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The Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (HFBK Hamburg) is the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg . It dates to 1767, when it was called the Hamburger Gewerbeschule ; later it became known as Landeskunstschule Hamburg . The main building, located in the Uhlenhorst quarter of Hamburg-Nord borough, was designed by architect Fritz Schumacher , and built between 1911 and 1913. In 1970, it was accredited as an artistic-scientific university.

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20-731: The Hamburger Gewerbeschule (Hamburg Vocational School) was founded in 1767 by the Patriotische Gesellschaft (Patriotic Society). It was named the Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts or School of Applied Arts) in 1896, later the Landeskunstschule Hamburg (State School of Art). Fritz Schumacher designed the main building especially for the art school. Located at Am Lerchenfeld 2 in Uhlenhorst,

40-815: A building on what is now the Straße des 17. Juni, which now belongs to the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1964 the art school was called the Staatliche Werkkunstschule , and from 1966 the Staatliche Akademie für Werkkunst und Mode (State academy for applied arts and fashion). In 1971, it was integrated into the Hochschule für Bildende Künste . In 1975, this became the Hochschule der Künste Berlin , which since 2001 has been

60-457: A four-year course, in which they were given a general education and also learnt specific arts and craft skills such as weaving, metalwork, painting, sculpting, etc. Some of the most well known artists of the period had been Kunstgewerbeschule students, including Anni Albers , Peter Behrens , René Burri , Otto Dix , Karl Duldig , Horst P. Horst , Gustav Klimt , Oskar Kokoschka , Egon Schiele and Oskar Schlemmer . Many students accepted into

80-749: A number of former students and teachers from the Bauhaus went to work at the school, including: Gerhard Marcks , the Rector from 1928-1933; Hans Wittwer , who ran the Architecture department; Benita Koch-Otte , who ran the weaving workshop; Marguerite Friedländer and Erich Consemüller . When the Nazis came to power in 1933, these people and other staff considered to be avant-garde were dismissed. The Painting, Graphic Design, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography and Carpentry workshops were all closed. In 1938 it

100-548: A quarter of Hamburg-Nord , it was built between 1911 and 1913. After World War II, it re-opened as the Landeskunstschule by Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann , who had previously been a professor at the Kölner Werkschulen (Cologne Academy of Fine Arts). He was succeeded by architect Gustav Hassenpflug , who changed the institution to the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg . The school was accredited as

120-873: A university in 1970. In July 2007, a scandal occurred when the university administration under Martin Köttering came under political pressure to expel students for having protested newly introduced tuition fees. Joerg Draeger and the Hamburg Senate , dominated by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) demanded expulsion of more than half of the art students for having taken part in a tuition boycott. The scandal gained nationwide press coverage. In June 2008, about 680 students were enrolled at HFBK Hamburg. Two stolpersteine – memorials to victims of Nazism – were laid for two faculty members in 2009 by then president of HFBK Peter Hess and members of

140-470: Is also one of Germany's few art colleges with full university status. Outstanding professors and students at all its colleges, as well as the steady development of teaching concepts, have publicly defined the university as a high standard of artistic and art-theoretical education. Almost all the study courses at Berlin University of the Arts are part of a centuries-old tradition. Thus Berlin University of

160-504: The Berlin State School of Fine Arts founded in 1875. In 1975, both art schools merged under the name Hochschule der Künste Berlin, HdK . The organization received the title of a university on 1 November 2001. The exchange program with UDK is a direct enrollment program offered during the fall, spring, and academic year to students interested in the arts and with four semesters of German language study. Each academic year

180-569: The Fürstliche freie Zeichenschule Weimar ( Weimar Princely Free Drawing School ), which existed from 1776-1930, and the Staatliche Bauschule Weimar (State Architecture / Building Trades School). After various mergers, restructurings and renamings, the present day Bauhaus-Universität Weimar , founded in 1996 after German reunification , operates on the former Bauhaus site, teaching art and design related courses. Quite

200-659: The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK) ( Berlin University of the Arts ). A separate school, on a neighbouring site, the Großherzoglich-Sächsische Kunstschule Weimar ( Grand-Ducal Saxon Art School, Weimar ), was founded in 1860 and 1910 it became a higher education institute named the Großherzoglich Sächsische Hochschule für Bildende Kunst (Grand-Ducal Saxon School for Fine Arts). In 1919

220-511: The performing arts with around 3,500 students. Thus the UdK is one of only three universities in Germany to unite the faculties of art and music in one institution. The teaching offered at the four colleges encompasses the full spectrum of the arts and related academic studies in more than 40 courses. Having the right to confer doctorates and post-doctoral qualifications, Berlin University of the Arts

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240-459: The Art of Painting, Pictorial Art, and Architecture), the later Prussian Academy of Arts , at the behest of Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg . The two predecessor organisations were Königliche Akademische Hochschule für ausübende Tonkunst (Royal Academy of Musical Performing Art) established in 1869 under Joseph Joachim , which also had adopted the tradition of the famous Stern Conservatory , and

260-796: The Arts The Universität der Künste Berlin ( UdK ; also known in English as the Berlin University of the Arts ), situated in Berlin , Germany , is the largest art school in Europe . It is a public art and design school, and one of the four research universities in the city. The university is known for being one of the biggest and most diversified universities of the arts worldwide. It has four colleges specialising in fine arts , architecture , media and design , music and

280-405: The Arts gives its students the opportunity to investigate and experiment with other art forms in order to recognise and extend the boundaries of their own discipline, at an early stage of rigorously selected artists and within the protected sphere of a study course. Within the field of visual arts , the university is known for the intense competition that involves the selection of its students, and

300-977: The Hamburg-Walddörfer Lions Club . The stolpersteine were laid for Friedrich Adler , who taught at the Kunstgewerbeschule from 1907 until his forced retirement in 1933, who was killed in Auschwitz in 1942, and Hugo Meier-Thur , who taught from 1910 to 1943, was killed at Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp in 1943. This list includes alumni from University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, listed by last name alphabetical order. This list includes present and past academic staff, listed by last name alphabetical order. 53°34′3″N 10°1′53″E  /  53.56750°N 10.03139°E  / 53.56750; 10.03139 Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule A Kunstgewerbeschule (English: School of Arts and Crafts or S chool of Applied Arts )

320-633: The buildings used by the former Kunstgewerbeschule and the neighbouring Hochschule für Bildende Kunst became the base of the newly founded Bauhaus art school. The buildings, designed by Henry van de Velde between 1904 and 1911, are now part of the Bauhaus World Heritage Site . The Bauhaus moved from Weimar to Dessau in 1925. The buildings in Weimar were used by successor arts related educational institutions. There were also other art schools, at other sites, in Weimar, including

340-443: The growth of applicants worldwide has increased during the years due to Berlin's important current role in cultural innovation worldwide. In the same way, the University of the Arts is publicly recognized for being on the cutting edge in the areas of Visual Arts , Fashion Design , Industrial Design , and Experimental Design . The university's origins date back to the foundation of Academie der Mal-, Bild- und Baukunst (Academy of

360-546: The renowned Bauhaus art school had previously studied at Kunstgewerbeschulen. In order of date opened: During the Nazi period, in 1936, the school was renamed the Meisterschule des deutschen Handwerks der Reichshauptstadt (Master school of German trades of the imperial capital city). After the war it was again renamed as the Meisterschule für das Kunsthandwerk (Master school for arts and crafts). In 1952 it moved into

380-500: Was a type of vocational arts school that existed in German-speaking countries from the mid-19th century. The term Werkkunstschule was also used for these schools. From the 1920s and after World War II , most of them either merged into universities or closed, although some continued until the 1970s. Students generally started at these schools from the ages of 16 to 20 years old, although sometimes as young as 14, and undertook

400-741: Was renamed the Meisterschule des Deutschen Handwerks auf Burg Giebichenstein Halle-Saale, Werkstätten der Stadt Halle (Master school of German Trades at Burg Giebichenstein Halle-Saale). "Meisterschule" was a term used by the Nazis; after World War II the school had a number of name changes. In 2011 it became the Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle  [ de ] (Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design). Berlin University of

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