Rainer Rückert

Rainer Rückert (born June 7, 1931 in Neisse , Upper Silesia Province ) is a German art historian .

Rainer Rückert attended the humanistic grammar school in Wiesbaden from 1941 to 1951 . He then studied art history and archeology at the University of Frankfurt from the summer semester of 1951 . There he received his doctorate in 1956 with Harald Keller . He then worked at the Museum of Art and Industry in Hamburg . From 1960 until his retirement in 1993 he worked as a curator at the Bavarian National Museum in Munich, where he was responsible for ceramics and glass.

In particular, he published on the history of Meissen porcelain . He was also responsible for the museum concept for the exhibition of the Meissen porcelain collection, Ernst Schneider Foundation, which opened in 1971 in Lustheim Palace .

Publications (selection)

• The types of metal relic heads of the Middle Ages. Contributions to the Italian examples . Dissertation University of Frankfurt 1956.
  • Partial print: On the shape of the Byzantine reliquaries . In: Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst , Volume 3, 1957, pp. 7–36 (also separately with curriculum vitae).
• Majolika (= picture books of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg 2). Hamburg 1960.
• Franz Anton Bustelli. Hirmer, Munich 1963.
• Meissen porcelain 1710–1810. Exhibition in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich . Hirmer, Munich 1966.
• Lustheim Palace. Meissen porcelain collection, Ernst Schneider Foundation . Bavarian National Museum, Munich 1972 (further editions 1976, 1977, 1985).
• Biographical data of the Meissen manufacturers of the 18th century (catalog of the Meissen porcelain collection Ernst Schneider Foundation, Lustheim Palace, Oberschleißheim in front of Munich, branch museum of the Bavarian National Museum in Munich, supplement). Bavarian National Museum, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-925058-13-3 .
• The glass collection of the Bavarian National Museum in Munich . 2 volumes, Hirmer, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7774-3400-0 .
• The court jester Joseph Fröhlich 1694–1757. Sleight of hand and joker at the court of Augustus the Strong. Edition Volker Huber, Offenbach 1998, ISBN 3-921785-72-3 .

literature

• Renate Eikelmann , Ingolf Bauer (Hrsg.): The Bavarian National Museum. 1855-2005. 150 years of collecting, researching, exhibiting . Hirmer, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-7774-2885-7 , pp. 162, 352, 368, 644.