Wredow School of Drawing

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On the right the Wredow School of Drawing, on the left the Jakobskapelle

The Wredow drawing school (or Wredow drawing school ) is an art school in Brandenburg an der Havel , where children and young people are trained in various artistic subjects in the subjects of painting, drawing, graphics, sculpture, experimental design and advertising design. It is run by the Wredow School of Drawing Foundation .

history

The drawing school at Wredowplatz 1 goes back to the drawing teacher August Köpke. In 1870 the Brandenburg craft association founded a commercial drawing school . This was soon supported artistically and financially by the sculptor August Julius Wredow . The aim was to teach craftsmen , tradespeople and interested parties how to use the materials and how to design arts and crafts . Wredow donated a large sum and handed over his art collection to Brandenburg on the condition that it should build its own building for the school. As a result, the schoolhouse was built in Brandenburger Neustadt near the St. Jakob chapel , which was inaugurated in 1878. Primarily journeymen and masters of the handicrafts were taught, but laypeople and interested young people could also receive artistic training. Plaster casts, engravings and Wredow ornaments served as illustrative and teaching materials. During the Second World War only limited classes took place in the Wredow School of Drawing. It was dissolved in 1947 and only re-established in 1990.

In 1990 the drawing school was re-established as a foundation by the support group for the Brandenburg Art School. Since 1996 it has been back in its original location under its historical name. Since then, the Wredow School of Drawing has primarily served children and young people as a training facility for all kinds of artistic work and is used by the von Saldern-Gymnasium European School , the Theodor Fontane School and the town's adult education center. In 2012, an elevator was added during renovation work, making the drawing school barrier-free.

Building

The historicist building is a monumental, two-story, exposed brick building . He is traufständig to Wredowplatz. Red clinker bricks dominate the facade. The expanded basement is optically separated from the first floor by a cornice . Further cornices shape the facade. The windows are segmentbogig designed lattice windows . They increase in size from the basement to the upper floor. The windows on the first and second floors are incorporated under the eaves in cross-floor panels with yellow clinker bricks. Under the gable facing Jacobstrasse, which is tangent to the square, the windows are individually framed in yellow. The window openings on the first floor are triple stepped into the masonry. On the upper floor they are also designed in steps in the lower part. However, this gradation is lost to about four fifths of the window height. The gable and eaves cornices are accompanied by a sawtooth frieze .

The stairwell to Jacobsgraben is in a clearly projecting central projection . This is rounded off at the side. This is where the portal protruding from the structure is located , which is reached via a thirteen-step flight of stairs that can be accessed from two sides . The roof of the Wredow School of Drawing is a flat gable roof with a wide overhang. On the north-west wall there is a one-story extension and an elevator shaft made of concrete and glass.

Well-known teachers and students

Teacher

  • Walter Garski , was a drawing teacher at the Saldria and also worked in the Wredow drawing school
  • Bodo Henke , lecturer at the Wredow School of Drawing from 1990 to 1995
  • Wilhelm Kuh was the director of the Wredow School of Drawing from 1923 to 1928

student

  • Thomas Bartel , from 1988 member of the so-called Tuesday studio at the Wredow School of Drawing, founding member of the sponsorship group of the drawing school
  • Georg Hülsse , attended the Wredow drawing school in Brandenburg from 1934 to 1937

Web links

literature

  • Detlef Karg (ed.): An important and, in its consequences, extremely beneficial fact ... - The Wredow School of Drawing in Brandenburg on the Havel. be.bra Wissenschaft verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95410-077-4

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marie-Luise Buchinger: City of Brandenburg an der Havel , Part 2: Outer districts and incorporated places, p. 79. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1995, ISBN 3-88462-115-7 .
  2. ↑ our school - that of Saldern-Gymnasium . Accessed March 21, 2015.
  3. ↑ Education with a vision - Vogelsänger inaugurates the sculptor's atelier in Brandenburg's Wredowsch drawing school . Accessed March 22, 2015.

Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 10.4 ″  N , 12 ° 33 ′ 15.6 ″  E