Royal Art School in Berlin

The teaching building in Berlin-Schöneberg, built as the State Art School in Berlin in 1920 at Grunewaldstrasse 2-5

The Königliche Kunstschule zu Berlin (from 1918 State Art School Berlin , from 1936 State University for Art Education ) was a formerly independent training center for drawing teachers and art educators founded in Berlin in the 19th century . At the Grunewaldstrasse 2-5 location in Berlin-Schöneberg , it was integrated into the State University of Fine Arts in 1945 .

history

From an art and trade school that existed in the 19th century and a drawing school at the Berlin Academy of the Arts , the Royal Art School in Berlin was founded in 1869 with the architect Martin Gropius as the first director. The location from 1878 to 1920 was the building at Klosterstrasse 75, which was converted for this purpose. After the proclamation of the German Empire , the art school was supplemented by a seminar for drawing teachers in 1872; After the death of Gropius, the painter Ernst Ewald , who was also the director of the teaching establishment of the Kunstgewerbe-Museum , headed the art school from 1880. She was now "until 1905 [...] in close contact with the teaching institute of the Kunstgewerbe-Museum and prepared, among other things, for their visit." Also from 1905 the art school only trained prospective drawing teachers and art educators.

In the middle of World War I , Philipp Franck , himself a former student of the art school and artistically assigned to Impressionism , took over the management of the facility in 1915. In the same year, the advertising artist, graphic artist and type artist Heinz Keune , who was initially influenced by Art Nouveau , was appointed to the school. After the November Revolution in 1918, the educational establishment was renamed the State Art School in Berlin and in 1920 it was able to move into the new building on Grunewaldstrasse, which is still in use today. At the time of the Weimar Republic , Phillip Franck, who published his programmatic work Das Schaffende Kind in 1928 , influenced the reform of drawing and art education in Prussia .

After the National Socialists seized power , Alexander Kanoldt , a representative of the New Objectivity , headed the art school from 1933 to 1936. He appointed Georg Schrimpf , who was also a contemporary painter , who, however , was dismissed in 1937 after the institution was renamed the State University for Art Education , as was the expressionist Georg Tappert, who had been working there for a long time .

Only a few months after the end of the Second World War , art lessons could be resumed from the winter semester 1945/46, but no longer as an independent educational institution, but as an art pedagogical branch legally integrated into the University of Fine Arts.

Personalities (incomplete)

So far the following directors, teachers and students of the educational institution could be proven :

Name first Name	function	from	to	Art direction	Remarks
Gropius, Martin	director	1869	1880	architect
Ewald, Ernst	director	1880		painter
Poppy, Viktor Paul	director	1905		Painter, illustrator
Tschirch, Egon	student	1908		Painter, illustrator
Franck, Philipp	director	1915		Painter (impressionism)	Author, influenced the reform of drawing and art education in Prussia.
Keune, Heinz	Teacher	1915		Graphic artist (advertising)
Jahn, Martin	student	1916	1919	Draftsman and painter (Expressionism, New Objectivity, Abstract Art , Informal Art )	Bauhaus student, art teacher
Kanoldt, Alexander	director	1933		Painter (New Objectivity)
Schrimpf, Georg	Teacher		1937	Painter (New Objectivity)
Tappert, Georg	Teacher		1937	Painter (expressionism)

Others

So far (as of: 01/2015) no monograph on the history of the facility has been written.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m Martin Rennert (Responsible): Kunstschule zu Berlin ... (see under the section Web Links )

↑ ^a ^b N.N. : Heinrich [HeinZ] Keune , Vita with examples can be downloaded as a PDF document from the Klingspor Museum website , last accessed on January 13, 2015

↑ Veronika Burger: Martin Jahn: Recovered, newly seen , exhibition catalog (Tübingen 1998).

↑ Tabular curriculum vitae in the exhibition archive of the Galerie am Pflegehof, Tübingen, last accessed on May 2, 2015.

Web links

Commons : Grunewaldstraße (Berlin-Schöneberg) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Martin Rennert (responsible): Art School in Berlin, 1869-1945 on the side of the Berlin University of the Arts