Academy Association Munich

The Association of Friends and Supporters of the Academy of Fine Arts - Akademieverein München e. V. - is a sponsoring association with around 200 members that supports special projects by the Academy of Fine Arts , its classes and students. It is based in the Academy of Fine Arts on the border between Schwabing and Maxvorstadt .

History, goal setting and activities

The friends' association was founded in 1983. Among its founding members are Erich Schneider-Wessling , then President of the Academy of Fine Arts, Hans Baschang , Professor of Painting, Helmut Friedl , Hermann Kern, Michael Tacke, Ernst Maria Lang and Helmut Schneider.

The main focus of the academy association is on the promotion of student projects, which include, for example, exhibitions, publications or trips. Equally important is the strengthening of the academy's public response.

Other activities of the association also include the donation of two prizes (“Academy Association Award for Diploma” and “Academy Association Award for Annual Exhibition”) and the support of young artists through studio grants.

Since 1990, one of the activities of the academy association has also been organizing the annual auction, in which works by students as well as professors and workshop managers are auctioned. For students, this is usually their first contact with the art market, with collectors and gallery owners. A part of the proceeds goes to the artists, the other part is used to support projects.

The academy association offers its members a program with monthly events and invitations to lectures, exhibitions, guided tours, workshop or studio visits.

Projects

Otto Steidle studios

In the municipal studios under the pedestrian bridge in Ganghoferstraße, the academy association pays half of the rent for two studios as part of a grant for five years.

During the construction of the municipal school in Ganghoferstraße, the Munich architect Rudolf Hierl made the proposal to build studios under the pedestrian bridge adjacent to the school. A city council initiative by the two city councilors Constanze Lindner-Schädlich and Monika Renner was followed by the city council resolution and the commissioning and implementation of the project by the project company FONDARA group of companies. Maintenance as well as the assignment of the studio is up to now with FONDARA.

The name Otto Steidle Ateliers is based on a suggestion by Prof. Hierl and is reminiscent of the late Munich architect and former academy professor Otto Steidle (1943–2004).

The then chairman of the academy association, Gile Haindl-Steiner, rented two of the nine studios for scholarship holders on behalf of the academy association. Paul Huf and Annette Schemmel, Oliver Westerbarkey and Saskia Neuhaus have been here since 2006, currently Anja Buchheister and Thomas Splett are scholarship holders of the academy association.

Günter Fruhtrunk Prize

Franz Erhard Walter was the first award winner in 1987 to distinguish himself as an “educational heavyweight with a great sense of mission”. In addition to receiving the award, the award winners were also required to hold a one-week course at the academy. The prize was awarded every two years to the following artists: Gerhard Merz (1989), Rosemarie Trockel (1991), Christian Boltanski (1993), Marlene Dumas (1995), Georg Herold (1997), Olafur Eliasson (1999), Cosima von Bonin (2003), Herlinde Kölbl (2006), Tacita Dean (2008) and Zoe Leonhard (2010).

Club structure

The business of the association is managed by an honorary board, the members of which are elected for two years at the general assembly. Rasmus Kleine has been chairman of the board of the Munich Academy since 2019, and the incumbent president of the academy holds the office of deputy - currently Dieter Rehm .

Web links

Literature from and about the Munich Academy in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Official website
Otto Steidle Ateliers website

literature

30 years of the Munich Academy Association - 25 years of the Erwin and Gisela von Steiner Foundation, Munich
200 years of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7774-4205-1 .

Individual evidence

↑ Nikolaus Gerhart, Walter Grasskamp, Florian Matzner: 200 years of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich: "... no specific curriculum, no uniform mechanism": [... on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and the accompanying exhibitions "The Trial of Strength" in Haus der Kunst (Munich, May 30th - August 31st, 2008) and “Architecture in the Circle of the Arts” in the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich in the Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich, February 15th - May 18th, 2008)] . Hirmer, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7774-4205-1 .
↑ Dieter Rehm: Greetings, in: 30 years of the Munich Academy - 25 years of the Erwin and Gisela von Steiner Foundation . Ed .: Akademieverein München eV Munich 2013, p. 5 .

[1] Nikolaus Gerhart, Walter Grasskamp, Florian Matzner: 200 years of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich: "... no specific curriculum, no uniform mechanism": [... on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and the accompanying exhibitions "The Trial of Strength" in Haus der Kunst (Munich, May 30th - August 31st, 2008) and “Architecture in the Circle of the Arts” in the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich in the Pinakothek der Moderne (Munich, February 15th - May 18th, 2008)] . Hirmer, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7774-4205-1 .

[2] Dieter Rehm: Greetings, in: 30 years of the Munich Academy - 25 years of the Erwin and Gisela von Steiner Foundation . Ed .: Akademieverein München eV Munich 2013, p. 5 .