Arnold Bartetzky
German art historian and architecture critic
Arnold Bartetzky (born 1965) is a German art historian and freelance journalist (art and architecture critic).
Life
Born in Zabrze, Bartetzky studied art history, German language and literature, philosophy and history at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and the Jagiellonian University as well as architecture in Berlin. In 1995 he became a research associate and in 2011 he became the coordinator for art history at the Humanities Centre for the History and Culture of Eastern Central Europe, today's Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO) in Leipzig. In 1998 he received his doctorate at the University of Freiburg. He accepted lectureships in Leipzig, Jena and Paderborn. He is also a lecturer at the DenkmalAkademie. He works, among other things, as an art and architecture critic for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (since 1999), for the expert group for urban monument protection at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure and as editor of the series "Visuelle Geschichtskultur" [Visual Historical Culture] by Böhlau Verlag.
Publications
Das Große Zeughaus in Danzig: Baugeschichte, architekturgeschichtliche Stellung, repräsentative Funktion, Forschungen zur Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Mitteleuropa vol. 9, Steiner, Stuttgart 1998.
Die Baumeister der "deutschen Renaissance": ein Mythos der Kunstgeschichte?.
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