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 .
23-525: 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
46-526: A city palace with a gallery, a library and adjacent gardens built on the location. In 1747 the whole terrace was given to him by the Saxon elector as a gift for the innovative introduction of a betterment tax. After the Saxon defeat at the Battle of Leipzig and the occupation by Russian troops, military governor Prince Nikolai Grigorjevich Repnin-Volkonski ordered the opening to the public in 1814. He charged
69-751: Is known as the "Balcony of Europe", a name which was first thought up and used at the beginning of the 19th century and which since then has been used in all kinds of literature. The name "Balcony of Dresden", on the other hand, is more regionally used for a tower six kilometers further to the East on a slope by the Elbe in Loschwitz , an area known for expensive living. 51°03′12″N 13°44′25″E / 51.05333°N 13.74028°E / 51.05333; 13.74028 Ludwig Richter Adrian Ludwig Richter (September 28, 1803 – June 19, 1884)
92-583: 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 Brühl's Terrace ( German : Brühlsche Terrasse ) is a historic architectural ensemble in Dresden , Germany . Nicknamed "The Balcony of Europe", the terrace stretches high above
115-511: 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
138-630: 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
161-520: 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
184-1031: 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
207-638: The architect Gottlob Friedrich Thormeyer with the building of a flight of stairs at the western end to reach the terrace from Castle Square and Augustus Bridge . The Brühl Palace was demolished in the course of the building of the Saxon Ständehaus in 1900. The ensemble was totally destroyed in February 1945 when the city was heavily hit by the Allied Bombing of Dresden during the end phase of World War II . Today, it has been rebuilt;
230-451: The bank of the river Elbe , and is located north of the recently rebuilt Neumarkt Square and the Frauenkirche . The present-day terrace was part of the city's fortifications, rebuilt upon the 1546/47 Schmalkaldic War at the behest of Elector Maurice of Saxony and his successors Augustus and Christian . The name Brühl's Terrace is a reference to Count Heinrich von Brühl , Minister of Elector Frederick Augustus II , who from 1737 had
253-544: 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
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#1732772714407276-560: 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
299-634: The precise amount restored is difficult to say as a percentage, but in general one can say the ensemble looks very much the same today as it did in the past. Today, Brühl's Terrace is again one of the main city landmarks besides the Frauenkirche (Church of our Lady), Dresden Castle , the Hofkirche and buildings on Theatre Square such as the Zwinger and the Semperoper , which are all located in
322-453: 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
345-527: 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
368-518: The terrace from the Schlossplatz (Castle Square) on the west end of the terrace. Besides Saxony 's Supreme Court a staircase with four sculptures ( The Four Times of Day ) leads from the Schlossplatz (Castle Square) up to Brühl's Terrace. One of the next buildings to the right is the Academy of Fine Arts. There is an ensemble of important buildings, such as the Albertinum . Brühl's Terrace
391-513: The vicinity. At the Bärenzwinger students' club near the monument for Johann Friedrich Böttger , one can see a fingerprint in a guard rail of the terrace garden. This dactylogram is said to be proof of the strength of Augustus the Strong , who is said to have left the mark - but is only one of many myths surrounding August, such as the legend that he fathered 365 children. Most people enter
414-612: 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
437-635: 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
460-414: 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
483-406: 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
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#1732772714407506-547: 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
529-671: 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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