself and maintained personal contact. In his diploma thesis, he had already incorporated personal conversations with Käthe Miethe , Hans Brass , Franz Triebsch , Thuro Balzer , Fritz Koch-Gotha , Hedwig Woermann and others. In this context he was also particularly concerned with the work and development of the work of Rudolf Bartels .

Before moving to the Maritime Museum in 1987, Johann Joachim Bernitt worked several times as acting director and in the last few years before his retirement he was head of the Warnemünde Local History Museum . Bernitt died after a serious illness at the age of 67. His grave is in the New Cemetery in Rostock.

“Johann Joachim Bernitt was not a man who was the focus. His strength was his knowledge of the museum's holdings and their importance on a national and international scale. A knowledge that he tried again and again to convey to the disinterested and ignorant. Often he was misunderstood or ignored because of his quiet manner. Maybe that's why he never became the museum director and remained the eternal 'second' who was allowed to officiate from time to time. "

- Wolf Karge

Fonts (selection)

  • Mecklenburg artist colonies. A contribution to the sociology of the artist in the 19th and 20th centuries. Rostock 1953.
  • Richard Blankenburg . Memorial exhibition. Rostock City Museum, 1957. DNB 363340807
  • Carl Hinrichs . From worker to artist. Rostock City Museum, 1960. DNB 452025419
  • Dutch painting, graphics and handicrafts. Holdings of the Rostock Cultural History Museum. Cummerow & Jokiel, Putbus 1966. DNB 572259417
  • Hedwig Holtz-Summer . Painting and graphics. Kulturhistorisches Museum, Rostock 1967. DNB 572259409
  • Heinrich Engel . Rostock. Painting, graphics, ceramics. Catalog of the 1970 exhibition, Rostock Cultural History Museum. Ostsee-Druck, Rostock 1970.
  • Dutch painting and graphics. In: Booklet accompanying the Rostock Dutch collection. (= Booklet No. 2) Kulturhistorisches Museum, Rostock 1980.
  • Rostock pewter collection. (= Accompanying booklet No. 3) Kulturhistorisches Museum, Rostock 1982. DNB 870144464
  • Painting from the artist colonies Ahrenshoop and Schwaan. (= Accompanying booklet No. 5) Kulturhistorisches Museum, Rostock 1987. ISSN  0232-9514 . DNB 105972605X
  • Wilhelmlesenberg (1802-1857). A Rostock doctor and artist. Kulturhistorisches Museum, Rostock 1988.
  • Hiking atlas Bad Doberan - Kühlungsborn. Baltic seaside resorts between Rerik and Rostock-Warnemünde. Tourist-Verlag, Berlin 1991. ISBN 3-350-00382-6 .
  • Ahrenshoop and Schwaan. A century of north German artist colonies. Atelier in the farmhouse, Fischerhude 1992. ISBN 3-88132-201-9 .

"When the Fischerhuder Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus published the book 'Norddeutsche Künstlerkolonien: Ahrenshoop und Schwaan' in 1992, JJ Bernitt was already too sick to accept the commission he was asked to write, but allowed the existing text from 1987 to be printed."

- Friedrich Schulz

literature

  • Antje Krause; Hans-Jürgen Mende; Hanseatic City of Rostock (Ed.): New Rostock Cemetery - Remarkable Graves - Part 2. Rostock 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-044569-9 , pp. 29-30.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 896-897 .
  • Friedrich Schulz : Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 2001, ISBN 3-88132-292-2 , p. 32.
  • Wolf Karge: Johann Joachim Bernitt (1925–1992) - A life for the Rostock museums. In: Communications from the Museum Association in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Issue 1, Schwerin 1992, ISSN  2569-0442 , pp. 8–9.
  • Peter Danker-Carstensen: The Warnemünde Local History Museum as a branch of the Rostock Maritime Museum. In: Mitteilungen des Museumsverband in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern eV , Volume 26, Rostock 2017, ISSN  2569-0442 , pp. 26–33 ( digital copy , PDF).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Wolf Karge: Johann Joachim Bernitt… - See literature.
  2. ↑ According to: Antje Krause; Hans-Jürgen Mende: New Rostock Cemetery ... p. 30 - and - Friedrich Schulz: Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. P. 32 - See literature.
    Other sources name the University of Rostock as the place of study, but Johann Joachim Bernitt is not listed in the Rostock matriculation portal . The thesis does not contain any references to the place of study.
  3. ↑ a b Proof of diploma thesis, Rostock University Library
  4. ^ Museum of the City of Rostock after 1945. - Website, Rostock Cultural History Museum - Museum history
  5. ^ Peter Danker-Carstensen: The Warnemünde Local History Museum as a branch of the Rostock Maritime Museum. - See literature.
  6. ^ Friedrich Schulz: Ahrenshoop. Artist Lexicon. - See literature.
personal data
SURNAME Bernitt, Johann Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art scholar and museologist
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1992
Place of death Rostock