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State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart

Coordinates: 48°48′01″N 9°10′27″E / 48.8002°N 9.1743°E / 48.8002; 9.1743
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State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart
Other name
ABK Stuttgart
Former name
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart
Typepublic
Established1761
RectorEva-Maria Seng
Students900
Location
Stuttgart
,
Germany

48°48′01″N 9°10′27″E / 48.8002°N 9.1743°E / 48.8002; 9.1743
Websiteabk-stuttgart.de
Campus building Neubau 1 (Neubau 2 cropped right), 2007

The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart (German: Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart, or ABK Stuttgart)[1] is a public fine art university in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1761 and has been located on the Weissenhof since 1946. Its campus consists of three buildings: the Altbau, Neubau 1 or "Architects' Building", and Neubau 2.

History

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The Academy is a fine art university in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg which formed in 1941 through the merging of the former Academy of Fine Arts (Württembergische Akademie der bildenden Künste) with the former School of Applied Arts (Württembergische Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule) to make the Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart. This was reconstituted under the same name in 1946 by Theodor Heuss.[2] Under the rectorate of Wolfgang Kermer, on 22 February 1975, the ″Gesetz über die Kunsthochschulen im Lande Baden-Württemberg (Kunsthochschulgesetz)″[3] passed by the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg came into force. For the first time in the history of the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, this regulated the status and guaranteed the equality of rank with universities.[4] ″The Stuttgart Academy", said Rector Wolfgang Kermer on the occasion of the ″State Art University Weeks 1981″ (Landeskunsthochschulwochen 1981) in Baden-Baden, ″sees its task and responsibility as a ′universitas artium′, whose - certainly high - standards must be to be part of the constantly changing art reality and at the same time to contribute to these changes.″[5]

On 25 June 1761, Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, established an Académie des Artsin his New Palace in the center of Stuttgart, ″where youth can develop as young plants in a nursery″.[citation needed]

This institution went into decline after a second art educational institution founded by Eugene, the Karlsschule, gained in importance so that the Académie des Arts existed only by name. The Karlsschule was an elite school with military education methods, situated behind the New Palace in Stuttgart. In 1781 the Karlsschule was raised by Emperor Joseph II to university status under the name Karls Hohe Schule.[citation needed] One of the unique features was the print workshop, founded in 1776 under the copper engraver Johann Gotthard von Müller.[citation needed]

After the death of Eugene in 1793, the Hohe Karlsschule was disbanded in 1794 by his brother and successor Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg. [citation needed]

35 years later, in 1829, King William I of Württemberg founded an art school in Stuttgart, initially in conjunction with other educational institutions (Vereinigte Kunst-, Real- und Gewerbe-Schule). The ″Royal art school″ (Königliche Kunstschule) gradually developed as a training center, which in 1901 under the direction of Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth received the title ″Royal academy of fine arts″ (Königliche Akademie der bildenden Künste, after 1918 Württembergische Akademie der bildenden Künste).[citation needed]

Under the Nazi regime, in 1941, the academy was linked with the School of Applied Arts (Württembergische Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule, founded in Stuttgart in 1869) under the name Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart (Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design), with each institution retaining its previous location. After World War II, the institution retained this name when it was reconstituted in 1946 by Theodor Heuss, the Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs in the state of Württemberg-Baden. Since the buildings in downtown Stuttgart (Urbanstraße 37/39) had been destroyed in air raids in 1943 and 1944, the academy moved into the building of the former School of Applied Arts, built on the Weißenhof in 1913 under the direction of Bernhard Pankok. By 1906, Pankok had suggested the connexion of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal School of Applied Arts and its workshops (Lehr- und Versuchswerkstätte, founded in 1901). He had planned an art school uniting all artistic disciplines on the Weißenhof area, but had found no resonance in Stuttgart.[6] It was not until the winter of 1956/57 that the academy was extended for the first time on the Weißenhof area with the move into a newly built ″Sculptor′s building″ (″Bildhauerbau″).[7]

In 1950 you could study painting, glass painting, sculpture, free and applied graphics, interior and furniture design (″Innenarchitektur und Möbelbau"), textiles, ceramics, metal and art teaching, and professors included Trude Barth, Otto Baum, Willi Baumeister, Walter Brudi, Rudolf Daudert, Hans Fegers, Eugen Funk, Gerhard Gollwitzer, Peter Otto Heim, Manfred Henninger, Karl Hils, Eberhard Krauß, Hans Meid, Hugo Peters, Karl Rössing, Harmi Ruland, Hermann Sohn, Karl Hans Walter, Hans Warnecke, Kurt Wehlte, Hans Wentzel, Karl Wiehl and Rudolf Yelin.[8]

After the Protests of 1968 at the Academy,[9][10] the university was fundamentally reformed under the rectorate of art historian Wolfgang Kermer in 1975 and 1978,[11] with new university laws for the art and music colleges of Baden-Württemberg. The legal status was clarified and guaranteed equality of rank with universities. The academy decided on a new structure, dissolved the old departments, and formed various specialist groups and study programs. In the 1970s diplomas for design courses were introduced, and the promotion of talented students through state-funded exhibitions and publications was institutionalized. Since 1975, the Academy of Art has had its own art collection, founded by Kermer and comprising the works of current and former teachers as well as alumni.[12] This era created the foundation on which the Academy stands today.[13]

Over more than 250 years of history, many prominent artists and teachers have studied or taught at the Academy. Selected rectors, faculty and alumni are listed in the next sections.

List of rectors

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List of rectors at ABK Stuttgart (since 1946):

  • 1946–1953, Hermann Brachert, sculptor
  • 1953–1955, Karl Rössing, graphic artist
  • 1955–1957, Manfred Henninger, painter
  • 1957–1959, Rudolf Yelin (The Younger), glass painter
  • 1959–1969, Walter Brudi, book artist and typographer
  • 1969–1971, Herbert Hirche, architect, furniture and product designer
  • 1971–1984, Wolfgang Kermer, art historian
  • 1984–1987, Manfred Kröplien, graphic designer
  • 1987–1991, Paul Uwe Dreyer, painter
  • 1991–1994, Wolfgang Henning, architect
  • 1994–1998, Klaus Lehmann, product designer
  • 1998–2004, Paul Uwe Dreyer, painter
  • 2004–2010, Ludger Hünnekens, archaeologist and cultural manager
  • 2010–2016, Petra von Olschowski, art historian and journalist[14]
  • 2017–2022, Barbara Bader, art scientist and teacher[15]

Notable faculty

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See also: Category:Academic staff of State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart

Notable alumni

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See also: Category:State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart alumni

Honorary members and honorary senators of the Academy

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Honorary Members of the Académie des Arts

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Honorary Members of the Stuttgart State Academy of Art an Design (appointment period 1942–1999)

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Honorary Senators (appointment period 2004 to today)

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"Against forgetting"

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Alumni of the Stuttgart art schools, who died in the Holocaust

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Artists who participated in the Stuttgart Jewish art exhibitions in 1935 and/or 1937, presumably studied at the Stuttgart art schools and whose fate is unknown

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Alumni from the Stuttgart art schools who survived the Holocaust

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References

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  1. ^ State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, official title, specified in the Art University Law of the State of Baden-Württemberg
  2. ^ Kermer, Wolfgang: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, in: Gründe und Hintergründe, Informationen des Ministeriums für Wissenschaft und Kunst Baden-Württemberg, 2. Jg., Nr. 2, April 1982, p. 6.
  3. ^ Gesetz über die Kunsthochschulen im Lande Baden-Württemberg (Kunsthochschulgesetz). In: Akademie-Mitteilungen [de] 6: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: für die Zeit vom 1. April 1974 bis 31. März 1975. Hrsg. von Wolfgang Kermer. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Mai 1975, pp. 8–20 (complete print in German)
  4. ^ Kermer, Wolfgang: Daten und Bilder zur Geschichte der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988 (= Verbesserter Sonderdruck aus: Die Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: eine Selbstdarstellung. Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988), unpaginated, [14–15]
  5. ^ Landeskunsthochschulwochen 1981: Gesamtprogramm, Baden-Baden, 5. Juni − 21. Juni, ed. Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst Baden-Württemberg, Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsreferat, Stuttgart, Satz und Druck: Dr. Cantz'sche Druckerei, Stuttgart, unpaginated, [8] (translation from German)
  6. ^ Kermer, Wolfgang: Daten und Bilder zur Geschichte der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988 (= Verbesserter Sonderdruck aus: Die Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: eine Selbstdarstellung. Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988), unpaginated, [6]
  7. ^ Daten zur Geschichte der Akademie: zusammengestellt von Wolfgang Kermer. In: Rektoramt der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart (ed.): Studienführer 94/95. Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 1994, p. 57
  8. ^ Daten zur Geschichte der Akademie: zusammengestellt von Wolfgang Kermer. In: Rektoramt der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart (ed.): Studienführer 94/95. Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 1994, p. 57
  9. ^ Kermer, Wolfgang: Aufruhr am Weißenhof: zu Struktur und Situation der Stuttgarter Kunstakademie zur Zeit der Studentenunruhen 1968/69. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 2006 (WerkstattReihe [de] / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 14) ISBN 3-931485-74-9
  10. ^ Kermer, Wolfgang (ed.): Die Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart im Spiegel der Presse 1970. Stuttgart: Wolfgang Kermer, 2008; Kermer, Wolfgang (ed.): Die Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart im Spiegel der Presse 1971. Stuttgart: Wolfgang Kermer, 2008
  11. ^ Gesetz über die Kunsthochschulen im Lande Baden-Württemberg (Kunsthochschulgesetz–KHSchG). In: Akademie-Mitteilungen [de] 8: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart: für die Zeit vom 1. Juni 1976 bis 31. Oktober 1977. Hrsg. von Wolfgang Kermer. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, März 1978, pp. 46–80 (complete print in German)
  12. ^ Wolfgang Kermer: Die Sammlung der Stuttgarter Akademie: einige Anmerkungen zur Gründung, Vorgeschichte und Entwicklung aus Anlass ihres 30-jährigen Bestehens. Stuttgart: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, 2005 (= WerkstattReihe / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 12) ISBN 3-931485-71-4
  13. ^ Kermer, Wolfgang: ″1968″ und Akademiereform: von den Studentenunruhen zur Neuorganisation der Stuttgarter Akademie in den siebziger Jahren. Ostfildern-Ruit: Edition Cantz, 1998 (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart [de] / ed. Wolfgang Kermer; 9) ISBN 3-89322-446-7
  14. ^ "Stuttgarter Kunstakademie: Rektorin gesucht". Stuttgarter Nachrichten (in German). Retrieved 20 March 2024.
  15. ^ "Barbara Bader becomes Rector of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts". Organisator. 19 April 2022.
  16. ^ "The photographer that earned the mythical trust of Ferrari". www.classicdriver.com. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  17. ^ Schüle, Ilse (1994). "Aus frühen und spàten Jahren (From Early and Late Years)". Jahrbuch des Historischen Vereins für Württembergisch Franken (Yearbook of the Historical Association for Württemberg Franconia. 78: 513–529.
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