State Drawing Academy Hanau

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The State Drawing Academy in Hanau is a vocational, vocational and technical school for professions in the design of precious metals and one of the oldest goldsmith schools in Europe.

history

1772 "Academy of Drawing Art"

The State Drawing Academy Hanau traces its origins to the year 1772 by Hanauer gold and silversmiths initiated and by the in Hanau resident counts of Hanau Münzenberg, Landgraf and Crown Prince Wilhelm IX. "Drawing school" for craftsmen founded by Hessen-Kassel as the "Academy of Drawing Art". The aim was to increase the design quality of the Hanau gold and silversmiths for jewelry and silver implements . From 1837, under Pelissier, the artistic subjects were expanded to include theory of composition, modeling, drawing from nature and enamel painting. In 1839 a founding company was set up in order to observe and promote the art appearances on the market parallel to the academy work. From 1863, under director Karl Hausmann, the cultural conflict between art and applied arts took place in favor of the specialized training of the next generation of goldsmiths.

1866 "Royal Prussian Drawing Academy"

In 1880 Julius Carl Raschdorff built a new building for the drawing academy , the old building of the facility as it still stands today. This expanded the range of subjects to include architectural drawing as well as jewelry and ornament drawing. In 1883 the school for girls was opened and an art embroidery class was established. In 1886 workshops for goldsmiths, silversmiths, chiselling and gem setting were established . An engraving class was set up.

1901 "Technical school for the precious metal industry"

Historic school building on Gärtnerstrasse

The number of students rose to 150. B. steel engraving, lithography, ivory carving, gem setting, diamond grinding, as well as freehand and body drawing, life drawing, drafting and modeling expanded. The final school examination was put on an equal footing with the journeyman's examination.

Time during National Socialism

In 1933, under Emil Lettré, the academy was renamed the Goldsmith School and the artistic approach was dropped. As a result, the number of students fell sharply. From 1935 onwards there were only five teachers teaching ten students. The old town hall , up to now the seat of the Hanau History Association , was also renamed the German Goldsmith House and seat of the “Society for Goldsmithing ”. The academy was renamed again as the Master School of German Crafts . Initially, the school management limited itself to training journeymen to become masters. However, the craft businesses urged the promotion of the next generation and demanded systematic basic training. During the war years, classes in the drawing academy come to a standstill. Bullet cases are produced on three days of the week, otherwise school operations are maintained as far as possible.

1945 until today

The building designed by Raschdorff was badly damaged on March 19, 1945. After the end of the war, Hugo Leven was reinstated as director and thus linked to the artistic character of the academy's work. The school was rebuilt as a training and further education institution for the precious metal processing industry. In 1953 the reconstruction was completed. The ceiling of the auditorium was painted by Heinz-Rudi Müller from Wiesbaden. In 1979 an extension was built with class and administrative rooms. In January 2005 the inauguration of a building with Corten steel and a glass facade, which contains a scientific room, design rooms and the forum . The multi-year renovation work and the refurbishment of the workshops and design rooms were completed in spring 2014. The Association of Friends of the Drawing Academy was founded.

Today, goldsmiths, silversmiths, metalworkers (formerly, belters, chiselers ), engravers and stone setters are trained at this school both part-time (dual) and full-time . Based on an extensive basic technical training, classic and modern-avant-garde and innovative design concepts are implemented in terms of design and technology. The drawing academy offers numerous subjects and techniques such as enamelling ( enamel ), plastic design, various casting processes ( centrifugal casting , vacuum pressure casting), deep drawing , embossing and pressing, laser welding processes, CAD jewelry and device design, 3D rapid prototyping , flat engraving, relief engraving, CNC - Engraving but also representational drawing, life drawing , technical drawing, landscape and nature drawing. Regular public lectures by external speakers on design topics in the areas of jewelry, equipment, objects and sculpture complement the range of courses.

The training at the vocational school with a vocational college certificate takes three and a half years. This qualification is equivalent to the journeyman's certificate in the craft. Anyone who is trained to become a state-certified designer within two years of completing their first professional training can also take the master craftsman's examination parallel to this qualification from the two-year technical school . As part of the dual training - in which the manual training takes place in gold and silversmiths - the theoretical part is taught in the drawing academy. In addition, the trainees receive regular instruction in the subjects of engraving, gem setting, chasing / metal forming and silversmithing.

Since autumn 2012, the Hanau State Drawing Academy has also been privately sponsored by the Brothers Grimm Vocational Academy Hanau (BG-BA). The students for design management and product design are also vocational school students at the drawing academy and finish their studies and training with a Bachelor of Arts as well as with the vocational school final exam, which is equivalent to a journeyman's certificate.

The drawing academy has an archive of historically significant literature on the history of jewelry, an excellent collection of jewelry drawings from the late 19th century, and an extensive academic library on the subject of precious metal design .

Directors

  • 1772 Jean-Louis Gallien, engraver
  • 1806 Conrad Westermayr (1765–1834), engraver
  • 1837 Theodor Pelissier (1794–1863), painter
  • 1863 Karl Hausmann (1825–1886), painter
  • 1886 Max Wiese (1846–1925), sculptor
  • 1909 Hugo Leven (1874–1956), sculptor
  • 1933 Emil Lettré
  • 1935 Hermann Wandlinger, craftsman
  • 1942 Bernd Oehmichen
  • 1945 Hugo Leven (1874–1956), sculptor
  • 1950 Bernd Oehmichen
  • Walter Dennert
  • Hermann Schadt
  • Gabriele Jahns-Duttenhöfer

Teacher

  • 1772 Jean Louis Gallien, engraver
  • 1772 Jean Jaques Bury (1728–1785), silversmith and enameller
  • 1772 Justus David Wächter, painter
  • 1806 Carl Lotter
  • 1869–1899 Etienne Simon Jassoy (1828–1901), goldsmith, engraver and jewelry draftsman
  • 1921–1933, 1949–1963 Reinhold Ewald (1890–1974), design
  • Fried Lübbecke (1883–1965), art historian
  • Emil Thormählen (1859–1941), architect
  • Karl Berthold (1889–1975), goldsmith
  • Dieter Oehm (* 1947), sculptor and painter
  • Wilhelm Schmidthild (1876–1951), painter, graphic artist, illustrator and art professor
  • Louis Beschor
  • Heinrich Hahn
  • August Bock
  • Max Peteler
  • Ina Schneider
  • Hermann Benner (* 1935), vocational training researcher and professional pedagogue
  • Eckhard Adler (* 1948) Head of the Design and Workshop Department, from 1988 to 2008

Known students

Among the known students were z. B.

literature

  • Festschrift of the Hanau Drawing Academy for the 150th anniversary , Hanau 1922.
  • Commemorative publication 180 years "State Drawing Academy Hanau" - Technical School for the Precious Metals Trade , Hanau 1953.
  • Anniversary publication 200 years of the "State Drawing Academy Hanau" , Hanau 1972.
  • Ina Schneider: On the founding history of the State Drawing Academy in Hanau. In: Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 20, 1965, p. 215.
  • Hermann Schadt: 222 years of the Hanau drawing academy - between art and craft. Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-925369-36-8 .
  • The gold and silver city. Hanau and historicism. Magistrat der Stadt Hanau (ed.), Hanau 2004, ISBN 3-926011-43-2 .
  • Corinna Trautermann: Hanauer drawing academy through the ages 1772–1948 , Hanau o. J. (1972).
  • Hans Günther Bickert and Norbert Nail: Daniel Jeanne Wyttenbach [Née Gallien] - Marburg's first honorary doctorate (1827). Marburg 2000; 71 p .; Illustr. (= Publications of the University Library Marburg 98), ISBN 3-8185-0300-1 .
  • Gerhard Bott : Magnificent silver of a tsar's daughter. With contributions from Carla Fandrey, Hermann Schadt, Ina Schneider, Bruno-Wilhelm Thiele, Klagenfurt 2001. ISBN 3-9501053-1-X .
  • Bruno-Wilhelm Thiele: The development of the Hanau precious metal industry since the 16th century. In: The gold and silver city. Hanau and historicism. Magistrat der Stadt Hanau (ed.), Hanau 2004, pp. 7–47, ISBN 3-926011-43-2 .
  • Bruno-Wilhelm Thiele: New research results from the archive of the State Drawing Academy Hanau. In: 1975–2006 Festschrift for Rudolf Schäffer. Magistrat der Stadt Hanau (ed.), Hanau 2006, pp. 47–63 (Art Nouveau jewelry and equipment in Hanau).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ “ It is complained that during the official revision of the same, the façades were significantly impaired by the omission of the sgraffito decoration, which is indispensable for the effect. "( Deutsche Bauzeitung 14 (1880), p. 187.)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monika Becker: Creativity and Historicism Jewelry and Design 1848–1870, University of Münster, 1997, ISBN 3-8267-2476-3
  2. ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung 14 (1880), p. 187.
  3. ↑ Chronicle of the Bury Family
  4. ↑ Gerhard Bott, Richard Schaffer-Hartmann, Bruno-Wilhelm Thiele, The Gold and Silver City: Hanau and the Historicism, Magistrat der Stadt Hanau, 2004, p. 16; Journal for Fine Arts, Carl von Lützow (Ed.), Leipzig, 1872, p. 452

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 37 ″  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 8 ″  E