Vera-Maria Ruthenberg

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Vera-Maria Ruthenberg , also Vera Ruthenberg for short , (born March 8, 1920 ; died November 7, 2009 ) was a German art historian .

Life

Vera-Maria Ruthenberg, who holds a doctorate in art history, came to the National Gallery on Museum Island in Berlin in 1952 . After Ludwig Justi's death in 1957, she took over provisional management of the National Gallery, which she held until 1966. She organized numerous exhibitions and published works on art from the 19th and 20th centuries. The exhibition, curated by her, From Delacroix to Picasso: A Century of French Painting , for which she was able to show loans from Eastern and Western Europe in the National Gallery, attracted particular attention . The later director Peter-Klaus Schuster paid tribute to her work : “The exhibitions, especially on 19th century art and expressionism, which were developed with great scientific care and expertise, are held by the National Gallery in the eastern part of Berlin under its directors Vera-Maria Ruthenberg, Willi Geismeier and Peter Betthausen secured a high international reputation ”. The painter Harald Metzkes , who portrayed her in his painting Kino from 1967 at the side of the sculptor Siegfried Krepp , made her connection with the artists of the GDR clear . Even after her management activity, she continued to work at the Nationalgalerie and, for example, guided the Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky through the collection in 1978 .

Publications (selection)

  • Vera Ruthenberg: Ludwig Richter on his 150th birthday; Watercolors and drawings owned by the National Gallery, Berlin . National Museums in Berlin, National Gallery and Lemke, Berlin 1953.
  • Vera Ruthenberg: Moritz von Schwind on his 150th birthday; Watercolors and drawings owned by the National Gallery . National Museums in Berlin, National Gallery, Berlin 1954.
  • Vera Ruthenberg: Lovis Corinth on the 100th birthday . National Museums in Berlin, National Gallery, Berlin 1958.
  • Vera-Maria Ruthenberg, Brigitte Fissel, Karl Heinz Janda: Waldemar Gzimek . National Museums in Berlin, National Gallery, Berlin 1960.
  • Vera Ruthenberg: Otto Niemeyer-Holstein, 65 years . National Museums in Berlin, National Gallery, Berlin 1961.
  • Vera Ruthenberg: Otto Horbig . National Museums in Berlin, National Gallery, Berlin 1962.
  • Vera Ruthenberg, Walter Heese: National Gallery . State Museums in Berlin, Seemann, Leipzig 1963.
  • Vera Ruthenberg: The painter Carl Blechen between 1828 and 1833, style-critical considerations on the paintings in the Cottbus Museum . City Museum, Cottbus 1963.
  • Vera Ruthenberg: From Delacroix to Picasso, a century of French painting . National Museums in Berlin, National Gallery, Berlin 1965.
  • Vera Ruthenberg: Adolph Menzel, paintings, drawings . National Museums in Berlin, National Gallery, Berlin 1980.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Photograph of the grave with the life data of Vera-Maria Ruthenberg
  2. ↑ Peter-Klaus Schuster: The National Gallery , p. 378.
  3. ↑ Peter-Klaus Schuster: The National Gallery , p. 32.
  4. ↑ Edouard Beaucamp, Jörg Makarinus, Silke Ettling: Harald Metzkes - balance of a painter . Exhibition catalog Schloß Gottorf, Schleswig, Kerber, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 978-3-938025-89-5 , p. 117.
  5. ↑ Vera-Maria Ruthenberg (center) with Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky (right in the foreground) in the National Gallery on Museum Island in 1978. On the wall on the left is the painting Self-Portrait with his brother Ridolfo and Thorvaldson by Wilhelm von Schadow. Photograph by Rainer Mittelstädt from March 31, 1978, Federal Archives.
personal data
SURNAME Ruthenberg, Vera-Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruthenberg, Vera
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and director of the National Gallery Berlin
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1920
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 2009