Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf is the Arts Academy of the city of Düsseldorf. Notable artists who attended the academy include Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Thomas Demand and Andreas Gursky. In the stairway of its main entrance, are engraved the Words: "Für unsere Studenten nur das Beste" ("For our Students only the Best").

Early history

The school was founded by Lambert Krahe in 1762 as a school of drawing. In 1773, it became the "Kurfürstlich-Pfälzische Academie der Maler, Bildhauer- und Baukunst" (Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of the Electorate of the Palatinate). During the Napoleonic Wars, the earl's art collection was inherited by the Wittelsbach family and moved to Munich, prompting the Prussian government—who had annexed the Düsseldorf region after Napoleon had surrendered—to change it into a Royal Arts Academy in Düsseldorf, in 1819.

In the 1850s, the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf became internationally renowned, with many students coming from Scandinavia, Russia and the United States to learn, among other things, the genre and landscape painting associated with the "Düsseldorf school".

Directors

• 1819–1824 Peter von Cornelius
• 1826–1859 Wilhelm von Schadow
• 1924–1933 Walter Kaesbach
• 1945–1946 Ewald Mataré
• 1959–1965 Hans Schwippert
• 1972–1981 Norbert Kricke
• 1988–2009 Markus Lüpertz
• Since 2009 Tony Cragg

Notable professors and students

• Tomma Abts (2010–present Professor)
• Andreas Achenbach (1827–1834 Student)
• Oswald Achenbach (1835–1841 Student; 1863–1872 Professor)
• Peter Angermann (1968–1973)
• Karl Aegerter (1888-1969)
• Glenn Bautista (1980–1985 Student, under professors Rolf Sackenheim, Maria Buras)
• Bernd Becher (1976–1996 Professor)
• Joseph Beuys (1947–1952 Student, 1961–1972 Professor (kicked out), Visiting, 1980–85)
• Anna and Bernhard Blume (1937–present/1937–1911 Students)
• Arnold Böcklin (1845–1847 Student)
• Christoph Büchel (1992–1997 Student)
• Maria Buras (1980–1985 Assistant Professor)
• Michael Buthe (1944–1994 Professor)
• Max Clarenbach (1894–1901 Student, 1917–1945 Professor)
• Tony Cragg (1979–1988 Assistant Professor, 1988–2001 Professor, 2010 Director)
• Siegfried Cremer (1977–1994 Professor of Drawing Technique)
• Udo Dziersk (1983–1988 Student, 2002–present Professor)
• Peter Doig (2005–present Professor)
• Felix Droese (1970–1976 Student)
• Alfred Eckhardt (1947–1952 Student, 1961–1977 Professor of Drawing Technique)
• John Whetton Ehninger (c. 1848–49) - (Student)
• Helmut Federle (1999–2007 Professor)
• Anselm Feuerbach (1845–1848 Student)
• Katharina Fritsch (1977–1984 Student)
• Rupprecht Geiger (1965–1976 Professor)
• Eugen Gomringer (1977–1990 Professor)
• Kuno Gonschior (1957-1961 Student)
• Günter Grass (1948–1952 Student)
• Gotthard Graubner (1954–1959 Student, 1976–1992 Professor)
• Andreas Gursky (1981–1987 Student, master-student of Bernd Becher, since 2009 Professor)
• Erwin Heerich (1958–1965 Student, 1969–1988 Professor)
• Anatol Herzfeld (Student, 1964-1972)
• Shadrack Hlalele (1981–86 Student under professors Joseph Beuys and Rolf Sackenheim)
• Hans Schwippert (1959–1965 Professor and Director)
• Hans Hollein (1967–1965 Professor)
• Ottmar Hörl (1979–1981 Student)
• Candida Höfer (1973–x Student)
• Johannes Hüppi (1984 bis 1990 master-student of Dieter Krieg)
• Axel Hütte (1973–1981 Student)
• Oliver Jordan (1980–1985 Student)
• Jörg Immendorff (1963–1969 Student, 1996–2007 Professor)
• William Keith (1869-1870 Student)
• Anselm Kiefer (early 1970s, Student)
• Karin Kneffel (1981–1987 master-student of Gerhard Richter)
• Paul Klee (1931–1933 Professor)
• Georg Klusemann (1964–1968 Student)
• Imi Knoebel (1964–1971 Student)
• Heinrich Christoph Kolbe (dates unknown, Student; 1822–1832 Professor)
• Attila Kotányi
• Walter Köngeter (1952–1967 Professor of Constructive Arts)
• Dieter Krieg (1978–2002 Professor of Painting)
• Rolf Krummenauer (1953–1969 Teacher of Forming Arts)
• Rainer Maria Latzke (1972–1976 Student of G.Richter, 2008 Professor)
• Rita McBride (Professor for sculpturing)
• Georg Meistermann (1928–1933 Student, 1955–1959 Professor)
• Orlando Mohorovic (1970–1974 master-student of Joseph Beuys)
• Harald Naegeli (associate of Joseph Beuys)
• Yoshitomo Nara (1988–1993 Student)
• Heinrich Nauen (1921–1937 Professor)
• Albert Oehlen (seit 2000 Professor)
• Markus Oehlen (1976–1982 Student)
• Nam June Paik (1979–1996 Professor of Sculpture)
• Blinky Palermo (1962–1967 Student)
• Arne Paus (1964–1965 Student)
• Alois Plum (1955–1957 Student)
• Sigmar Polke (1961–1967 Student)
• Willy Reetz (1920–1924 Student)
• Lois Renner (1985–1988 Student)
• Gerhard Richter (1961–1963 Student, 1971–1993 Professor)
• Teod Richter (1964–1968 Student)
• Klaus Rinke (1974–2004 Professor)
• Reiner Ruthenbeck (1962–1968 Student)
• Thomas Ruff (Student, Professor)
• Rolf Sackenheim (1963–1985 Professor)
• Kaspar Scheuren (1829–1835 Student)
• Felix Schramm
• Axel Schultes
• Rudolf Schwarz (1953–1961 Professor)
• HA Schult (1958–1961 Student)
• Thomas Schütte (1973–1981 Student)
• Fritz Schwegler (1973–2001 Assistant Professor and Professor)
• Adolf Seel (1844–1850 Student)
• Dirk Skreber (1982–1988 Student)
• Werner Spies (1975–2002 Professor of the history of arts)
• Pia Stadtbäumer (1981–1988 Student)
• Thomas Struth (1973–1978 Student)
• Norbert Tadeusz (1961–1966 Student)
• Rosemarie Trockel (Professor)
• Günther Uecker (1953–1957 Student, 1976–1995 Professor)
• Oswald Mathias Ungers
• Georg Wilhelm Volkhart (1831–1840 Student)
• Max Volkhart (1848–1924 Student)
• Wolf Vostell (1955 - 1958 Student)
• Karl Ferdinand Wimar (c. 1851 Student)

References

Albert Bierstadt 1853

External links

• www.kunstakademie-duesseldorf.de