Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf is the Arts Academy of the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. Notable artists who attended the academy include Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Gotthard Graubner, Ruth Rogers-Altmann, Sigmar Polke, Anselm Kiefer and photographers Thomas Ruff, Thomas Demand, Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky and Candida Höfer. In the stairway of its main entrance, are engraved the Words: "Für unsere Studenten nur das Beste" ("For our Students only the Best").
Early history
The school was founded by Lambert Krahe in 1762 as a school of drawing. The first female professor, Catharina Treu, was appointed in 1766. In 1773, it became the "Kurfürstlich-Pfälzische Academie der Maler, Bildhauer- und Baukunst" (Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of the Electorate of the Palatinate). During the Napoleonic Wars, the count palatine's art collection was inherited by the Wittelsbach family and moved to Munich, prompting the Prussian government—who had annexed the Düsseldorf region after Napoleon had surrendered—to change it into a Royal Arts Academy in Düsseldorf, in 1819.
In the 1850s, the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf became internationally renowned, with many students coming from Scandinavia, Russia and the United States to learn, among other things, the genre and landscape painting associated with the "Düsseldorf school".[1][2]
Düsseldorf School of Photography
Students of Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Düsseldorf School of Photography have included Laurenz Berges, Elger Esser, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Simone Nieweg, Thomas Ruff, Jörg Sasse, Thomas Struth, Petra Wunderlich.[3] The academy has its own museum: the academy gallery (near to the historic city hall). The new director, Rita McBride, will open the academy to new media such as 3D printing. Every February the academy opens to the public, an event which is called Rundgang[4] (tour).
Directors
- 1773–1789 Lambert Krahe
- 1789–1806 Johann Peter von Langer
- 1819–1824 Peter von Cornelius
- 1826–1859 Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow
- 1859–1867 Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann
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- 1895–1908 Johann Peter Theodor Janssen
- 1826–1859 Wilhelm von Schadow
- 1908–1924 Fritz Roeber
- 1924–1933 Walter Kaesbach
- 1933–1937 Peter Grund
- 1937–1945 Emil Fahrenkamp
- 1945–1946 Ewald Mataré
- 1946–1949 Werner Heuser
- 1949–1954 Heinrich Kamps
- 1956–1965 Hans Schwippert
- 1965–1972 Eduard Trier
- 1972–1981 Norbert Kricke
- 1981–1988 Irmin Kamp
- 1988–2009 Markus Lüpertz
- 2009–2013 Tony Cragg
- 2013–2017 Rita McBride
- since 2017 Karl-Heinz Petzinka[5]
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References
- "World Class: The Düsseldorf School of Painting 1819–1918". Archived from the original on 28 May 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
- Wend von Kalnein, Rolf Andree and Ute Ricke-Immel, The Hudson and the Rhine: Die Amerikanische Malerkolonie in Düsselsdorf im 19. Jahrhundert, exhibition catalog, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, 1976.
- Stefan Gronert: Die Düsseldorfer Photoschule. Photographien 1961–2008. 2009, S. 15.
- "Rundgang". www.kunstakademie-duesseldorf.de. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
- Zeitung, Westdeutsche. "Düsseldorf: Architekt Karl-Heinz Petzinka leitet die Kunstakademie Düsseldorf". Westdeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
- Kurzbiographie zu Hermann Becke, in Der wunderbare Leuchter Märchen von Hermann Becker, Goethezeit Portal. Retrieved 2 January 2020
- Clausens Kunsthandel. "Maria Buras | Clausens Kunsthandel". Clausenskunsthandel.dk. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
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- "Kunst- und Kulturstadt Kassel". kassel.de: Der offizielle Internetauftritt der Stadt Kassel.
- David, Soleil. "Rita McBride named first female director of kunstakademie Dusseldorf". 24700. CalArts. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
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- "Highlights". kunstaspekte.de. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
- "Gerhard Richter". www.gerhard-richter.com. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
- "Studenten von Prof. Thomas Ruff an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf". www.ruffklasse.de. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
- "HFBK" (in German). Hfbk-hamburg.de. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
- "Myriam Thyes – zeitgenössische Kunst – contemporary digital visual art – video – animation – new media – digital images – photomontage". www.thyes.com. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
- http://kuenstlerdatenbank.ifa.de/datenblatt.php3?ID=76&NAME=trockel&ACTION=kuenstler&SUB_ACTION=1%7C8 Archived 18 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- ONLINE, RP. "Nathalie De Vries". RP ONLINE. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
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