Sächsische Akademie der Künste

The Saxon Academy of Arts is an art firm and united artists and art theorist from home and abroad.

Task

The Academy is a public corporation and has " to promote the art of making proposals to promote and maintain the traditions of the Saxon cultural area " as an institution of the Free State of Saxony, the task (Founding Act of 1994 ). She speaks from the own responsibility and develops public effectiveness. It is defined in its statutes as a community of artists and theorists who represents freedom and claim the art of the state and society and makes the public with important artistic achievements of the time.

In the territorial center between her older sister academies in Berlin and Munich, it is their duty, to enliven the intellectual and artistic richness of the Central German cultural area while simultaneously meeting the new challenges that will be associated with the demographic, social and cultural change. From the immediate vicinity of the new Member States of the European Union and the historical role of Saxony in the Central and Eastern European cultural space out there sees the Academy as one of its obligations to accompany the political unification culturally and artistically.

Since 2005, in collaboration with the Central Europe Center of the Technical University of Dresden, Chamisso poetics of lectureship.

History

The Academy is the youngest of three key country- based in Germany five- class art academies. The initiative for the establishment of the Saxon Academy of Arts came from a founding group, the post-1990 inter alia, the journalist and essayist Friedrich Dieckmann, the sculptor Wieland Förster, the musician Ludwig Güttler, the actor Friedrich- Wilhelm Junge and the art historian Werner Schmidt belonged. Following the development of foundation law and the statutes of the Saxon State Parliament adopted on 27 May 1994 the "Law on the Establishment of the Saxon Academy of the Arts ". With its constitution on 29 February 1996 (appeal of 30 founding members ) and the cast of Presidential and Senate functions of the founding process was completed.

See also: List of members of the Saxon Academy of Arts

The Saxon Academy of the Arts unites ordinary members, corresponding members and honorary members from Germany and abroad. The members artist and art theorist can be selected that have distinguished themselves through their work in a special way and that are connected by origin or effectiveness with the Saxon culture. These are nominated by the classes of the Academy by secret ballot and proposed to the General Meeting for election. From the Senate of the General Assembly can also Honorary members are nominated for election. Independent applications are excluded.

At the time of the Saxon Academy of Arts are 151 members from at home and abroad (as of 2012).

Construction

The work of the members designed in the classes

  • Architecture, led by Engelbert Daldrup, deputy Andreas Wolf
  • Visual Arts, headed by Wolfgang Holler, deputy Jürgen Schön
  • Performing arts and film, directed by Michael Heinicke, deputy Annette Jahns
  • Literature and language cultivation, led by Wilhelm Bartsch, Deputy Roza Domascyna
  • Music, directed by Jörn Peter Hiekel, Deputy Manos Tsangaris

The Academy is based in the so-called block house in Dresden. Institutions of the Academy shall be the President, the Senate, composed of the Secretaries of the five classes, the President and Vice President, and which meets once a year meeting. The organizational tasks takes a true branch; Presidential Secretary Klaus Michael.

President

Prices

Hans -Theo -Richter Prize

The Hans -Theo -Richter Prize for Fine Arts is awarded usually every two years. The donated by the widow of Hans Theo Richter price of the Saxon Academy of Arts is awarded for outstanding achievements in painting and graphics and is endowed with 20,000 euros.

The first prize winner, Max Uhlig, was determined by Hildegard Richter, the following winners by decision of a jury consisting of the class visual arts of the Saxon Academy of Arts, the Board of Hildegard and Hans -Theo Richter Foundation members and the Director of the Cabinet of Prints and the Dresden State Art Collections.

Award winners are

Gottfried Semper Architecture Prize

The Gottfried Semper Architecture Prize an internationally recognized architect personality is appreciated, whose work has a distinctive qualities of sustainable construction. In assessing therefore particular aspects of architectural quality, urban integration, the reference landscape and the climate, resource-and area- friendly construction are considered.

The prize is awarded every two years since 2007 by the Saxon Academy of Arts with the Saxon State Conservation Foundation ( Lanu ) and Vattenfall Europe Mining & Generation ( founder ) and is endowed with 25,000 euros.

Previous winners are:

  • 2007: Erich Schneider -Wessling
  • 2009: Günter Pfeifer, Freiburg im Breisgau
  • 2011: Frank Zimmermann, Cottbus
  • 2013: Louisa Hutton and Matthias Sauerbruch by the architectural firm Sauerbruch Hutton

Publications

  • Against the current and with the times. For the 15th anniversary of the Saxon Academy of Arts. Edited by Peter Gülke. Dresden 2011.
  • Art in the making. Sketches, projects and workbooks. Published by the Saxon Academy of Arts and the Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden. Dresden 2011.
  • Gottfried Semper Architecture Prize. Günter Pfeifer. Published by the Saxon Academy of Arts and the Saxon State Conservation Foundation. Dresden 2010 ISBN. 978-3-934367-18-0.
  • Yearbook of the Saxon Academy of Arts from 2007 to 2008. Edited by Udo Zimmermann. Dresden 2009 ISBN. 978-3-934367-17-3.
  • Historically versus Modern. Invention or reconstruction of the historical city on the example of the Dresden Neumarkt. Published by the Saxon Academy of Arts and the City Planning Department of the City of Dresden. Dresden 2008 ISBN. 978-3-934367-16-6.
  • Architecture and the environment. Published by the Saxon Academy of Arts and the Saxon State Conservation Foundation. Dresden 2008 ISBN. 978-3-934367-15-9.
  • Dresden as a European Art City: Explorations - Insights - perspectives. Edited by Ingo Zimmermann. City of Dresden and Saxon Academy of Arts. Dresden 2007 ISBN. 3937602968th
  • Poet and painter of art and nature. Published by the Saxon Academy of Arts and the Saxon State Conservation Foundation. Dresden 2006 ISBN. 3-934367-13-5.
  • Yearbook of the Saxon Academy of Arts from 2003 to 2005. Edited by Ingo Zimmermann. Dresden 2005. ISBN 3-934367-12-7.
  • Urban Redevelopment East. Super Tag Hoyerswerda. Published by the Saxon Academy of Arts. Dresden 2005 ISBN. 3-934367-07-0.
  • Legacy and future of modernity. Architecture and urban development in Brno and Leipzig. Published by the Saxon Academy of Arts. Dresden 2005 ISBN. 3-934367-08-9.
  • Architecture and urban planning of postwar modernism in Dresden. Published by the Saxon Academy of Arts. ISBN 3-934367-11-9.
  • Again and again: New Times. Time, contact time and breakage in the literature of East Central Europe after 1990. Edited by Klaus Michael. Saxon Academy of Arts. Dresden 2003 ISBN. 3-934367-10-0.
  • Yearbook of the Saxon Academy of Arts. From 2001 to 2002. Edited by Ingo Zimmermann. Dresden 2003. ISBN 3-934367-09-7.
  • Class reunion. On the 40th anniversary of the stage drama class from 1957 to 1960 at the Higher School of Theatre Leipzig. Posts by Ingrid Foehr, Friedrich Wilhelm Junge, Siegfried Kellermann, Volkmar Kleinert, Thomas Langhoff, Klaus Martin and Hannelore Seezen. Published by the Saxon Academy of Arts. Special supplement to the journal Theater der Zeit, Berlin April 2001.
  • Atelier Neumarkt Dresden 2000. Organized by the Department of Urban Development and Construction of the City of Dresden under the auspices of the Saxon Academy of Arts. Published by the City of Dresden, City Planning Office. Dresden 2001.
  • Yearbook of the Saxon Academy of Arts. From 1999 to 2000. Edited by Werner Schmidt. Dresden 2001. ISBN 3-934367-06-2.
  • Yearbook of the Saxon Academy of Arts. 1996-1997-1998. Edited by Werner Schmidt. Dresden 2000. ISBN 3-934367-03-8.
  • Dresden. City planning and urban development in the core city of Dresden. Edited by Klaus Michael. Saxon Academy of Arts. Dresden 2000. ISBN 3-934367-05-4.
  • Graubner. Painting and drawing. Edited by Werner Schmidt. Saxon Academy of Arts. Dresden 2000. ISBN 3-934367-04-6.
  • Leipzig. Problems of urban development with special consideration of the EXPO site Leipzig- Plagwitz. Edited by Klaus Michael. Saxon Academy of Arts. Dresden 1999. ISBN 3-934367-01-1.
  • Freiberg. Problems of urban development. Published by the Saxon Academy of Arts. Edited by Klaus Michael. Dresden 1999. ISBN 3-934367-02- X.
  • Bautzen. Problems of urban development. Edited by Helmut Trauzettel, Klaus Michael. Saxon Academy of Arts. Dresden 1999. ISBN 3-934367-00-3.
  • Parables. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe dedicated to the 250th anniversary of members of the Saxon Academy of Arts. Graphic edition in 50 copies with 30 signed and numbered leaves. 20 copies printed and 30 author's copies. ( Graphics and prints, among others, Wieland Förster, Eberhard Göschel, Graubner, Peter Herrmann, Gerda Lepke, Walter Libuda, Ulrich Lindner, Thea Richter, Strawalde, Max Uhlig ) Edited by Werner Schmidt on behalf of the Saxon Academy of Arts. Dresden 1999.
  • Chemnitz. Karl- Marx-Stadt. Chemnitz. First meeting of the Saxon Academy of Arts, Department of architecture, to problems of the Chemnitz city planning and urban design. Published by the Department of Urban Development and Building Regulations. Chemnitz in 1996.
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