Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

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The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is a public art school in Vienna ( Austria ), and one of Europe's oldest art academies.

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History

The Vienna Academy of Art was founded in 1692 as a private academy of Hofkammermalers Peter Strudel along the lines of the Accademia di San Luca, which he put in the spaces built by him Strudelhof available. The Academy was sponsored by Joseph I. and converted into an Imperial Institute in 1705. After the death of strudel in 1714 the activities of the Academy was temporarily suspended. 1725 took place under Charles VI. by Jacob van shed a new foundation as Kk Hofakademie the painter, sculptor and architecture, which moved in 1731 to the Schoenbrunn house under the Tuchlauben. This was after 1740 less and less support from the farm, so she was transferred to van shed private house and finally stopped the lessons. 1750 Hofakademie the supervision of Oberhof building director Adam Philipp Losy of Losinthal was assumed that they shed after van death in 1751 revived as a protector first took over their line and gave her a Rector Constitution.

1751-1754 and 1757-1758 Michelangelo Unterberger Rector was the kk Academie. The title "rector magnificus " was first awarded in 1751 by Empress Maria Theresa. 1754-1757 Paul Troger was rector of the Academy.

1772 all existing at that time in Vienna art colleges were merged to form an academy of " united fine arts ". 1786 moved the Academy in St. Annahof (Vienna). It was there held public art exhibitions. In 1872 received the Academy university status. In 1998 the Academy - the same name as the Academy of Fine Arts - University.

1999/2000 which had existed since 1850 Breakdown by master schools by the following university institutes has been replaced:

• Institute of Art and Architecture ( five professorships architecture, one for stage )
• Institute of Fine Arts ( eight professorships painting, graphic art and media art, three Ordinariate sculpture)
• Institute of Science and Technology in Art ( 2 Ordinariates: Restoration and Conservation, Science / Technology )
• Institute for Education in the Arts ( three Ordinariates: Art education, business education and Textile Design )
• Department of Art and Cultural Studies ( five Ordinariates: art history, philosophy, cultural studies, philosophy of culture, etc.)

The student protests in Austria In 2009, with a common occupation of the hall of the Academy by students and teachers in their beginning. Martina Pfingstl, one of the initiators, was elected a short time as the first student to chairman of the Senate an Austrian university later.

The building on Schiller Square

Since April 1, 1877, the Academy is located in the Academy Building on Schiller Square in the 1st district of Vienna. In connection with the construction of the ring road, the new building of the Academy was approved in 1871. The plans for this project come from Theophil Hansen (1813-1891), the head of a special school for architecture at the Academy. The construction work on the lime market (today Schiller Square) devoured 1,200,000 guilders and lasted until 1877. The building of the Academy was established in the Italian Renaissance style, with four storeys increased projections. On April 3, 1877, the grand opening of the new building in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph I. was the artistic design of the interiors lasted until 1892; The ceiling paintings in the auditorium are from Anselm Feuerbach.

In the years 1898 and 1910 Otto Wagner submitted designs for the new Academy on the enamel, but have not been realized.

Showrooms

Collection of teaching resources: picture gallery, Prints and Drawings

Both collections - paintings gallery and Print Room - are connected to the academy and applied on the task and determination as a " collection of teaching resources " for the students of the Academy. While the Vienna operation many art treasures were destroyed by aerial bombs.

• Picture Gallery: The Picture Gallery contains 250 paintings by famous masters from the early Italian panel paintings from the 14th and 15th century to paintings within the Academy from the 18th and early 19th century. There are among the Weltgerichtstriptychon by Hieronymus Bosch, as well as works by Lucas Cranach, Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens, Titian, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and Giovanni Antonio Guardi. The ' art gallery ' is open to the public as a museum, and is located in the building of the Academy at the Schiller Square ( opening times: Tuesday - Sunday 10.00 am - 18.00 clock, Monday closed)
• Prints and Drawings: is one of the most important Austrian graphic collections

Madonna with Child and Two Angels Sandro Botticelli 1490

The Circumcision of Christ, Peter Paul Rubens 1605

Juvenile Self Portrait, Anthony van Dyck in 1615

The anatomical hall

The anatomical theater in the basement of the Academy of Fine Arts has remained contain almost unchanged, only the pedestal is from the year 1928. A particularly valuable piece is the dissecting table with marble top, which is provided with gutters and in the middle with an opening to body fluids derive. The hall with the arranged in a semi circle benches gets no natural light, so it is more suitable for theoretical lectures as for drawing. Only one professor, Ernst Anton von Frisch, who was head of the 1874-1906 anatomy teaching at the Academy actually took, here dissections. The anatomical drawing takes place at the Museum of the History of Medicine ( Josephinum ), in art museums, in the Pathological- Anatomical Museum Federal ( Fool's Tower ), and the Anatomical Institute held in the Währingerstraße. The anatomical hall was used by the Burgtheater in 2005 for the premiere of Klaus Pohl's piece The anatomist Ignaz Kirchner.

Teaching

Fields of study

• Architecture
• Fine Arts
• Stage design
• Conservation and Restoration
• Artistic teacher
• Doctorate of Philosophy
• Doctorate in Technical Sciences
• Doctoral Programme in Natural Sciences
• Master in Critical Studies
• Phd in Practice

Famous alumni and professors

• Michelangelo Unterberger (1695-1758)
• Martin van Meytens (1695-1770)
• Franz Christoph Janneck (1703-1761)
• Johann Georg Platzer (1704-1761)
• Caspar Franz Sambach (1715-1795)
• Franz Anton Maulbertsch (1724-1796)
• Josef Hauzinger (1728-1786)
• Adolph Johannes Fischer (1885-1936)
• Vinzenz Fischer (1729-1810)
• Franz Xaver Kirchebner (1736-1815)
• Joseph Hickel (1736-1807)
• Anton Hickel (1745-1798)
• Heinrich Friedrich Füger (1751-1818)
• Karel Postl (1769-1818)
• Jacob Schroth (1773-1831)
• Johann Peter Krafft (1780-1856)
• Matthew Loder (1781-1828)
• Josef Arnold the Elder (1788-1879)
• Franz Xaver Petter (1791-1866)
• Thomas Ender (1793-1875)
• Johann Carl Smirsch (1793-1869)
• Ferdinand Georg forest Müller (1793-1865)
• Joseph Edward of Gillern (1794-1845)
• Leopold Kupelwieser (1796-1862)
• Eduard Gurk (1801-1841)
• Friedrich von Amerling (1803-1887)
• Fidelis Schönlaub (1805-1883)
• Friedrich Gauermann (1807-1862)
• Albert Zimmermann (1808-1888)
• Carl Rahl (1812-1865)
• Rudolf von Alt (1812-1905)
• Vincenz Pilz (1816-1896)
• Andreas Lach (1817-1882)
• Carl Wurzinger (1817-1883)
• Eduard von Engerth (1818-1897)
• Emanuel Stöckler (1819-1893)
• Friedrich von Schmidt (1825-1891)
• Anselm Feuerbach (1829-1880), Professor ( 1873)
• August Wörndle of Adelsfried (1829-1902)
• August Eisenmenger (1830-1907)
• Eduard von Lichtenfels (1833-1913)

• August Weber (1836-1903)
• Gottfried Lindauer (1839-1926)
• Otto Wagner (1841-1918)
• Ferdinand Demetz (1842-1902)
• Anton Hlavacek (1842-1926)
• Karl Kaufmann (painter) ( 1843-1905 )
• Mihály Munkácsy (1844-1900)
• Franz Tavella (1844-1931)
• Jettel Eugen (1845-1901)
• Josef Dernjač (1851-1920)
• Alfred Zoff (1852-1927)
• Carl Freiherr von Merode (1853-1909)
• Rodolphe Ernst (1854-1932)
• Eduard Ameseder (1856-1939)
• August Kirstein (1856-1939)
• Bitterly Hans (1860-1949)
• Simon Happy (1863-1943)
• William of Wörndle (1863-1927)
• Peter Markovič (1866-1929)
• Peter Behrens (1868-1940)
• Kamil Hilbert (1869-1933)
• Carl O'Lynch of Town (1869-1942)
• Alexander Pock (1871-1950)
• Rudolf Weber (1872-1949)
• Franz Baumgartner (1876-1946)
• Arnegger Alois (1879-1963)
• Krippel Heinrich (1883-1945)
• Emil Pirchan (1884-1957)
• Karl Sterrer (1885-1972)
• Clemens Wood Master (1886-1983)
• Benjamin Strasser (1888-1955)
• Egon Schiele (1890-1918)
• Alexander Popp (1891-1947)
• Edwin Grienauer (1893-1964)
• Anton Brenner (1896-1957)
• Leopold Hauer (1896-1984)
• Caspar Neher (1897-1962)
• Paul Kassecker (1903-1992)
• Ceno Cossack (1904-1985)
• Hans Knesl (1905-1971)
• Norbert Schlesinger (1908-1980)
• Karl Nieschlag (1909-1975)
• Roland Rainer (1910-2004)
• Heinz Leinfellner (1911-1974)
• Lucas Suppin (1911-1998)

• Merwart Ludwig (1913-1979)
• Sepp Nordegg (1913-1984)
• Rudolf Hausner (1914-1995)
• Ferdinand Welz (1915-2008)
• Rudolf Hoflehner (1916-1995)
• Joannis Avramidis (* 1922)
• Gerhard Swoboda, (1923-1974)
• August Stimpfl (1924-2010)
• Alfred Hrdlicka (1928-2009)
• Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000)
• Gustav Peichl ( b. 1928 )
• Wolfgang Hollegha (* 1929)
• Maximilian Melcher (1922-2002)
• Arik Brauer ( * 1929)
• Anton Lehmden (* 1929)
• Josef Mikl (1929-2008)
• Ernst Fuchs ( born 1930 )
• Timo Penttilä (1931-2011)
• Roland Goeschl (* 1932)
• Andreas judgment (1933-1963)
• Fria Elf Frenken ( b. 1934 )
• Hermann Czech ( b. 1936 )
• Hartmut Urban (1941-1997)
• Harun Farocki ( b. 1944 )
• Erich Wonder ( 1944)
• Luigi Blau ( b. 1945 )
• Annegret Soltau ( b. 1946 )
• Reinhard Puch ( b. 1947 )
• Gottfried Helnwein ( b. 1948 )
• Adam Jankowski ( b. 1948 )
• Manfred Deix ( b. 1949 )
• Erwin Bohatsch (* 1951)
• Josef Trattner ( b. 1955 )
• Martin Kohlbauer ( b. 1956 )
• Walter Köstenbauer ( b. 1956 )
• Hans Scheirl ( b. 1956 )
• Diedrich Diederichsen ( b. 1957 )
• Carsten Roth (born 1958 )
• Heimo Zobernig (* 1958)
• Andrea Maria Dusl ( b. 1961 )
• Daniel Richter ( b. 1962 )
• Monica Bonvicini (* 1965)
• Dorit Margreiter ( b. 1967 )

Acquaintance rejected aspirant was Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)