University of Applied Arts Vienna

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The University of Applied Arts ( " Applied " ) in Vienna is a University of Visual and media arts, architecture and other applied arts such as graphic design, industrial design or fashion design. The main building is located in the 1st district, the Oskar- Kokoschka-Platz ( to 1980 Kopalplatz ), corner room ring 3, the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) directly adjacent.

In the field of Architecture, the University of Applied Arts in a master class principle uses, though this was officially abolished by the university reform of 2002. Greg Lynn, Zaha Hadid and Hani Rashid, within the framework of the current conducted by Klaus Bollinger Institute of Architecture, the architectural design studios 1-3 and teach the students how to deal with new architecture and its presentation.

The University of Applied Arts, founded in 1984 on the initiative of Peter Weibel and the then Rector Oswald Oberhuber the first master class media art in Germany. Since 2001, the master class is run as a Digital Art Department and directed by media artist Ruth Schnell since 2010.

For the University of Applied Arts an admission restriction applies with entrance exam. However, to be included everyone who fulfills the potential. The regulation is open at the top and the exam is only for aptitude test of students.

History

On March 7, 1863, the founding of the k.k. was Austrian Museum for Art and Industry (usually referred to simply as Austrian Museum ) after many years of effort Rudolf Eitelberger by Emperor Franz Joseph on the initiative of his brother Archduke Rainer. Rudolf von Eitelberger, the first professor of art history at the University of Vienna, was appointed a director. The museum essentially followed the model of the company founded in 1852 the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria & Albert Museum ) in London and should serve as role models collection for artists, industrialists, and public and as a training and education center for designers and craftsmen.

1866-1871 the museum was on a short time before the newly created office ring 5 built according to plans by Heinrich Ferstel in Renaissance style. It was the first built museum building on the ring. 1867 was the establishment of the k.k. Arts and Crafts School of k.k. Austrian Museum for Art and Industry held in 1868 in the former gun factory, 9, Währinger Straße 11-13 / Schwarzspanierstrasse 17 (now the 1886 newly built Anatomical Institute of the Medical University of Vienna ) housed. This theoretical and practical training were united. There was a consistent - spatial and institutional - Separation of artistic and art and crafts education.

On November 4, 1871, the museum building was opened on the room ring. There, objects could be placed permanently broken and the material focuses. The School of Applied Arts moved here. 1875-1877 was followed by the construction of an adjacent new building for the School of Applied Arts at the facility Ring 3, also designed by Heinrich Ferstel.

1897, Arthur von Scala, by then director of the Imperial Oriental Museum (later trading Museum ), the direction of the Museum of Art and Industry and won Otto Wagner, Felician of Myrbach, Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann and Alfred Roller as an employee of the Museum and the School of Applied Arts.

As a result of clashes between Scala and the Arts and Crafts Association (1884 based), which saw its influence wane in the museum, Archduke Rainer in 1898 resigned from his position as protector, and it was approved by a resolution dated November 28, 1898 new statutes. 1900, the Administration of Museum and Arts School has been disconnected.

1906-1908 was the museum's expansion in the Weiskirchnerstraße 3 by Ludwig Baumann. In 1909 it came to the separation of Arts School and Museum of Art and Industry.

1919 followed the now republican Austria was renamed School of Applied Arts of the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry. As of 1921, the School of Applied Arts of the Austrian Museum for Art and Industry as Federal College and in 1931 was designated as a federal institution.

In 1937 under the dictatorship Schuschnigg government renamed the State School of Applied Arts Vienna in 1941 under the Nazi dictatorship in Reich College of Applied Arts Vienna, 1945 after re-establishment of the Republic of Austria University of Applied Arts in Vienna and 1948 in the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna.

1962-1965 was the expansion of the Academy in the late Oskar- Kokoschka-Platz, designed by Karl Schwanzer. 1971 was the renaming held in College of Applied Arts, October 1, 1998, the university in accordance with the Federal Act on the Organisation of Universities of the Arts ( KUOG ) to the university.

Fields of study

Graduate studies ( Mag arch., Mag. )

  • Architecture ( 10 semesters )
  • Industrial Design (10 semesters)
  • Visual Arts ( 8 semesters) Study areas: sculpture, graphics, painting, ceramics, photography
  • Study areas: Graphic Design, Graphic Design and Advertising, Landscape Design, Fashion Design
  • Study areas: Cross-media Art and Digital Art
  • Art Education, Textile Design, Handicrafts

Bachelor Studies (BA - Bachelor of Arts)

  • Language arts (6 semesters)
  • Trans Arts ( 6 semesters)

Master Studies (MA - Master of Arts )

  • Art & Science (4 semesters)
  • Trans Arts ( 4 semesters)
  • Social Design - Arts as Urban Innovation ( 4 semesters, starting in October 2012)

Doctoral studies

  • Doctorate (6 semesters) Dr. phil., Dr. rer. nat., Dr. techn.

Postgraduate Studies

Art & Economy

Art & Economy is an extra-occupational, post-graduate university course with respect to art and economics and takes a total of 4 semesters. The training is aimed at arts and cultural sector on the road to independence, graduates of art or cultural theoretical studies as well as people who want to be involved in arts and cultural management.

Exhibition and Cultural Communication Management

Exhibition and Cultural Communication Management is a postgraduate course with the aim of scientific foundation and professionalization of cultural work in the expanded museum and exhibition field and takes a total of 4 semesters.

Urban Strategies

Urban Strategies is a post-graduate course, which as a field of action of architectural production in the priority areas of research and design investigated the issue of town and takes a total of 3 semester.

Fashion Class

In the course of studies fashion design head of the so-called mode class ( Master class for fashion ) transferred a prominent fashion designer as a ' professor on time ' since 1980. The multimode had been established at the former School of Applied Arts by Eduard Josef Wimmer- Wisgrill, who led the fashion department from 1925 to 1955. He was followed by Gertrud Höchsmann (1959-1972) and Fred Adlmüller ( 1973-1979 ). Oswald Oberhuber appointed as rector of the university 1980, fashion designer, then working for the French fashion house Chloé Karl Lagerfeld as a visiting professor at the university. Since then, other designers were obliged to have contributed to the international reputation of the university.

Well-known graduates and high school teachers

  • Friedrich Achleitner ( born 1930 ), Austrian architect
  • Christian Ludwig Attersee ( born 1940 ), Austrian artist
  • Wander Bertoni ( born 1925 ), Austrian sculptor
  • Maria Biljan - Bilger (1912-1997), Austrian sculptor
  • Rudolf Burger ( b. 1938 ), Austrian philosopher
  • Hartmut Esslinger ( born 1944 ), German product designer
  • Adolph Johannes Fischer (1885-1936), Austrian painter, writer and art collector
  • Rainer Ganahl (* 1961), Austrian-American Artist
  • Bruno Gironcoli (1936-2010), Austrian painter and sculptor
  • Thomas Goerge (* 1973), German artist and stage
  • Zaha Hadid ( born 1950 ), Iraqi architect
  • Haerdtl Oswald (1899-1959), Austrian architect
  • Matthias Herrmann ( born 1963 ), German photographer
  • Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956), Austrian architect
  • Hans Hollein ( born 1934 ), Austrian architect
  • William Wood Bauer ( born 1930 ), Austrian architect
  • Birgit Jürgenssen (1949-2003), Austrian artist
  • Oliver Kartak (* 1968 ), Austrian graphic designer
  • Erika Giovanna Klien (1900-1957), Austrian / American painter
  • Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), Austrian painter
  • Hans Knesl (1905-1971), Austrian sculptor
  • Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980), Austrian painter
  • Kowanz (* 1957), Austrian lighting artist
  • Greg Lynn (born 1964 ), American architect, philosopher and science fiction writer
  • Dorit Margreiter (* 1967), Austrian photographer, video and installation artist
  • Mara Mattuschka (* 1959), Austrian artist
  • Oswald Oberhuber (* 1931), Austrian painter, sculptor and graphic artist
  • Robert Pfaller (* 1962 ), Austrian philosopher
  • Walter Pichler (1936-2012), Austrian sculptor, architect, draftsman and object artist
  • Paolo Piva ( born 1950 ), Italian architect and designer
  • Hani Rashid (born 1958 ), Canadian architect
  • Wolf D. Prix ( * 1942 ), Austrian architect
  • Florian Pumhösl (* 1971 ), Austrian artist
  • Pipilotti Rist ( b. 1962 ), Swiss video artist
  • Constanze Ruhm (* 1965), Austrian video artist
  • Rockenschaub (* 1952 ), Austrian artist
  • Stefan Sagmeister (born 1962 ), Austrian graphic designer
  • Hans Schabus ( * 1970 ), Austrian artist
  • Eva Schlegel ( * 1960 ), Austrian photographer
  • Norbert Schlesinger (1908-1980), Austrian architect
  • Ferdinand Schmatz (1953 ), Austrian writer
  • Burghart Schmidt ( * 1942), German philosopher
  • Franz Schuster (1892-1972), Austrian architect
  • Margarete Schütte- Lihotzky (1897-2000), Austrian architect
  • Hubert Sielecki ( b. 1946 ), Austrian filmmaker animation
  • Johannes Spalt (1920-2010), Austrian architect
  • Oskar Strnad (1879-1935), Austrian architect
  • Mario Terzic (* 1945 ), Austrian landscape designer
  • Peter Weibel (* 1944), Ukrainian- Austrian media artist
  • Leo Wollner (1925-1995), Austrian textile designer
  • Erwin Wurm (born 1954 ), Austrian artist
  • Virgil Widrich ( * 1967 ), Austrian director
  • Otto Zitko (* 1959 ), Austrian artist
  • Frohner (1934-2007), Austrian painter and performance artist
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