Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) is a public art school in Vienna, Austria. Founded in 1688 as a private academy, it is now a public university.
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Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

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The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien) is a public art school in Vienna, Austria. Founded in 1688 as a private academy, it is now a public university.
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• Name — Academy of Fine Arts Vienna • Native Name — Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien • Type — Public • Rector — Johan Frederik Hartle • City — Vienna • Country — Austria • Students — 1,268 (2010) • Website — akbild.ac.at
History
History
The Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna was founded in 1688 as a private academy modelled on the Accademia di San Luca and the Parisian Académie de peinture et de sculpture by the court-painter Peter Strudel, who became the Praefectus Academiae Nostrae. In 1701, he was ennobled by Emperor Joseph I as Freiherr (Baron) of the Empire. With his death in 1714, the academy temporarily closed.[1] • Illustration — Life drawing room at the Vienna academy, Martin Ferdinand Quadal, 1787 On 20 January 1725, Emperor Charles VI appointed the Frenchman Jacob van Schuppen as Prefect and Director of the academy, which was refounded as the k.k. Hofakademie der Maler, Bildhauer und Baukunst (Imperial and Royal Court Academy of painters, sculptors and architecture). Upon Charles's death in 1740, the academy at first declined, however during the rule of his daughter Empress Maria Theresa, a new statute reformed the academy in 1751. The prestige of the academy grew during the deanships of Michelangelo Unterberger and Paul Troger, and in 1767 the archduchesses Maria Anna and Maria Carolina were made the first Honorary Members. In 1772, there were further reforms to the organisational structure. In 1776, the engraver Jakob Matthias Schmutzer founded a school of engraving. This Imperial-Royal Academy of Engraving in the Annagasse soon competed with the Court Academy. Chancellor Wenzel Anton Kaunitz integrated all existing art academies into the k.k. vereinigten Akademie der bildenden Künste (Imperial and Royal Unified Academy of Fine Arts). The word "vereinigten" (unified) was later dropped. In 1822 the art cabinet grew significantly with the bequest of honorary member Anton Franz de Paula Graf Lamberg-Sprinzenstein. His collection still forms the backbone of the art on display.[2] • Illustration — Main entrance on Schillerplatz In 1872, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria approved a statute making the academy the supreme government authority for the arts. A new building was constructed according to plans designed by Theophil Hansen in the course of the layout of the Ringstraße boulevard. On[3] 3 April 1877, the present-day building on Schillerplatz in the Innere Stadt district was inaugurated, the interior works, including ceiling frescos by Anselm Feuerbach, continued until completion in 1892. In 1907 and 1908, young Adolf Hitler, who had come from Linz, was twice denied admission to the drawing class by academy professor Christian Griepenkerl.[4] He stayed in Vienna, subsisting on his orphan allowance, and tried unsuccessfully to continue his profession as an artist. Soon he had withdrawn into poverty and started selling his amateur paintings, mostly watercolours, for meagre sustenance until he left Vienna for Munich in May 1913.[5] • Illustration — Fragment of the main building of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna • Illustration — Anatomical room of the Akademie During the Austrian Anschluss to Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945, the academy, like other Austrian universities, was forced to purge its staff and student body of Jews and others who fell under the purview of the racially discriminatory Nuremberg Laws.[6] After World War II, the academy was reconstituted in 1955 and its autonomy reconfirmed. Eduard von Josch, the secretary of the academy, was dismissed for being a member of the Nazi Party. The academy has had university status since 1998, but retained its original name. It is currently the only Austrian university without the word "university" in its name.
Structure
Structure
The academy is divided into the following institutes:[7] • Institute for Fine Arts, which houses thirteen departments: Abstract Painting; Art and Digital Media; Art and Photography; Arts and Research; Conceptual Art; Contextual Painting; Expanded Pictorial Space; Figurative Painting; Graphic Arts and Printmaking Techniques; Object Sculpture; Performative Art – Sculpture; Video and Video-installation; Textual Sculpture[8] • Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies (art theory, philosophy, history); • Institute for Conservation and Restoration; • Institute for Natural Sciences and Technologies in Art; • Institute for Secondary School Teaching Degrees (craft, design, textile arts); • Institute for Art and Architecture. The academy currently has about 900 students, almost a quarter of whom are foreign students. Its faculty includes "stars" such as Peter Sloterdijk. Its library houses about 110,000 volumes and its "etching cabinet" (Kupferstichkabinett) has about 150,000 drawings and prints. The collection is one of the biggest in Austria, and is used for academic purposes, although portions are also open to the general public.
Notable alumni
Notable alumni
• Maria Anwander • Alois Arnegger • Joannis Avramidis • William Berczy • Amoako Boafo • Bernhard Cella • Georg Decker • Ludwig Deutsch • Naomi Devil • Helmut Ditsch • Karl Duldig • Slawa Duldig • George Dury • Antonín Engel • Manfred Erjautz • Joseph Fleck • Richard Gach • Victor Gruen[9] • Sigurður Guðjónsson • Helmuth Gräff • Alice Berger Hammerschlag • Cecil van Haanen • Gottfried Helnwein • Wolfgang Hollegha • Hans Hollein • Alfred Hrdlička * • Paja Jovanović • Eszter Katalin • Hermine Lang-Laris • Gottfried Lindauer • Franz Xaver Messerschmidt • Vera Nedkova • Ernst Plischke • Uroš Predić • Heinrich Rauchinger • Constantin Daniel Rosenthal • Ara Sargsyan • Egon Schiele • Rudolph Michael Schindler • Othmar Schimkowitz • Frigyes Schulek • Theodor Sockl • Willi Soukop • Hito Steyerl • Katrin Lea Tag • Otto Wagner • Jacob Weidenmann • Erwin Wurm • Bruno Zach
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1692
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna established.
1692
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is recorded from 1692.
1692
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna was established or created on 1 January 1692.
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Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is recorded at coordinates 48.2013, 16.3651.
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Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is recorded at coordinates 48.2014, 16.3653.
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• Karl Aigen (1684–1762), student, director and professor • Oz Almog, (born 1956) • Alois Arnegger (1879–1963) • Joannis Avramidis (1922–2016) • Peter Behrens (1868–1940) • Sabeth Buchmann (born 1962) • Menci Clement Crnčić (1865–1930) • Konstantin Danil (1802–1873) • Saeed Danosian (1979–1985) • Diedrich Diederichsen (born 1957) • Andrea Maria Dusl (born 1961) • Thomas Ender (1793–1875) • Harun Farocki (1944–2014) • Anselm Feuerbach (1829–1880), professor (1873) • Emil Fuchs (1866–1929) • Ernst Fuchs (1930–2015) • Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger (1805–1880), professor • Richard Gerstl (1883–1908) • Edwin Grienauer (1893–1964) • Gottfried Helnwein (born 1948) • F. Scott Hess (born 1955) • Clemens Holzmeister (1886–1983) • Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000) • Li Hua (artist, born 1980) • Greta Kempton (1901–1991) • Anton Lehmden (1929–2018) • Maximilian Liebenwein (1869–1926) • Leopold Matzal (1890–1956) • Franz Anton Maulbertsch (1724–1796) • Ludwig Merwart (1913–1979) • Joseph Mössmer (1780–1845) • Caspar Neher (1897–1962) • Gustav Peichl (1928–2019) • Elmar Peintner (born 1954)[12] • August von Pettenkofen (1822–1889) • Johann Georg Platzer (1704–1761) • Roland Rainer (1910–2004) • Daniel Richter (born 1962) • Ferdinand Schebek (1875–1949) • Rudolph Schwarz (1840–1912) • Robert Sedlacek (1881–1957) • Nasrine Seraji (born 1957) • Tamuna Sirbiladze (1971–2016) • Hito Steyerl (born 1966) • Paul Troger (1698–1762) • Norbert Troller (1900–1984)) • Rudolf von Alt (1812–1905) • Friedrich von Schmidt (1825–1891) • Henrik Weber (1818–1866) • Kurt Weiss (1895–1966) • Albert Zimmermann (1808–1888) • Timo Penttilä (1931–2011) • Herbert Smagon (1927–2007) • Jan Styka (1858–1925)
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The circumstances in which Academy of Fine Arts Vienna stands. Established or created on 1 January 1692. Recorded at coordinates 48.2014, 16.3653. Recorded at coordinates 48.2013, 16.3651. Recorded as public university. Vienna has its headquarters at Vienna. Founded by Peter Strudel. Vienna lies within Innere Stadt. Situated in Austria. Constitution and standing. It is classified as academy of fine arts, art museum and university. It comprises Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien.
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- 1.Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. History of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Vienna Academy of Fine Arts Website. 2021.
- 2.History of the art collection. ]a[ akademie der bildenden künste wien.
- 3.Academy of Fine Arts, Picture Gallery. vienna.info.
- 4.Mommsen, Hans. The Third Reich Between Vision and Reality: New Perspectives on German History 1918-1945. Berg Publishers. 34. 2001-04-01. 978-1-85973-254-0.
- 5.Pruitt, Sarah. When Hitler Tried (and Failed) to Be an Artist. HISTORY.
- 6.Pawlowsky, Verena. Die Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien im Nationalsozialismus : Lehrende, Studierende und Verwaltungspersonal. Böhlau Verlag. 2015. 978-3-205-20291-2.
- 7.Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Institutes.
- 8.Departments. ]a[ akademie der bildenden künste wien.
- 9.Fowler, Susanne. Gloves Fit for a Queen, With Hands-On Craftsmanship. The New York Times. 23 November 2014.
- 10.Tyler, Linda. Plischke, Ernst Anton. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.
- 11.Сарксян Ара Мигранович. Большая российская энциклопедия - электронная версия (The Great Russian Encyclopedia 2004–2017, web ver.).
- 12.Elmar Peintner. Biography. March 2023.
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