Kunstakademie Königsberg

The State Academy of Art was an institute in Königsberg of regional importance.

History

The Art and Trade School, least of Master School of German craft was located in the King's Road 57. Friedrich Wilhelm III. ( Prussia ) presented in 1838 by a Cabinet Order for the land, which was founded in 1790 Art and Drawing School available there. The Art Academy Founded in 1841, they brought there under the new building. The idea of ​​founding goes back to Ernst August Hagen. Ernst August Hagen ( born April 12, 1797 in Königsberg ( Prussia); † February 15, 1880 ) was a Prussian art writer, novelist and first professor of art history and aesthetics in Prussia, at the University of Königsberg ( Albertina ) worked until his death. Hagen was also responsible for already for the establishment of the Konigsberg Arts and Industry Association in 1832 and took over before 1830, the old art collection of the University of Königsberg. In 1831 he purchased the " university print collection " and led them in 1862 in the " Prints and Drawings " in the new university. By Hagen was the construction of the city museum, an art gallery in the King's Road, in 1838 initiated decisive. Construction was completed in 1841.

The friend Hagens, Oberpräsident Heinrich Theodor von Schön was next to Hagen, who already had close personal contacts with the Prussian royal family since childhood, asked to commit themselves to the king for the construction of an art academy, which Selbiger after a two-time " Cabinet Order " ( Cabinet Order ) against the opinions of his ministers Altenstein or its successor Eichhorn also approved. Beautiful and Hagen were so authoritative founders of the Academy of Art Königsberg. From Nice the idea of ​​inscription on the building ( Artium operibus condendis et artficibus instituendis ) comes. In honor yous built the city of Königsberg in 1843 the tinny obelisks in front of the building; Hagen was again at the Academy temporarily worked as a teacher.

The Academy should serve the creation of works of art and the training of artists and was opened on 1 September 1845. Its first director was the history painter Louis Rosenfeld. He headed the institution until 1881. The Art Academy, which was initially located on the Royal Route, received in 1916 in a new building Rathshof by Friedrich Lahr, who now serves as a school building. After conversion to the Academy building in the King's Road remained arts and trade school.

The main achievements of the Academy were to be found in the field of landscape and genre painting. Was represented for example the painter Ernst Mollenhauer and others who had founded on the Curonian Spit in Nida, the Nida Artists' Colony.

Teacher

• August Behrendsen
• Fritz Burmann
• Stanislaus Cauer
• Ludwig Dettmann
• Norbert Ernst Dolezich
• Kurt Frick
• Hermann Gemmel
• Friedrich Lahr
• Edmund May
• Emil envy
• Alfred particles
• Richard Pfeiffer (painter)
• Friedrich Reusch
• Louis Rosenfeld
• Carl Constantin Heinrich Steffeck
• Robert Trossin
• Franz Xaver Wimmer (1881-1937), painter
• Hans Wissel
• Heinrich Wolff ( graphic artist )

Alumni

• Joachim Albrecht
• Edward Anderson
• Ingrid Wagner Andersson
• Fritz Ascher (1893-1970)
• Hubert Berke
• Otto Beyer
• Theo of Brockhusen
• Lovis Corinth
• Emil Doerstling
• Franz Domscheit
• Karl Eulenstein
• Otto Ewel (1871-1954), monumental painter, portraitist
• Fritz Hass
• Adolf Hering
• Adalbert Jaschinski
• Eduard Kado
• Paul Kimritz (1888-1973), sculptor
• Lothar Klimek
• Alexander Kolde
• Käthe Kollwitz
• Hilde Leest
• Max Lindh
• Arnold Lyon Green
• Lothar Malskat
• Ernst Mollenhauer
• Emil Neumann (painter)
• Helene Neumann
• Luise Neumann ( painter )
• Waldemar Philippi (painter) ( 1828-1869 )
• Waldemar Rösler
• Otto Rohse
• Edith sands
• Ernst Schaumann (painter)
• Carl Scherres
• Fritz Szalinski
• Walter Rosenberg
• Hella Hirschfelder - Stueve
• Erika Maria Wiegand