Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School
The Grand Ducal Saxon School of Arts Weimar was an educational institution founded by Grand Duke Carl Alexander of Saxe- Weimar from October 1, 1860 by statute artistic orientation, which existed until 1910, in which it was raised to the rank of an art school ( Grand Ducal Saxon School of Visual Arts in Weimar). It is not to be confused with the Princely free drawing school, which existed from 1776 to 1930 and from 1860 prepared their students in a preliminary step to acceptance into art school.
The Weimar School
The teachers and the students of the Grand Ducal Saxon School of Arts Weimar turned in the years 1870-1900 from the academic tradition of idealized compositions from. Similar to before them the representatives of the Barbizon school in France, she found through the study of nature to a realistic landscape and genre painting. This embossed on the Grand Ducal School of Arts flow went down in art history as Weimar School.
The Acts of the Weimar School has worked Scheidig Walther (1902-1977), who was the head of the State Art Collections to Weimar many years.
Succession
Under Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Saxe- Weimar Grand Ducal Saxon School of Arts Weimar was the painter Hans Olde (1855-1917) involving Adolf Brütt (1855-1939) as head of the newly founded Weimar school of sculpture (1905 ) and the Henry van de Velde (1863-1957) led Grand Ducal Saxon School of Applied Arts in Weimar (1908 ) to a Grand Ducal Saxon Academy of Fine Arts in Weimar expanded (June 3, 1910). In 1910, Fritz Mackensen director of the university.
The Walter still employed by Ernst Wilhelm Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1919, carved out of the April 1, 1921, the State University of Fine Arts and the Bauhaus in 1925 was completely dissolved. Under Otto Banning (1883-1959), the Weimar institutions available to the State and Bauhochschule School of Crafts and Architecture were summarized. A reorganization as State universities for architecture, visual arts and crafts in Weimar was under Paul Schultze -Naumburg (1 April 1930). Under the direction of Gerd Offenberg ten years later came the College of Architecture and Fine Arts at the rank of an Institute of Technology. Hermann Henselmann (1905-1995) led the university from 1946 to 1951 on. The following College of Architecture and Civil Engineering was restructured far-reaching since the political changes in 1989 and has been contributing to 17 May 1996 act on behalf of Bauhaus University Weimar.
The art school building
(Also called " studio building " ) The art school building was opposite the Arts and Crafts school building from 1905/ 06 constructed in two phases in 1904 /05 and 1911 at the former art school road to the plans of Henry van de Velde. Both buildings are committed to the youth style and expression for the incipient renewal of the architecture based on a functional and appropriate for the materials creating. As a founding place of the Bauhaus in 1919, it is one of the most important art school of the century. Particularly noteworthy in the interior of the building are the murals of Bayer and Schmidt, Oberlichtsaal, the elliptic-shaped staircase and the " Eve" by Auguste Rodin.
In December 1996 the art school building was added together with the arts and crafts school construction ( Van -de- Velde Building ) in the UNESCO World Heritage List. 1999 den Valentyn largely restored by the restoration by the architect Thomas van der original state, belonged among others, the 1923 was designed as a " total work of art " for the " Great Bauhaus exhibition" Gropiuszimmer (Director Room by Walter Gropius ), which in its original state until the spring of 1925 existed.
The main building of the Bauhaus University Weimar in sibling -Scholl -Straße 8, it is now used by the Faculty of Architecture at the dean's office, the Department of Design and the rector.
List of teachers and leaders of the Grand Ducal Saxon School of Arts Weimar
This list is sorted by the date of appointment. It makes no claim to completeness.
List of Students of the Grand Duchy of Saxony Weimar art school
This list is not exhaustive.
- Carl Arp, Hans Arp, Paul Baum, Max Beckmann, Ella Bergmann- Michel, Hugo L. Brown, Ferdinand Brütt, Karl Buchholz, Julius Victor Carstens, Paul Eduard Crodel, Hans Delbrück, Mathilde Baroness von Freytag- Loringhoven, Ludwig von Gleichen- Russwurm, Franz Emil Goepfart, Carl Gussow, August Haake, Wilhelm Hase man, Ivo Hauptmann, Rudolf Höckner, Wilhelm Hörmann, Franz Friedrich Hoffmann- Faller life, Otto Illies, Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth, Otto von Kameke, Fritz Lattke, Max Liebermann, Carl Malchin, Carlo Mense, Benedict Momme Nissen, Eduard Morres, Alexander Olbricht, Otto Piltz, Leon Pohle, Louis Preller, Adolf Rettelbusch, Hans Richter, Christian Rohlfs, Carl Schaller, Paul Thumann, Minna Tube, Eduard Weichberger, Erich Windbichler, Adolf Ziegler, Emil Zschimmer, Erika Zschimmer (daughter of Emil Zschimmer ).