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2 unusual facts about Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe


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.


2013 in robotics

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation is scheduled to be organized in Karlsruhe, Germany in May.

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.

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.

Apollonius von Maltitz

He was successively attache in the Russian legations in Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Vienna, Berlin, and Rio de Janeiro; in 1836 he became a secretary (Legationsrat and Gesandtschaftssekretär) in Munich.

Bombing of Ludwigshafen and Oppau in World War II

Ludwigshafen also refined "30-50 tons/day of crude oil...brought in from Brücksel, near Karlsruhe...to products including lube oils." About 2.5 miles away from Ludwigshafen, an Oppau plant produced fertilizer and up to "800 T/day nitrogen as ammonia and a considerable part of this was exported as liquid ammonia to Hochst, Wolfen and Bittefeld." A separate Oppau plant produced up to 60 T/day of urea.

Carl Johann Steinhauser

Today he is best known for his Bremen memorials to Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers and Johann Smidt, his Weimer sculpture of Goethe mit der Psyche, and his Hermann and Dorothea in Karlsruhe.

Carlsruhe

Karlsruhe, a city in Germany (Karlsruhe was formerly Carlsruhe)

Christopher of Baden-Durlach

Christopher of Baden-Durlach (9 October 1684, Karlsburg Castle, Durlach – 2 May 1723, Karlsruhe) was Prince and (titular) Margrave of Baden-Durlach.

Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken

In 1896 Loewe founded Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken with a munitions plant in Karlsruhe (Baden), formerly Deutsche Metallpatronenfabrik Lorenz, and the weapons plant in Berlin.

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.

Gregor von Feinaigle

Obligated to flee the monastery with the other monks due to the Napoleonic invasions, he became an itinerant professor in Karlsruhe, Paris, London, Glasgow and Dublin.

Harold von Mickwitz

In 1886, he began teaching piano at the Karlsruhe Conservatory of Music, and from 1893 to 1895, he taught piano at the Wiesbaden Conservatory of Music.

Henryk Minkiewicz

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

Hep-Hep riots

The riots swept through other Bavarian towns and villages, then spread to Bamberg, Bayreuth, Darmstadt, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Frankfurt, Koblenz, Cologne and other cities along the Rhine, and as far north as Bremen, Hamburg, and Lübeck.

Hermann Becht

Hermann Becht (19 March 1939, Karlsruhe – 12 February 2009, Marxzell) was a German operatic bass-baritone.

Hilchenbach

Johann Heinrich Jung (known as Jung-Stilling) (born 12 September 1740 in Grund; died 2 April 1817 in Karlsruhe), taylor, teacher, eye specialist, economist (kameralist), writer, consultat of the Count of Baden.

James Fitz-James Stuart, 2nd Duke of Berwick

He inherited titles in the Jacobite and Spanish nobility on the death of his father in battle in 1734 at Philippsburg, (near Karlsruhe, presently located in the German "Bundesland" of Baden-Württemberg), during the War of the Polish Succession.

Joint Research Centre

The JRC has seven scientific institutes, located at six different sites in Belgium (Brussels and Geel), Germany (Karlsruhe), Italy (Ispra), the Netherlands (Petten) and Spain (Seville), with a wide range of laboratories and unique research facilities.

Joseph Koerner

While writing the latter book, Koerner collaborated with Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel on the 2002 exhibition Iconoclash at the ZKM in Karlsruhe.

Joseph von Radowitz

In 1836, Radowitz went as Prussian military plenipotentiary to the federal diet at Frankfurt, and in 1842 was appointed envoy to the courts of Karlsruhe, Darmstadt and Nassau.

Karlsruhe Nuclide Chart

The Karlsruhe Nuclide Chart was first published in 1958 with the work of Walter Seelmann-Eggebert and Gerda Pfennig from what is today the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Karlsruhe–Mühlacker railway

Baden saw the line has having two important tasks: on the one hand, connecting the industrial town of Pforzheim to the rail network, on the other hand, the creation of a possible direct connection between France, southern Germany and the Austrian Empire.

Karlsruhe, North Dakota

Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Karlsruhe features works by the artist Count Berthold von Imhoff.

Karmen

KARMEN (Karlsruhe Rutherford Medium Energy Neutrino experiment), accelerator neutrino experiment

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.

Kurchatov Center for Synchrotron Radiation and Nanotechnology

The magnetic structure is very similar to that of the ANKA symchrotron in Karlsruhe.

Ludwig Nohl

In 1875 he was a Dozent at the polytechnic in Karlsruhe (predecessor to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and became a full professor in 1880.

Luise Neumann

At the age of 16 she made her debut in a performance of the "Deutschen Hausfrau" in Karlsruhe and in 1839 she joined the Burgtheater in Vienna, which she was a member of until 1856.

Manchán of Min Droichit

This anonymous work is uniquely preserved in a manuscript now held at Karlsruhe (Germany), but once in the possession of the Reichenau monastery.

Marek Krejčí

Bundesliga and sharing the position of the league's second best goalscorer with Karlsruhe's Giovanni Federico.

Marie Javorkova

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

Marie Luise Neunecker

Volker David Kirchner dedicated his Orfeo for baritone, horn and piano on poems from Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus to her, premiered on 6 May 1988 in Karlsruhe with Hermann Becht and Nina Tichman.

Monster of Aramberri

As the Museum of Natural History of Karlsruhe could not accept any more remains because it was at its maximum capacity, new remains were sent to the Museo del Desierto in Saltillo, Coahuila, also in Mexico, where the specialist in marine reptiles, Dra.

Peter Emelieze

His personal best times are 6.60 seconds in the 60 metres (indoor), achieved in February 2009 in Karlsruhe; 10.18 seconds in the 100 metres, achieved in August 2008 in Bottrop; and 21.35 seconds in the 200 metres (indoor), achieved in February 2009 in Eaubonne.

Princess Sophie of Sweden

During the revolution of 1848, she was forced to flee from Karlsruhe with her family to Strasburg.

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).

Rudolf Louis

He studied in Geneva, where he was a pupil of Friedrich Klose, and continued his studies in Vienna and then Karlsruhe under Felix Mottl before becoming conductor of the theatre orchestras in Landshut and Lübeck.

SAP Arena

A tram line (number 6) connects the SAP Arena to Mannheim city center and a newly built road connection to the B 38a highway connects it to the A 656 Autobahn, leading to the A656/A 6 interchange, connecting eastbound Mannheim to Heidelberg (A656), and north/southbound to Frankfurt, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart (A6), as well as a little north on the A6 to Kaiserlautern (westbound).

South Franconian German

South Franconian (Südfränkisch) is a High Franconian dialect which is spoken in the northernmost part of Baden-Württemberg in Germany, around Karlsruhe, Mosbach and Heilbronn.

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.

T Visionarium

T Visionarium is an art installation by Neil Brown, Dennis Del Favero, Matthew McGinity and Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel developed through the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research at The University of New South Wales in co-operation with ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe.

Wiesloch-Walldorf station

The Karlsruhe—Heidelberg section of the Rhine Valley Railway was opened on 15 April 1843 as part of the construction of the Baden Mainline from Mannheim via Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Baden-Baden and Freiburg to Basel, which was initially built to 1600 mm broad gauge.


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