Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee
Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee Weißensee Art Academy Berlin |
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founding | 1946 |
Sponsorship | state |
place | Berlin |
state | Berlin |
country | Germany |
Rector | Leonie Baumann |
Students | 819 WS 2015/16 |
Professors | 35 |
Annual budget | € 12.1 million (2018) |
Website | www.kh-berlin.de |
The Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee (spelling: Weißensee Kunsthochschule berlin ) is a university for the training of artists and designers in various fields and was founded in 1946 in Berlin-Weißensee . A special feature is the basic artistic and design course , which is mandatory for all students and which ties in with the tradition of the Bauhaus .
Development of the educational institution
The college was founded in 1946 by metal sculptor Otto Sticht in Berlin as an art school of the north . In 1947 it was officially recognized as an art school by the Soviet military administration and renamed the University of Applied Arts. In 1950 the Dutch architecture and designer Mart Stam became the director of the art school and founded the interdisciplinary basic course. Stam remained director of the college until 1952. In 1953 the college for applied arts was renamed the college for fine and applied arts and 1969 at the art college Berlin.
Since the Unification Treaty came into force in 1990, it has been called the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art (spelling: Weißensee Kunsthochschule berlin ). With the decision of the Berlin Senate to expand the art college in October 1991, the number of students doubled from around 250, and later to around 800.
Location and training content
The facility is located in the Berlin-Weißensee district and has been headed by Rector Leonie Baumann since 2011 . The Mart Stam Society is the university's sponsoring association.
Basic courses are free art with the subjects of sculpture , stage and costume design and painting , as well as the design courses of fashion design , product design , textile and surface design and visual communication . The architecture course was discontinued in 2005 because, according to a senate decision, the training in Berlin had to be "bundled".
The postgraduate master’s courses in Art Therapy and Spatial Strategies - Research-Based Art in a Public Context have been offered for several years (as of 2016).
building
In 1956, the university moved into buildings specially prepared for its needs in what was then Straße 203 (today Bühringstraße). It was the remains of a former chocolate factory that had been redesigned by a design team ( Selman Selmanagic , Peter Flierl , Erwin Krause and Günther Köhler ). The administration building was initially converted to accommodate around 240 students and the teaching staff. Workshop rooms, an auditorium and a cafeteria were added later. The new buildings and conversions were largely made from recycled rubble bricks , which were completed with prefabricated ceilings. An entrance and connecting wing, which could also be used for exhibitions, completed the university facility.
The reliefs depicting the disciplines and the frieze were created by the artists Jürgen von Woyski and Toni Mau . Large parts of the building complex are listed . The auditorium wing of the Selmanagic building was repaired, refurbished and restored from 2010 to 2011 by the Wüstenrot Foundation , which invested 1.5 million euros. The mural turning point by Arno Mohr in the anteroom of the auditorium was restored.
Rectors
- 1946–1948: Otto Sticht (metal sculptor)
- 1948–1950: Jan Bontjes van Beek (ceramist)
- 1950–1952: Mart Stam (architect and designer)
- 1952–1956: Werner Laux (painter)
- 1956–1957: Bert Heller (painter)
- 1957–1961: Gustav Urbschat (social scientist )
- 1961–1968: Fritz Dähn (painter)
- 1968–1988: Walter Womacka (painter)
- 1988–1991: Rudolf Grüttner (graphic designer)
- 1991–1996: Alfred Hückler (designer)
- 1996–2004: Rainer W. Ernst (architect)
- 2004–2011: Gerhard Strehl (product designer)
- since 2011: Leonie Baumann (publicist)
University Council
On February 12, 2004, the University Council of the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art was constituted . It was introduced as part of the trial clause of the Berlin Higher Education Act (BerlHG § 7a) passed in 2003 and is intended to provide strategic advice to the university management and academic bodies. This university council, which is made up of external members from business and society, has far-reaching powers such as approving the draft and establishing the budget or establishing and terminating courses. The current members (as of November 2012) are:
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and qua office :
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Former members:
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University professor
Currently (as of March 2020) the following university professors teach at the art school:
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sculpture
Stage and costume design Artistic basics
Art therapy
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painting Fashion design
Product design Spatial strategies
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Textile and surface design
Theory and history
visual communication |
Former university professors and graduates (selection)
Professors and teachers
In the past, many well-known artists (sculptors, commercial artists, product designers, illustrators and book designers, draftsmen and graphic artists, painters, architects and stage designers) taught at the art college:
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- Theo Balden , painting, sculpture
- Herbert Behrens-Hangeler , painting
- Axel Bertram
- Günther Brendel
- Cay-Hugo von Brockdorff
- Manfred Butzmann , guest lecturer 1988–1993
- Heinrich Drake , sculpture
- Herbert Behrens-Hangeler , painting
- Dieter Goltzsche , painting
- Katharina Grosse , painting
- Rudolf Grüttner
- Waldemar Grzimek , sculpture
- Bert Heller , painting
- Herbert Hirche
- Matthias Gubig (1992–2007), visual communication
- Heinz Hirdina , design theory
- Rudi Högner , design
- Heinrich Ilgenfritz
- Ernst Jazdzewski
- Jo Jastram , sculpture
- Erich John , design
- Heinrich Kilger the Younger
- Werner Klemke , illustration
- Konrad Knebel
- Fritz Kühn , metal sculptor
- Adam Kurtz , painter and sculptor
- Karl Lemke
- Daniel Libeskind
- Nanne Meyer , Visual Communication
- Arno Mohr , painting, graphics
- Gabriele Mucchi
- Eva Mücke , fashion design and graphics
- Ronald Paris , painting
- Christine Perthen
- Wolfgang Peuker , painting, graphics
- Volker Pfüller
- Alexandra Povòrina
- Gerhard Preuss , graphic
- Kurt Robbel , painting, restoration
- Paul Rosié
- Karin Sander , sculpture
- Selman Selmanagic
- Werner Stötzer , sculpture
- Horst Strempel
- Wilhelm Tank
- Heinrich Tessmer
- Ernst Rudolf Vogenauer
- Klaus Wittkugel
- Jürgen von Woyski
- Alex Jordan , visual communication
Graduates
Later, well-known artists emerged from the student body:
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- Georg Baselitz , studied painting from 1956–1957
- Rolf Biebl , studied sculpture 1973–1978
- Rudolf Böhm , sculpture
- Manfred Butzmann , studied 1964–1969, graphics
- Karl Clauss Dietel , studied 1956–1961, design
- Anke Feuchtenberger
- Rolf Händler , studied painting 1961–1966
- Florentijn Hofman , design
- Erich John , studied 1953–1958, design
- Friedrich Kautz , studied communication design from 2002–2008
- Martin Kelm , studied 1953–1958, design
- Siegfried Korth , studied painting 1950–1955
- Heinz-Karl Kummer , studied painting, graphics from 1951 to 1952
- Sigrid Kupetz , studied painting and graphics from 1946–1947
- Mark Lammert , studied painting 1979–1986
- Harry Leupold , studied 1953–1958, stage design
- Ulli Lust
- Ellen Mäder-Gutz
- Mawil
- Karl Mertens
- Bert Neumann , studied 1980–1985, stage and costume design
- Elke Pollack , studied painting and graphics from 1990–1995
- Sandra Rienäcker , studied painting, graphics from 1996–2001
- Lutz Rudolph , studied 1955–1960, design
- Philipp Schack , studied painting 1989–1995
- Einar Schleef , studied 1964–1965 and 1967–1971, painting, stage design
- Anna Franziska Schwarzbach , evening course 1975–1979, sculpture
- Michael Sohn , studied 1979–1984, design
- Henning Wagenbreth
- Christiane Werner , studied 1986–1989, painting, graphics
- Claus-Peter Werner , studied architecture 1946–1951
- Carl-Heinz Westenburger , painting, graphics
literature
- Hildtrud Ebert (Ed.): Three chapters Weissensee. Documents on the history of the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art 1946–1957. Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-9805489-0-2 .
- Samson Dietrich Sauerbier (ed.): Two breakouts. Symposium of the Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee. The first ten years. Sense - senses - teaching. Views on prospects. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-9805489-2-9 .
- Gerhard Strehl (Ed.): Campus Weißensee. Festschrift for the inauguration of the new buildings of the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art, April 7, 2011. Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814373-0-0 .
See also
Partner art colleges
- Glasgow School of Art (Great Britain)
Web links
- Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee
- Information platform for the fields of sculpture and painting
- Friends of Walter Womacka e. V. (Rector 1968–1988)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Students at universities in Berlin winter semester 2015/2016, p. 30 (accessed on December 15, 2016)
- ↑ Performance report for 2018 on the implementation of the university contract. Land Berlin, p. 23 , accessed on August 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Artistic and design basics | Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin. Retrieved August 19, 2019 .
- ↑ Open Monument Day 2012 / focus on wood. Restoration of the auditorium and foyer of the Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee by Selman Selmanagić , accessed on April 6, 2013
- ↑ Hildtrud Ebert: Three chapters Weissensee . Ed .: Hildtrud Ebert. Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-9805489-0-2 .
- ↑ Mart-Stam-Gesellschaft on the website of khb Weißensee , accessed on August 19, 2019.
- ↑ Berliner Kunsthochschule Weißensee cancels the architecture course , Deutschlandradio Kultur, accessed on April 6, 2013.
- ^ Joachim Schulz, Werner Graebner: Berlin. Capital of the DDR. Architecture Guide GDR , VEB Verlag für Bauwesen Berlin, 1974; Page 123
- ↑ BD Bühringstraße 20, Berlin-Weißensee School of Art with garden courtyard, exhibition foyer, classroom building, cafeteria and auditorium, 1955–1956 by Selman Selmanagic, with the participation of Peter Flierl, Erwin Krause and Günther Köhler
- ↑ Bulletin of the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee, No. 110. ( Memento from May 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 21 kB) from January 11, 2004 on the reform statute, accessed on April 6, 2013.
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