Peter Rochhaus

Peter Rochhaus (* 1958 in Bad Frankenhausen ) is a German museologist and art historian .

After a traineeship at the Kreisheimatmuseum in Bad Frankenhausen, Rochhaus studied from 1978 to 1981 at the specialist school for museologists in Leipzig . He then worked at the Panorama Museum in Bad Frankenhausen until 1984 . From 1984 to 2002 he was head of the Adam Ries Museum in Annaberg-Buchholz . During this time he completed a distance learning course at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in the art history department to become an art historian with a degree in philology. further. Since 2002 he has been working as a freelancer and since 2011 he has been working on the “ General Artists Dictionary ” published by De Gruyter . In addition, from 1999 to 2002 he was responsible for recording the works of the Annaberg painter, graphic artist and designer Rudolf Manuwald (1916–2002).

So far he has published 17 books and brochures as well as around 500 newspaper and magazine articles, including on Adam Ries and his time, Rudolf Köselitz , the art and culture of the Ore Mountains and his hometown Bad Frankenhausen.

Honors

In 1998 he received a certificate from the city of Annaberg-Buchholz as “recognition of outstanding achievements in the field of publication 1997”.

Works (selection)

• Carving in the Ore Mountains Museum Annaberg-Buchholz (Annaberger Museumblätter 2), Annaberg-Buchholz 1987
• Shortly before oblivion - On the life and work of the painter and illustrator Rudolf Köselitz. (Forays through the history of the Upper Ore Mountains, issue 24) Annaberg-Buchholz, 1998.
• Bad Frankenhausen: Pictures of a small town. Sutton, Erfurt 2001, ISBN 3-89702-267-2 .
• Annaberg-Buchholz: About painters, builders and other oddities. Sutton, Erfurt 2005, ISBN 3-89702-914-6 .
• Famous Erzgebirge in dates and stories. Sutton, Erfurt 2006, ISBN 978-3-86680-020-5 .
• Adam Ries. Sutton, Erfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-86680-407-4 .
• About the work of the master builder Woldemar Kandler in the Ore Mountains. In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter 32 (2010), Heft 3, pp. 2–3. ISSN  0232-6078
• Hecker, Ernst . In: General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 70, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023175-5 , p. 515 f.
• Description and calculation of the most important old Wettin measures, coins and weights along with those of neighboring countries from 1205 to 1871. Adam-Ries-Bund, Annaberg-Buchholz 2014, ISBN 978-3-944217-07-9 .
• Eduard Robert Henze in Annaberg-Buchholz - His monuments in Annaberg-Buchholz with a preliminary catalog raisonné of the sculptures and drawings. Grin-Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-656-87104-0 .
• Rudolf Manuwald, artist book for the 100th birthday , ed. by Jörg Seifert, with texts by Peter Rochhaus and Alexander Stoll, Annaberg-Buchholz 2016.
• Erzgebirge artist lexicon: "The silver Mercury" - architects, painters, sculptors. Hermann, Chemnitz 2017, ISBN 978-3-940860-24-8 .
• Made of good wood - From carving in the Ore Mountains. Ebook, approx. 208 pages, numerous color illustrations, Chemnitz 2020, ISBN 978-3-940860-30-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Rochhaus in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Peter Rochhaus in the Saxon Bibliography