International Summer Academy for Fine Arts Salzburg

The International Summer Academy for Fine Arts Salzburg , founded in 1953 by Oskar Kokoschka as the "School of Seeing" at the Hohensalzburg Fortress , is the oldest of its kind in Europe. Every year around 300 participants from over 50 countries (as of 2019) currently attend around 20 courses at the two fixed course locations, Fortress Hohensalzburg and Kiefer Steinbruch in Fürstenbrunn, as well as at temporary locations. In principle, the Salzburg Summer Academy is open to anyone interested. A good two thirds of the participants are professionals (artists and art students). All participants go through an application process in which the lecturers decide on their admission.

Course content

Renowned artists from all over the world give courses in painting, drawing, printmaking , (stone) sculpture , installation , mixed media , architecture , jewelry design , photography , video , performance , curatorial practice and writing about art. The organizational structure of the summer academy enables her to react quickly to current developments in the art world and to help shape the latest trends.

history

The academy was founded in 1953 by Oskar Kokoschka and Friedrich Welz as a school of vision at the Hohensalzburg fortress. Hermann Stuppäck was succeeded as director in 1964. From 1981 to 1999 Wieland Schmied was President of the Summer Academy. Barbara Wally started with Schmied as managing director in 1981 and took over the overall management of the summer academy as director until 2009. In March 2009 she was replaced by the current director Hildegund Amanshauser .

Professors

Internationally recognized artists or university professors can often be won as lecturers. Have taught z. B. Doug Ashford , Norbert Bisky , Markus Lüpertz , Jörg Immendorff , Kenjirō Azuma , Ben Willikens , Itsuko Hasegawa , Hermann Nitsch , Milan Horvat , Yoshi Takahashi , Herbert Post , Nan Hoover , Annegret Soltau , Heinz Trökes , Arik Brauer , Friedensreich Hundertwasser , Kiki Kogelnik , Allan Kaprow , Wolf Vostell , Daniel Spoerri , Eduardo Paolozzi , Gotthard Graubner , Gerhard Rühm , Günther Uecker , Friedrich Meckseper , Hans Hollein , Coop Himmelb (l) au , Robert Jungk , Rupprecht Geiger , Mario Merz , Josef Zenzmaier , Gustav Peichl , Ai Weiwei , Robert Kuśmirowski , Manfred Pernice , Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann , Katharina Sieverding , Michael Schmidt , Dan Perjovschi , Lia Perjovschi, Tania Bruguera , Anna Jermolaewa , Valie Export , Juan A. Gaitán, Maria Lind .

literature

Hildegund Amanshauser (ed.): The most beautiful studio in the world. 60 years of the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts Salzburg. Jung and Jung, Salzburg / Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-99027-038-7 .

Web links

Summer Academy website
Literature from and about the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts Salzburg in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature from and about the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts Salzburg in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

↑ History of the Summer Academy ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved October 25, 2014. @1@ 2

↑ born September 28, 1903 Vienna, died December 15, 1988 Salzburg, party member NSDAP Austria since February 28, 1932, membership no. 896082, chief editor of the Wiener Gaupresse, state "Landeskulturwalter" i. A. the illegal NSDAP in Vienna , in the so-called State Cultural Office; initially deputy general cultural officer of the NSDAP; from 1943 general cultural advisor, 1942 active in the Reich Propaganda Office in Vienna, wore the ring of the state of Salzburg . Also called himself State Secretary . Friend of Baldur von Schirach and Alfred Eduard Frauenfeld . Highest Nazi cultural functionary in Austria. After 1945 he continued to work as a writer, editor and in the publishing industry, as can be seen in this position

↑ Hildegund Amanshauser (ed.): The most beautiful studio in the world. 60 years of the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts Salzburg. Jung and Jung, Salzburg / Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-99027-038-7 , pp. 80–89.

[1] History of the Summer Academy ( Memento of the original from October 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved October 25, 2014. @1@ 2

[2] rn September 28, 1903 Vienna, died December 15, 1988 Salzburg, party member NSDAP Austria since February 28, 1932, membership no. 896082, chief editor of the Wiener Gaupresse, state "Landeskulturwalter" i. A. the illegal NSDAP in Vienna , in the so-called State Cultural Office; initially deputy general cultural officer of the NSDAP; from 1943 general cultural advisor, 1942 active in the Reich Propaganda Office in Vienna, wore the ring of the state of Salzburg . Also called himself State Secretary . Friend of Baldur von Schirach and Alfred Eduard Frauenfeld . Highest Nazi cultural functionary in Austria. After 1945 he continued to work as a writer, editor and in the publishing industry, as can be seen in this position

[3] Hildegund Amanshauser (ed.): The most beautiful studio in the world. 60 years of the International Summer Academy for Fine Arts Salzburg. Jung and Jung, Salzburg / Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-99027-038-7 , pp. 80–89.