Academy of Fine Arts (Akademie Der Bildenden Kunste) description and photos - Austria: Vienna (Topic)

Academy of Fine Arts (Akademie Der Bildenden Kunste) description and photos - Austria: Vienna. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Akademie Der Bildenden Kunste.

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The Vienna Academy of Fine Arts was founded in 1692 as the private academy of the painter Leopold I Peter Strudel, making it the oldest art academy in Central Europe. After the death of the court painter Peter Strudel in 1714, the academy was temporarily closed. But already in 1726 Emperor Charles VI reopened it.

In 1872, the Academy received the status of a higher educational institution. Since 1876, the Academy has occupied a building designed by the architect Theophilus Hansen in the style of the Italian Renaissance.

In 1907 and 1908, the young Adolf Hitler, who came from Linz, twice tried unsuccessfully to enter drawing classes. He stayed in Vienna and tried to continue his profession as an artist. Soon he was left without a livelihood and began selling amateur paintings, mostly watercolors, until he left Vienna for Munich in May 1913.

Currently, the Academy is one of the leading centers for training artists. The Academy is subdivided into the following institutions: the Institute of Fine Arts, which has three departments for painting, graphics, fine arts, media, sculpture; Institute of Art Theory and Culturology (art theory, philosophy, history); Institute for Conservation and Restoration;
Institute of Natural Sciences and Technologies in Art; School of Teaching Crafts, Design, Textile Art); Institute of Art and Architecture. The academy currently has about 900 students, almost a quarter of whom are international students.

The Art Gallery on the second floor of the West Wing houses an impressive collection of paintings dating back to the 14th century. Particularly noteworthy are Bosch's paintings "The Last Judgment", as well as works by Rubens, Titian and Rembrandt.

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