Royal School of Applied Arts Munich

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The Royal School of Applied Arts Munich (abbreviation KGS ) was founded in 1868 and was next to the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and the Nuremberg art school the most important art education institution in Bavaria , especially under the direction of Richard Riemerschmid 1913-1924.

history

After the end of the monarchy in 1918 it was renamed the State School of Applied Arts in Munich , in 1928 the State School for Applied Arts and in 1937 the Academy for Applied Arts . The School of Applied Arts and the Academy of Applied Arts was incorporated into the Munich Academy of Fine Arts in 1946.

The school building last used at Luisenstrasse 37 was destroyed in the Second World War; a new building for the Geological Institute of the University of Munich has been in its place since the 1950s.

Teacher (selection)

Student (selection)

The students who attended the Royal School, State School of Applied Arts and State School, Academy of Applied Arts include:

literature

  • Claudia Schmalhofer: The Kgl. Kunstgewerbeschule Munich (1868–1918). Your influence on the training of drawing teachers . Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-8316-0542-4 .

Web links

Commons : Königliche Kunstgewerbeschule München  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Volkert (ed.): Handbook of Bavarian offices, communities and courts 1799–1980 . CH Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-09669-7 , p. 216 .
  2. 1914 student under Richard Riemerschmid, inquired in 1947 and appointed to the academy in 1951, member of the German Association of Artists and the German Association of Workers.