Arnold Bartetzky (born 1965) is a German art historian and freelance journalist (art and architecture critic).
[1] 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 [de] (GWZO) in Leipzig.
He accepted lectureships in Leipzig, Jena and Paderborn.
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.