Königsberg Art Academy

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Art Academy on Koenigsstrasse

The state art academy in Königsberg was an art academy in Königsberg (Prussia) . It was of regional importance for East Prussia .

history

The art and trade school, most recently also the master's school of German craftsmanship, was located at Koenigsstrasse 57. Friedrich Wilhelm III. made the property available for the art and drawing school founded in 1790 by means of a cabinet order. The art academy founded in 1841 was housed there in the new building. The idea of ​​founding goes back to Ernst August Hagen . As an art writer and novelist , Hagen was the first professor of art history and aesthetics in Prussia at the Albertus University in Königsberg . As early as 1832 he was jointly responsible for the establishment of the Königsberg art and trade association and in 1830 had taken over the old art collection of the university. In 1831 he acquired the "University Copper Engraving Collection" and in 1862 transferred it to the "Copper Engraving Cabinet" of the new university. In 1838, Hagen also initiated the construction of the city museum on Königsstrasse; This art gallery was completed in 1841.

Hagens' friend, the Oberpräsident Heinrich Theodor von Schön , was asked next to Hagen, who had had close personal contacts with the Prussian royal family since his childhood, to also support the king in building an art academy, which the same after a two-time “Cabinetsordre” (cabinet order ) against the opinions of his ministers Altenstein and his successor Eichhorn also approved. Schön and Hagen were the main founders of the Königsberg Art Academy. Schön came up with the idea for the inscription above the building ( Artium operibus condendis et artficibus instituendis ). In honor of Schön, the city of Königsberg erected the tin obelisk in front of the building in 1843 ; Hagen also worked as a teacher at the academy from time to time.

The academy was supposed to serve the creation of works of art and the training of artists and was opened on September 1, 1845. Its first director was the history painter Ludwig Rosenfelder . He headed the institute until 1881. The art academy, which was initially located on Königsstrasse, received a new building in Rathshof by Friedrich Lahrs in 1916 , which today serves as a school building. After the conversion to the academy, the building on Königsstraße remained an art and trade school. During the Weimar Republic , Wilhelm Thiele (1921 to 1924) and Hermann Nollau were directors of the academy. The main achievements of the academy lay in landscape and genre painting . Represented the painters Ernst Mollenhauer and others on the Curonian Spit , the artists' colony Nida had founded.

Teacher

Königsberg Art Academy
Hall
14th art exhibition (1848)

Alumni

literature

  • Ingeborg Kelch-Nolde : Königsberg Art Academy 1845–1945. Biographies of the directors, teachers and students. University of Mainz n.d., pp. 65–94. ( online as PDF; 322 kB)
  • Günter Krüger: The Königsberg art schools. In: Udo Arnold (Ed.): Prussia as a university landscape in the 19th and 20th centuries. Century. Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk, Lüneburg 1992, pp. 105–122.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Gause:  Hagen, Ernst August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 470 ( digitized version ).

Coordinates: 54 ° 43 ′ 13.4 ″  N , 20 ° 27 ′ 13.3 ″  E