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 .
16-525: 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
32-822: Is located at three places along the Elbe river: Each year in early June the graduation ceremonies and annual exhibitions are held at the locations on the Brühl Terrace and at Pfotenhauerstrasse. Br%C3%BChl%27s Terrace Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.133 via cp1102 cp1102, Varnish XID 542270266 Upstream caches: cp1102 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 05:33:52 GMT Ludwig Richter Adrian Ludwig Richter (September 28, 1803 – June 19, 1884)
48-511: 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 degree course of Bildende Kunst (Fine Art) consists of 10 semesters and leads to
64-630: 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. One of its most illustrious teachers
80-520: The Meissen factory, living in a house on Schlossbrucke, close to the castle and cathedral, from 1828 to 1836. In 1841 he became professor and head of the landscape atelier at the Dresden Academy, (now Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden ). The Dresden Gallery owns one of his best and most characteristic paintings: Bridal Procession in a Spring Landscape . An eye disease put a stop to
96-1031: The Leipzig Museum: "Ferry at the Schreckenstein" (1836) and "Bridal Procession in Springtime" (1847), in the Dresden Gallery; "View of the Riesengebirge" (1839), in the National Gallery, Berlin. One of his most notable protégés was Hermann Lungkwitz . Richter visited Italy from 1823 to 1826, and his Thunderstorm in the Sabine Mountains at the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt is one of the rare Italian subjects from his brush. He worked as designer for
112-594: 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
128-560: The practice of his art in 1874; he was pensioned in 1877, and died at Loschwitz , near Dresden. Among his 240 etchings are about 140 views in Saxony, others of Salzburg , Rome, and the Campagna . His individuality is most completely revealed in his 3000 or more drawings. Of special charm are his illustrations for The Vicar of Wakefield (1841), for Musäus ' Volksmärchen der Deutschen (1842) and for numerous other fairy tales, for
144-453: 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. Other former artist professors are: famous artist presidents: The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
160-527: 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. 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
176-612: 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
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#1732772032415192-635: 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
208-414: Was a German painter and etcher , who was strongly influenced by Erhard and Chodowiecki . He was a representative of both Romanticism and Biedermeier styles. He was the most popular, and in many ways the most typical German illustrator of the middle of the 19th century. His work is described as typically German and homely as are the fairy-tales of Grimm , for whom he produced several woodcuts. He
224-460: Was born in Dresden , the son of the engraver Carl August Richter [ de ] , from whom he received his training. The interest of his uneventful life centres within the circle of his art. As a painter Richter aimed at a thorough blending of the figure element with the landscape and may be judged by the following examples: "Harvest Procession in the Campagna" (1833) and three others in
240-547: 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
256-671: 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
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