Arnold Bartetzky

Arnold Bartetzky is an art historian and architecture critic, and works as the head of department at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) and as honorary professor at the University of Leipzig. He writes among others at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He is a member of various expert committees for urban development, preservation of historical monuments and the promotion of science. His fields of work include architecture, urban planning, monument preservation and political iconography. Recent book publications: Das verschwundene Leipzig. Das Prinzip Abriss und Neubau in drei Jahrhunderten Stadtentwicklung. Leipzig 2020 (together with Anna Reindl); Geschichte bauen. Architektonische Rekonstruktion und Nationenbildung vom 19. Jahrhundert bis heute, Cologne-Weimar-Vienna 2017 (ed.); Die gerettete Stadt. Architektur und Stadtentwicklung in Leipzig. Erfolge – Risiken – Verluste. Leipzig 2015.