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7 unusual facts about Academy of Fine Arts


Academy of Fine Arts, Verona

The Academy of Fine Arts of Verona is also the Center of the National Observatory of Outsider Art, a joint Department with the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology of the University of Verona.

Franz Sales Meyer

In 1873, he accepted to the faculty of the Grand Ducal School of Applied Arts in Karlsruhe and, in 1878, he was appointed as a teacher.

Götz Adriani

Since 1985, Adriani holds the title of an honorary professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe.

Konrad Petzold

After an internship in the Film & Television school of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, he shot his first feature film in Czechoslovakia in 1955 a comedy called "The Fools Among Us".

Marie Javorkova

She studied under Professor Karel Rusin VUT - foundry, sculpture and with more Professors at the Prague Academy of Art.

Markus Heinsdorff

He started his career working as a gold smith, wood and stone sculptor before he studied abstract sculpture under Prof. Jacobsen at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (1976 to 1981).

T. C. Steele

To help Steele obtain additional art training in Europe, his friend and art patron, Herman Lieber, arranged to provide financial support for the family so Steele could study at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.


André Gill

Born Louis-Alexandre Gosset de Guînes at Paris, the son of the Comte de Guînes and Sylvie-Adeline Gosset, he studied at this city's Academy of Fine Arts.

Andrej Trobentar

He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 1976 and specialized in painting under Jože Ciuha.

Artur Markowicz

Markowicz studied with Leopold Loeffler, Florian Cynk and with Jan Matejko at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts in 1886–1895.

Augusto Passaglia

Passaglia was named professor of sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence, and knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy.

Bencho Obreshkov

He graduated under P. Klissurov and I. Angelov from the Sofia Academy of Fine Arts in 1920, and specialized in painting under Oskar Kokoshka in Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden in 1926 and sculpture under Antoine Bourdelle, Paris in 1925 - 1927.

Davor Džalto

As a visiting and honorary professor he has thought at various Universities in Europe and the US, including University of Prague, Indiana University, Fordham University of New York and the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade.

Giuseppe Agujari

After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, he later enrolled at the Municipal Technical School of Trieste, where his brother Tito Agujari was his tutor.

Henryk Minkiewicz

There he joined the Medical Faculty of the Jagiellonian University and, simultaneously, Faculty of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts.

Jens Semjan

Semjan studied fine arts from 2001 to 2006 as a master student of Joseph Kosuth, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

John M. Donaldson

Following that he returned to Europe where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany, at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, finishing his European art studies in Venice, Italy.

Kleparz

The most interesting sights in Kleparz are the Kleparz Market Square with colorful stalls and the Jan Matejko Square located almost side by side and flanked by the Academy of Fine Arts and the St. Florian Church with the Grunwald Monument at its centre.

Lazzaro Donati

Lazzaro Donati (1926-1977) was born in Florence in 1926 and attended the Academy of Fine Arts.

Mariusz Zaruski

Later, he moved to Kraków where between 1901-1906 he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts.

Nicolas Carone

He began formal art studies at the age of eleven at the Leonardo da Vinci School located at St. Mark's Church on E.10th St. He studied at the National Academy of Design under Leon Kroll, Art Students League of New York, Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, and the Rome Academy of Fine Arts.

Pál Szinyei Merse

Born in Szinyeújfalu, Hungary (today Chminianska Nová Ves, Slovakia), he learned painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich under Karl von Piloty.

Rihard Jakopič

In Ljubljana, Jakopič established the Slovene School of Impressionist Drawing and Painting, the predecessor of the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Ljubljana.

Robert Schöller

When applying to the Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts in 1968, he showed up at the interview with only two etchings which he had to borrow back from clients, and eventually was told to go and paint on his own because there was not much to teach him, but, he also was invited to join a master's class.

Royal Road, Kraków

The Royal Road crosses Matejko Square (pl. Matejki), passes the Academy of Fine Arts (Akademia Sztuk Pięknych) on the right-hand side and crosses Basztowa Street – to the medieval barbican (Barbakan).

Ryszard Horowitz

He later studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, where he became interested in photography, particularly the work of American photographers.

Sukiennice Museum

The new Museum elected Władysław Łuszczkiewicz, Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts as its first director.

Svjetlan Junaković

He works as a painter, sculptor, illustrator and graphic designer and is also a lecturer in illustration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and the International School in Sarmede in Italy.


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Annegret Soltau

From 1967 to 1972 she studied with Hans Thiemann, Kurt Kranz, Rudolf Hausner and David Hockney at the Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg in Germany, 1972 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in Austria.

Bay Area Houston Ballet and Theatre

The group's home is the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Webster (in the Clear Lake Area near Houston), whose faculty résumés include the Houston Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre, and Broadway.

Behjat Sadr

After her graduation, she won a scholarship to the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome at the Naples Academy of Fine Arts.

Bianca Wallin

Among the teachers at the Academy of Fine Arts were such famous artists as Isaac Grünewald and Wilhelm Smith in figure drawing and Albert Engström in drawing.

Bojan Hadzihalilovic

He graduated from the Sarajevo Academy of Fine Arts in 1989 and with his colleague Lejla Mulabegovic formed the designer group called TRIO Sarajevo in 1989.

Boots and Her Buddies

Martin grew up in Monmouth, Illinois where his father, George Martin, was a Monmouth College biology professor, and he spent three years attending Monmouth College, leaving his junior year to study at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and joining NEA in 1921 as a cartoonist.

Bronisław Chromy

He was born at Leńcze near Lanckorona in 1925, he was educated at the Secondary School of Fine Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, graduating in 1956.

Carl Gangolf Kayser

Carl Gangolf Kayser was enrolled in the sculpture class of the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna and in that of Munich.

Christian Moeller

He studied architecture at the College of Applied Sciences in Frankfurt and under Gustav Peichl at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

Deng Wei

During Deng Wei’s youth, he studied painting under the tutelage of Li Keran, a painter and professor at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts.

Eduard Ovčáček

Between 1957 and 1963 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (Slovakia) under professor Peter Matejka.

Ercole III d'Este, Duke of Modena

In 1785 he founded the Atesine Academy of Fine Arts: during his reign arts and culture flourished, and among his protegées were Lazzaro Spallanzani, Giambattista Venturi, Girolamo Tiraboschi, Lodovico Ricci and others.

Ermonela Jaho

studies at the Liceu Artistik "Jordan Misja" in Tirana in 1992 for singing she was accepted at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana where she studied for one year.

Fausto Antonioli

Originally from Bergamo, he was a pupil of Giuseppe Diotti at the Accademia Carrara in the fourth decade of the 18th century and subsequently completed his training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, under the Neoclassical painter Odorico Politi and the landscapist Francesco Bagnara.

Filiz Ahmet

Filiz Ahmet graduated from medical school and then the Academy of Fine Arts in Skopje in 2003.

François Gall

After having Aurel Popp for the first master, he studied art at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts - Workshop Coromaldi in Rome before joining the Collegium Hungaricum (equivalent to Villa Medici), then travel to Europe through Scholarship to study obtained for his talents as a sculptor, ceramicist, designer, painter and portraitist already large, including Roman and Hungarian families, bystanders and onlookers, friends, musicians, singers, street scenes of markets and caravans circuses street.

Galo Galecio

He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Guayaquil, and received a scholarship to study printmaking and mural painting at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Mexico from 1944-1946.

Georg Hermann Nicolai

In mid-summer 1850 he succeeded Gottfried Semper as Professor of the Bauatelier of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts many months after Semper had participated in building a barricade in the May Uprising of the previous year.

Günter de Bruyn

1993 Großer Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste (Greater Literary Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts)

Henri Huet

« Remembering Henri Huet, the Young Veteran », by Raphaël Millet, catalogue of the exhibition Requiem, Singapore, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), in partnership with Month of Photography Asia, July 2011, pp.

İstasyon Academy of Fine Arts

İstasyon Academy of Fine Arts (in Turkish İstasyon Sanat Akademisi ) is a private art institution founded by architect Ömer Ferda Düzenli and artist/painter Hülya Düzenli in İstanbul, Fındıklı in 1980.

Jerzy Różycki

Their son, Janusz Różycki, born May 10, 1939, would complete his studies at Warsaw's Academy of Fine Arts and go on to be a member of the Polish fencing team that won a silver medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

Lema Kusa

He also became CEO of the National Institute of Arts, Kinshasa, a position he was holding in 2008 while also a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts.

In 1958 he entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Kinshasa to study advertising painting and illustrations.

Ludovico Passini

He initially enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, but then transferred to Trieste, and then to Venice, where he was mentored by the water color painter Karl Werner.

Luigi Querena

Following in the footsteps of his father Lattanzio, a painter of historical and religious works, Luigi Querena started at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts when he had just turned 12 and distinguished himself as a painter of views.

Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts

The Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts does not have a doctoral programme.

Matko Vekić

From 1996 to 1999 he worked as a lecturer of drawing and painting at the School of Applied Arts and Design in Zagreb, and from 1999 to 2003 he was a teaching assistant (later assistant professor) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Široki Brijeg, University of Mostar.

Neoclassical architecture in Milan

Within a few years, the Academy of Fine Arts and the Braidense Library were founded while the astronomical observatory, which was initially just moved into the palace, became the modern Brera Astronomical Observatory while the Brera Botanical Garden was established on the site of the Jesuits' herb garden.

Nicodemus David Hufford III

In the 1930s he studied his chosen profession at the Chicago Art Institute, the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and the Chicago Professional School and American Academy, and in the early 1940s he served an apprenticeship under two top illustrators, Haddon Sundblom and Harry Anderson.

Ole Wanscher

Taking a cue from his father, an art historian, Wanscher published several histories of furniture design during his time at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, including The History of the Art of Furniture and Five Thousand Years of Furniture.

Paolo Consorti

Paolo Consorti attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata, and while there, he participated in some cinematographic collaborations with Sergei Bondarchuk.

Pietro Gaudenzi

He gained many prestigious appointments in the 1930s, including a professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, the Mussolini prize for arts (1936), and was nominated member of the Accademia dei Virtuosi al Pantheon, and to the Accademia di San Luca in Rome.

Princess Maria Antonia of Parma

She was a gifted painter and received her training from Giuseppe Baldrighi and Domenico Muzzi, both court painters and professors of the Academy of Fine Arts of Parma.

Raffaele Armando Califano Mundo

His first master was the watercolor artist Giovanni Giordano Lanza (1827-1889), then he briefly studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, then he went to work in the studio under Stanislao Lista.

Raffaele Spanò

He was knighted into the Order of the Crown of Italy, Corresponding Associate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, member of the Royal Academy Raffaello in Urbino, honorary professor of the Royal Institute of Fine Arts in Naples, and member of the Director's Council of this Institute.

Raffaello Tancredi

Tancredi became professor to Academy of Fine Arts and was knighted into the Order of the Crown of Italy.

Ramanathan Academy of Fine Arts

The Ramanathan Academy of Fine Arts (RAFA) was founded by Subaiya Nadesan, son-in-law of Sir P. Ramanathan.

Raphaël Millet

« Remembering Henri Huet, the Young Veteran », catalogue of the exhibition Requiem, Singapore, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), in partnership with Month of Photography Asia, July 2011, pp.

Red Gate Gallery

Red Gate was founded in 1991 by Brian Wallace, an Australian who traveled to China in 1984 and returned in 1985 and 1986, remaining to study and to work at the Foreign Languages Press from 1989-1990 before entering the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing to study Chinese Art History.

Veronika Drahotová

In 1992 she became one of the youngest students ever to matriculate at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague (AVU), studying under Jiří David and Jiří Sopko, receiving a one-year scholarship (1995) at the San Francisco Art Institute, and a Masters of Art degree in 2000.

Vilhelm Wohlert

Wohlert was also an educator, early in his career at University of California, Berkeley, and later for many years as a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Vincenzo Petrocelli

Petrocelli was named honorary professor of the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy and corresponding associate of many Academies of Fine Arts.

Zack Mosley

His family then moved to Oklahoma City and he worked for a while as a retail clerk before leaving to attend the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the Chicago Art Institute where he assisted Dick Calkins on Buck Rogers and Skyroads.