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The '''Dresden Academy of Fine Arts''' ([[German language|German]] ''Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden''), often abbreviated '''HfBK Dresden''' or simply '''HfBK''', is a [[vocational university]] of [[visual arts]] located in [[Dresden]], [[Germany]]. The present institution is the product of a merger between the famous Dresden Art Academy, founded in 1764, the workplace and training ground of a number of influential European artists, and another well-established local art school, Hochschule für Werkkunst Dresden, after [[World War II]].<ref> Dresden Travel Guide http://www.world66.com/europe/germany/saxony/dresden</ref>
The '''Dresden Academy of Fine Arts''' ([[German language|German]] ''Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden''), often abbreviated '''HfBK Dresden''' or simply '''HfBK''', is a [[vocational university]] of [[visual arts]] located in [[Dresden]], [[Germany]]. The present institution is the product of a merger between the famous Dresden Art Academy, founded in 1764, the workplace and training ground of a number of influential European artists, and another well-established local art school, Hochschule für Werkkunst Dresden, after [[World War II]].<ref>Dresden Travel Guide http://www.world66.com/europe/germany/saxony/dresden {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151005163234/http://www.world66.com/europe/germany/saxony/dresden |date=2015-10-05 }}</ref>


==History==
==History==

===Buildings===
===Buildings===
[[Image:Dresden Überblick 8.jpg|thumb|right|280px|Dresden Academy of Fine Arts]]
[[Image:Dresdner Comedy und Theater Club.jpg|thumb|right|The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts on [[Brühl's Terrace]], view of the front side]]
[[Image:Dresden Hochschule für Bildende Kuenste 2.jpg|thumb|right|280px|The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts on Brühl's Terrace, view of the front side]]
[[Image:Zitronenpresse, Kuppel der Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Dresden, 2007.jpg|thumb|right|The glass dome of the main building - colloquially referred to as "Lemon Squeezer"]]
[[Image:Kunstakademie Dresden.JPG|thumb|right|280px|The glass dome of the academy - referred to as Lemon Squeezer]]
[[Image:Dresden Fama (2005).jpg|thumb|right|Pheme or Fama on top of the dome of the main building]]
[[Image:Dresden Fama (2005).jpg|thumb|right|280px|Pheme or Fama on top of the Lemon Squeezer of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts]]
[[Image:Dresdner-Kunstakademie.jpg|thumb|right|Interior view below the glass dome]]
[[Image:Dresdner-Kunstakademie.jpg|thumb|right|280px|Interior view below the glass dome]]


One of three buildings of today’s Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, the former Royal Academy of Arts, built in 1894, is located at a prominent position in town on [[Brühl's Terrace]] just next to the [[Frauenkirche]]. Since 1991, the building built by Constantin Lipsius on Brühl's Terrace between 1887 and 1894 – the glass dome of which is also known as Lemon Squeezer due to its form – has been heavily renovated and the parts that were destroyed during World War II were reconstructed. The studios for painting/graphic arts/sculpture/other artistic media, the graphic workshops, the rector's office and the exhibition rooms of the Academy, which house the annual graduation exhibitions of the graduates, are located on Brühl's Terrace.
One of three buildings of today’s Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, the former Royal Academy of Arts, built in 1894, is located at a prominent position in town on [[Brühl's Terrace]] just next to the [[Dresden Frauenkirche|Frauenkirche]]. Since 1991, the building built by Constantin Lipsius on Brühl's Terrace between 1887 and 1894 – the glass dome of which is also known as Lemon Squeezer due to its form – has been heavily renovated and the parts that were destroyed during World War II were reconstructed. The studios for painting/graphic arts/sculpture/other artistic media, the graphic workshops, the rector's office and the exhibition rooms of the Academy, which house the annual graduation exhibitions of the graduates, are located on Brühl's Terrace.


On the side of the building facing the [[Elbe]], the names of [[Pheidias]], [[Iktinos]], [[Praxiteles]], [[Polykleitos]], [[Lysippos]], [[Erwin von Steinbach]], [[Leonardo da Vinci]], [[Michelangelo]], [[Raphael]] and [[Dürer]] are inscribed on the wall and on the other side the motto “DEM VATERLAND ZU ZIER UND EHR” - “for the credit and honour of the Fatherland” - is inscribed.
On the side of the building facing the [[Elbe]], the names of [[Pheidias]], [[Iktinos]], [[Praxiteles]], [[Polykleitos]], [[Lysippos]], [[Erwin von Steinbach]], [[Leonardo da Vinci]], [[Michelangelo]], [[Raphael]] and [[Dürer]] are inscribed on the wall and on the other side the motto "''DEM VATERLAND ZU ZIER UND EHR''" - "For the Honour and Adornment of the Fatherland" - is inscribed.


Apart from this magnificent building, the Academy owns the building for sculpture in Pfotenhauerstrasse, the studios and workshops of which were built in a big open-air exhibition ground in 1910. The workshops and studios for the courses of study of restoration, stage setting and costume design and the technical college degree course for theatre setting and costume design are located at Güntzstrasse in the buildings of the former Academy of Applied Arts.
Apart from this building, the Academy owns the building for sculpture in Pfotenhauerstrasse, the studios and workshops of which were built in a big open-air exhibition ground in 1910. The workshops and studios for the courses of study of restoration, stage setting and costume design and the technical college degree course for theatre setting and costume design are located at Güntzstrasse in the buildings of the former Academy of Applied Arts.


===Institution===
===Institution===

====Predecessors====
====Predecessors====
In 1764, the “Allgemeine Kunst-Academie der Malerey, Bildhauer-Kunst, Kupferstecher- und Baukunst” (General Academy of Arts for Painting, Sculpture, Copperplate Engraving and Architecture) was founded by order of the Prince-Elector [[Frederick Christian]]. From 1768 to 1786 it was located in the [[Fürstenberg Palace]]. Its first director was the Frenchmen Charles Hutin. After the death of Hutin in 1776, Johann Eleazar Zeissig, referred to as Schenau, became alternating director of the Academy together with [[Giovanni Battista Casanova]].
In 1764, the “Allgemeine Kunst-Academie der Malerey, Bildhauer-Kunst, Kupferstecher- und Baukunst” (General Academy of Arts for Painting, Sculpture, Copperplate Engraving and Architecture) was founded by order of the Prince-Elector [[Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony|Frederick Christian]]. From 1768 to 1786 it was located in the [[Fürstenberg Palace]]. Its first director was the Frenchmen Charles Hutin. After the death of Hutin in 1776, [[Johann Eleazar Zeissig]], referred to as [[Johann Eleazar Zeissig|Schenau]], became alternating director of the Academy together with [[Giovanni Battista Casanova]].


The Academy was the successor institution of the first “Zeichen- und Malerschule” (School for Drawing and Painters) founded in 1680. It was one of the oldest academies of art in the German-speaking area. In 1950 the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Dresden (Dresden Academy of Fine Arts) was merged with the Staatliche Hochschule für Werkkunst (Public Academy of Applied Art) – the successor of the Königlich Sächsische Kunstgewerbeschule (Royal Saxon School of Applied Art)– into today's "Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden” (Dresden Academy of Fine Arts).
The Academy was the successor institution of the first “Zeichen- und Malerschule” (School for Drawing and Painters) founded in 1680. It was one of the oldest academies of art in the German-speaking area. In 1950 the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Dresden (Dresden Academy of Fine Arts) was merged with the Staatliche Hochschule für Werkkunst (Public Academy of Applied Art) – the successor of the Königlich Sächsische Kunstgewerbeschule (Royal Saxon School of Applied Art)– into today's "Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden” (Dresden Academy of Fine Arts).


====Features====
====Features====
Today it is one of the academies of art in Germany that are especially attractive for a degree in art due to their unmistakable profile and optimum general conditions. The students are provided with spacious studies und well equipped workshops. The possibilities for exhibitions at the Academy are excellent: The Academy is provided with presentation space in the octagon below the glass dome referred to as “Lemon Squeezer” that is a landmark in the town, and in the two big adjacent exhibition rooms as well as the former library and the “Galerie Brühlsche Terrasse” (Brühl’s Terrace Gallery) which may be used by students from all degree courses and co-operation partners of the Academy.
The Academy is provided with presentation space in the octagon below the glass dome referred to as “Lemon Squeezer” that is a landmark in the town, and in the two big adjacent exhibition rooms as well as the former library and the “Galerie Brühlsche Terrasse” (Brühl’s Terrace Gallery) which may be used by students from all degree courses and co-operation partners of the Academy.


====Degree courses====
The reorganisation of the Academy started in 1990 offered the chance for innovative and organic development of an academy with a long and successful history and distinct traditions. Well-known artists from the global world of art are teaching at the Academy. The different courses available for the study of painting and graphics as well as sculpture are very diverse. The classic cornerstones of artistic teaching at the Dresden Academy complemented and led to discourse and artistic exchange in the project class “New Media” and in a specialised course for comprehensive artistic works. The rules for study allow for changes within and between the specialized courses and for using the courses in the best possible way for one’s own artistic ambitions and projects.
The degree course of Bildende Kunst (Fine Art) consists of 10 semesters and leads to the [[Diplom]] degree. The degree course Kunsttechnologie, Konservierung und Restaurierung von Kunst- und Kulturgut (Art Technology, Preservation and Restoration of Artistic and Cultural Assets) is one of the oldest courses on university level in Germany.


The Laboratory Theatre in the Güntzstrasse completed in April 2000 houses a rehearsal and experimental stage room.
====Degree Courses====


==Notable alumni and former faculty==
The degree course of Bildende Kunst (Fine Art) consists of 10 semesters and leads to the [[Diplom]] degree. The degree course Kunsttechnologie, Konservierung und Restaurierung von Kunst- und Kulturgut (Art Technology, Preservation and Restoration of Artistic and Cultural Assets) is one of the oldest and most renowned education courses on university level in Germany. The degree course Bühnen- und Kostümbild (Stage Setting and Costume Design) and the technical college degree course Theaterausstattung (Theatre Setting and Costume Design) offer with their practical oriented integration of designing and realising disciplines conditions for work and study that are hard to find anywhere else.


===Former faculty members===
The Laboratory Theatre in the Güntzstrasse completed in April 2000 which houses a well-equipped rehearsal and experimental stage room allows the Academy to provide the theatre courses as well with ideal teaching conditions in addition to the studios.
One of its most illustrious teachers was [[Bernardo Bellotto]], a painter of town scapes of Dresden. At the beginning of the 19th century, painters such as [[Anton Graff]] and [[Adrian Zingg]] made the Dresden Academy one of the most important art schools in Europe. The engraver [[:de:Johann Friedrich Müller (Kupferstecher)|Johann Friedrich Wilhem Müller]], author of a famous engraving of the [[Sistine Madonna]] after Raphael, was a professor at the Akademie from 1814 to 1816. [[Ernst Rietschel]], [[Gottfried Semper]] and [[Ludwig Richter]] consolidated the reputation of the academy, which experienced a further zenith around the turn of the century. Many other eminent artists and scholars closely associated with the history of the Academy include [[Eugen Bracht]], [[Giovanni Casanova]], [[Caspar David Friedrich]], [[Oskar Kokoschka]], and [[Otto Dix]], who taught at the Dresden Academy and shaped its profile.<ref>The Saatchi Gallery : London Contemporary Art Gallery http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artcolleges/ArtCollege/ac_id/880</ref>


Other former artist professors are:
The new postgraduate course Kunst-Therapie (Art Therapy) that was established just a few years ago does only exist a second time at one other art academy in Germany. After their academy studies, artists and art teachers are given attractive new chances for qualification in the artistic-social field.
* [[Karl Albiker]]

==Current Artist Professors==
The following artists teach at this Academy:

===Visual Arts===
* Hans-Peter Adamski - free painting/graphic art
* Peter Bömmels - painting/graphic art and other media of picture poetry
* [[Eberhard Bosslet]] - sculpture and concepts of space
* Monika Brandmeier - sculpture and architectural media
* Lutz Dammbeck - analogue and digital picture media
* Ulrike Grossarth - comprehensive artistic work/mixed media
* Martin Honert - three-dimensional design
* Elke Hopfe - picture drawing, graphic arts, painting
* Ralf Kerbach - painting and artistic design, visual studies
* Christian Sery - interdisciplinary and experimental painting
* Carl-Emanuel Wolff - sculpture
* Wilhelm Mundt - sculpture

===Restaurierung (Restoration)===
Restoration is taught by Thomas Danzl, Ursula Haller, Christoph Herm, Ivo Mohrmann and Ulrich Schiessl.

===Bühnen- und Kostümbild (Stage Setting and Costume Design)===
Stage Setting and Costume Design is taught by the following professors: Marc Deggeller, Johannes Leiacker and Henning Schaller.

===Theaterausstattung (Theatre Setting and Costume Design)===
Theatre Setting and Costume Design is taught by Jens Büttner, Ulrich Eissner, Michael Münch und Gabriele Schoss-Jansen.

===Kunst-Therapie (Art Therapy)===
The postgraduate course of Art Therapy is held by Doris Titze.

===General Theoretical and Applied Teaching===
General theoretical and applied teaching is done by the following teachers: Rainer Beck (art historian), Holger Birkholz, Olaf Lauströer, Constanze Peres and Birgit Wiens.

==Notable faculty and alumni==
===Former Artist Professors===
Founded in [[1764]], the Dresden Art Academy acquired considerable importance. One of its most illustrious teachers was [[Bernardo Belotto]], the painter of the world-famous town scapes of Dresden. At the beginning of the 19th century, painters such as [[Anton Graff]] and [[Adrian Zingg]] made the Dresden Academy one of the most important art schools in Europe. [[Ernst Rietschel]], [[Gottfried Semper]] and [[Ludwig Richter]] consolidated the reputation of the academy, which experienced a further zenith around the turn of the century. Many other eminent artists and scholars closely associated with the history of the Academy include [[Giovanni Casanova]], [[Caspar David Friedrich]], [[Oskar Kokoschka]] and [[Otto Dix]] who taught at the Dresden Academy and shaped its profile.<ref>The Saatchi Gallery : London Contemporary Art Gallery http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artcolleges/ArtCollege/ac_id/880</ref>

Further former artist professors are:

* Alfred Hesse
* Gottfried Bammes
* Rudolf Bergander
* [[Johan Christian Dahl]]
* [[Johan Christian Dahl]]
* Jutta Damme
* Karl Hanusch
* Siegfried Klotz
* Gerhard Kettner
* Herbert Kunze
* [[Constantin Lipsius]]
* [[Constantin Lipsius]]
* [[Richard Müller]]
* [[Richard Müller (artist)|Richard Müller]]
* [[Georg Hermann Nicolai]]
* [[Georg Hermann Nicolai]]
* Günter Horlbeck
* [[Moritz Retzsch]]
* [[Moritz Retzsch]]
* Wilhelm Rudolph (painter)
* Ursula Sax
* Hans Otto Julius Schadow
* Johannes Schilling
* Max Schwimmer
* Klaus Michael Stephan
* Joseph Thürmer
* Max Uhlig
* Philipp Veith
* [[Paul Wallot]]
* [[Paul Wallot]]
* Claus Weidensdorfer
* Detlef Reinemer (ceramic sculptures, stone sculptures)


famous artist presidents:
Well-known Alumni
* [[Johannes Heisig]] (1989–91)
* Johann Friedrich Alexander Thiele (1747–1803), landscape painter and etcher
* Joseph Edward von Gillern (1794–1845), painter and portraitist of the Biedermeier period
* Carl Wilhelm Götzloff (1799–1866), painter of Romanticism
* Ludwig Richter (1803–1884), painter and drawer of Romanticism
* Carl Christian Sparmann (1805–1864), landscape painter
* Gottfried Pulian (1809–1875), landscape and architecture painter
* Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Wegener (1812-1879), animal and landscape painter of Romanticism
* Eduard Leonhardi (1828–1905), landscape painter
* Fedor Flinzer (1832–1911), author, teacher, illustrator
* Bruno Piglhein (1848–1894), sculptor and painter
* Arthur Feudel (1857–1929), portrait and landscape painter
* Charles Johann Palmié (1863–1911), landscape and still life painter
* Otto Mueller (1874-1930), painter and lithographer of Expressionism
* [[Peter August Böckstiegel]] (1889–1951), painter of Expressionism
* Edmund Kesting (1892–1970), painter, graphic artist, photographer and art teacher
* Walter Hege (1893–1955), photographer, cameraman, painter and director
* [[George Grosz]] (1893–1959), drawer and painter
* Kurt Wehlte (1897–1973), painter, painting technique expert and restorer
* Conrad Felixmüller (1897–1977), painter of Expressionism and New Objectivity
* Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler (1899-1940), painter and graphic artist
* Richard Süssmuth (1900–1974), German glass artist and glass producer
* Karl Friedrich Gotsch (1900–1984), painter and graphic artist
* Hans Körnig (1905–1989), painter and graphic artist
* Herbert Volwahsen (1906–1988), sculptor
* Max Hermann Mahlmann (1912–2000), painter, scene painter and commercial artist
* Heinz Löffler (1913–2008), painter and graphic artist
* Vinzenz Wanitschke, (born 1932), sculptor
* Egon Pukall (1934–1989), painter and graphic artist
* Ljuben Stoév (born 1939), painter and graphic artist
* Gisela Peschke (1942–1993), painter and graphic artist
* Sigrid Noack (born 1947), painter/graphic artist
* Cornelia Schleime (born 1953), painter and film maker
* Emmanuel P. Guiragossian (born 1954), painter
* Martin Eder (born 1968), painter of representational “kitsch idylls”
* Frank Nitsche (born 1964), painter
* Eberhard Havekost (born 1967), painter
* Matthias Kanter (born 1968), painter
* H.G. Griese (born 1964), painter
* [[Carl Gustav Carus]]
* [[Kurt Schwitters]]
* [[Gerhard Richter]]
* [[Sascha Schneider]]
* [[Hermann Wislicenus]]


==Degree Courses==
===Alumni===
*[[Carl Gustav Carus]], (1789–1869), German physiologist and painter
The following degree courses can be studied:
*[[Otto Dix]] (1891–1969), German painter and printmaker
* Bildende Kunst (Fine Art - painting, free graphic, sculpture, new media)
*[[Conrad Felixmüller]] (1897–1977), German painter and printmaker
* Kunsttechnologie, Konservierung und Restaurierung von Kunst- und Kulturgut (Art Technology, Preservation and Restoration of Artistic and Cultural Assets)
*[[Fedor Flinzer]] (1832–1911), German author, educator, and illustrator
* Bühnen- und Kostümbild (Stage Setting and Costume Design)
*[[Hilde Goldschmidt]] (1897-1980), German painter and printmaker
* Theaterausstattung (Theatre Setting and Costume Design)
*[[Tatyana Grosman]] (1904–1982), Russian American printmaker, and publisher
*[[George Grosz]] (1893–1959), German painter and caricaturist
*[[Eberhard Havekost]] (born 1967), German painter and stonemason
*[[Friedrich Heyser]] (1857–1921), German painter
*[[Kurt Hilscher]] (1904–1980), German commercial illustrator
*[[Ludwig von Hofmann]] (1861–1945), German painter, graphic artist and designer
*[[Wilhelm von Kügelgen]] (1802–1867), German painter and writer
*[[Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler]] (1899–1940), German painter and graphic artist
*[[Yana Milev]], German philosopher, sociologist, and ethnographer
*[[Otto Mueller]] (1874–1930), German painter and printmaker
*[[Rolf Nesch]] (1893–1975), Norwegian printmaker, painter and sculptor
*[[Bencho Obreshkov]] (1899–1970), Bulgarian painter
*[[Hermann Prell]] (1854–1922), German history painter and sculptor
*[[Sandra Rauch]] (born 1967), German artist
*[[Thomas Reichstein]] (born 1960), German sculptor
*[[Adrian Ludwig Richter]] (1803–1884), German painter and etcher
*[[Gerhard Richter]] (born 1932), German painter and photographer
*[[Osmar Schindler]] (1869–1927), German painter
*[[Cornelia Schleime]] (born 1953), German painter, performer, filmmaker and author
*[[Sascha Schneider]] (1870–1927), German painter and sculptor
*[[Kurt Schwitters]], (1887–1948) German painter
*[[Lasar Segall]], (1891–1957), Brazilian painter, engraver and sculptor
*[[Karl August Senff]] (1770–1838), Baltic German painter, engraver and art teacher
*[[Hans Unger]] (1872–1936), German painter
*[[Otto Kaule]] (1870–1948), German painter


==Locations==
==Locations==
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* Pfotenhauerstrasse 81/83, Dresden-Johannstadt
* Pfotenhauerstrasse 81/83, Dresden-Johannstadt


Each year in early June the graduation and annual exhibitions are held at the locations on the Brühl Terrace and at Pfotenhauerstrasse.
Each year in early June the graduation ceremonies and annual exhibitions are held at the locations on the Brühl Terrace and at Pfotenhauerstrasse.

==See also==
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* [[List of universities in Germany]]


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.hfbk-dresden.de/HfBK-Dresden/Hochschule/Vorstellung/index.php Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden]
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*[http://www.kunstknall.de Website of Students an Masters of the Fine Arts Department]


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Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden
TypePublic
Established1764; 261 years ago (1764)
ChancellorJochen Beißert
RectorMatthias Flügge
Location
Dresden
,
Saxony
,
Germany

51°03′10″N 13°44′33″E / 51.05278°N 13.74250°E / 51.05278; 13.74250
CampusUrban
Websitewww.hfbk-dresden.de/

The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (German Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden), often abbreviated HfBK Dresden or simply HfBK, is a vocational university of visual arts located in Dresden, Germany. The present institution is the product of a merger between the famous Dresden Art Academy, founded in 1764, the workplace and training ground of a number of influential European artists, and another well-established local art school, Hochschule für Werkkunst Dresden, after World War II.[1]

History

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Buildings

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The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts on Brühl's Terrace, view of the front side
The glass dome of the main building - colloquially referred to as "Lemon Squeezer"
Pheme or Fama on top of the dome of the main building
Interior view below the glass dome

One of three buildings of today’s Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, the former Royal Academy of Arts, built in 1894, is located at a prominent position in town on Brühl's Terrace just next to the Frauenkirche. Since 1991, the building built by Constantin Lipsius on Brühl's Terrace between 1887 and 1894 – the glass dome of which is also known as Lemon Squeezer due to its form – has been heavily renovated and the parts that were destroyed during World War II were reconstructed. The studios for painting/graphic arts/sculpture/other artistic media, the graphic workshops, the rector's office and the exhibition rooms of the Academy, which house the annual graduation exhibitions of the graduates, are located on Brühl's Terrace.

On the side of the building facing the Elbe, the names of Pheidias, Iktinos, Praxiteles, Polykleitos, Lysippos, Erwin von Steinbach, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and Dürer are inscribed on the wall and on the other side the motto "DEM VATERLAND ZU ZIER UND EHR" - "For the Honour and Adornment of the Fatherland" - is inscribed.

Apart from this building, the Academy owns the building for sculpture in Pfotenhauerstrasse, the studios and workshops of which were built in a big open-air exhibition ground in 1910. The workshops and studios for the courses of study of restoration, stage setting and costume design and the technical college degree course for theatre setting and costume design are located at Güntzstrasse in the buildings of the former Academy of Applied Arts.

Institution

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Predecessors

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In 1764, the “Allgemeine Kunst-Academie der Malerey, Bildhauer-Kunst, Kupferstecher- und Baukunst” (General Academy of Arts for Painting, Sculpture, Copperplate Engraving and Architecture) was founded by order of the Prince-Elector Frederick Christian. From 1768 to 1786 it was located in the Fürstenberg Palace. Its first director was the Frenchmen Charles Hutin. After the death of Hutin in 1776, Johann Eleazar Zeissig, referred to as Schenau, became alternating director of the Academy together with Giovanni Battista Casanova.

The Academy was the successor institution of the first “Zeichen- und Malerschule” (School for Drawing and Painters) founded in 1680. It was one of the oldest academies of art in the German-speaking area. In 1950 the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Dresden (Dresden Academy of Fine Arts) was merged with the Staatliche Hochschule für Werkkunst (Public Academy of Applied Art) – the successor of the Königlich Sächsische Kunstgewerbeschule (Royal Saxon School of Applied Art)– into today's "Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden” (Dresden Academy of Fine Arts).

Features

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The Academy is provided with presentation space in the octagon below the glass dome referred to as “Lemon Squeezer” that is a landmark in the town, and in the two big adjacent exhibition rooms as well as the former library and the “Galerie Brühlsche Terrasse” (Brühl’s Terrace Gallery) which may be used by students from all degree courses and co-operation partners of the Academy.

Degree courses

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The degree course of Bildende Kunst (Fine Art) consists of 10 semesters and leads to the Diplom degree. The degree course Kunsttechnologie, Konservierung und Restaurierung von Kunst- und Kulturgut (Art Technology, Preservation and Restoration of Artistic and Cultural Assets) is one of the oldest courses on university level in Germany.

The Laboratory Theatre in the Güntzstrasse completed in April 2000 houses a rehearsal and experimental stage room.

Notable alumni and former faculty

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Former faculty members

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One of its most illustrious teachers was Bernardo Bellotto, a painter of town scapes of Dresden. At the beginning of the 19th century, painters such as Anton Graff and Adrian Zingg made the Dresden Academy one of the most important art schools in Europe. The engraver Johann Friedrich Wilhem Müller, author of a famous engraving of the Sistine Madonna after Raphael, was a professor at the Akademie from 1814 to 1816. Ernst Rietschel, Gottfried Semper and Ludwig Richter consolidated the reputation of the academy, which experienced a further zenith around the turn of the century. Many other eminent artists and scholars closely associated with the history of the Academy include Eugen Bracht, Giovanni Casanova, Caspar David Friedrich, Oskar Kokoschka, and Otto Dix, who taught at the Dresden Academy and shaped its profile.[2]

Other former artist professors are:

famous artist presidents:

Alumni

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Locations

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The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts is located at three places along the Elbe river:

  • Brühlsche Terrasse 1, Dresden-Altstadt
  • Güntzstraße 34, Dresden
  • Pfotenhauerstrasse 81/83, Dresden-Johannstadt

Each year in early June the graduation ceremonies and annual exhibitions are held at the locations on the Brühl Terrace and at Pfotenhauerstrasse.

See also

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden.

References

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  1. ^ Dresden Travel Guide http://www.world66.com/europe/germany/saxony/dresden Archived 2015-10-05 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ The Saatchi Gallery : London Contemporary Art Gallery http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artcolleges/ArtCollege/ac_id/880
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