Drawing school
With the onset of industrialization in the 18th century, drawing schools were training centers created to improve the technical and artistic training of the craftsmen. They emerged on the initiative of princes and entrepreneurs. These institutes, which were initially organized primarily as Sunday and evening schools , were created alongside the academically oriented art schools .
Well-known drawing schools were
- Drawing school for craft apprentices (1716) founded by Johann Daniel Preißler in Nuremberg
- Drawing School Pforzheim (1767),
- Grand Ducal Hessian Academy of Drawing in Hanau (1772)
- Princely Free Drawing School Weimar (1776),
- Drawing School of the Hamburg Society for the Transportation of the Coast and Useful Trades ,
- Elementary drawing school for builders and professionals , Cologne, (1786) by Egidius Mengelberg
- Drawing school for craftsmen at the Berlin Academy of the Arts (1786)
- Drawing School Magdeburg (1793).
In the 19th century, these institutions were differentiated into arts and crafts schools , trade schools or craft art schools . In the 20th century they went to universities or technical colleges.
Web links
- Promotion of handicrafts in the German Empire using the example of Flensburg ( Memento from October 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )