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9 unusual facts about Dresden Academy of Fine Arts


Charles François Hutin

In 1764, he became director of the Dresden Royal Academy of Arts.

He became director of the Royal Academy of Arts in Dresden.

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Kurt Schwitters, (1887–1948) German painter and practitioner of Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism

In 1764, the “Allgemeine Kunst-Academie der Malerey, Bildhauer-Kunst, Kupferstecher- und Baukunst” (General Academy of Arts for Painting, Sculpture, Copperplate Engraving and Architecture) was founded by order of the Prince-Elector Frederick Christian.

On the side of the building facing the Elbe, the names of Pheidias, Iktinos, Praxiteles, Polykleitos, Lysippos, Erwin von Steinbach, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and Dürer are inscribed on the wall and on the other side the motto "DEM VATERLAND ZU ZIER UND EHR" - "For the Honour and Adornment of the Fatherland" - is inscribed.

Louis de Silvestre

He was court painter to King Augustus II of Poland, and director of the Royal Academy of Arts in Dresden.

Both Augustus II and his son were great admirers of Silvestre's work, and bestowed upon him, in the space of thirty years, every honour imaginable: he was appointed first court painter, then, in 1727, director of the Royal Academy of Arts; he was ennobled in 1741, as was his brother Charles-François.

Sandra Rauch

Sandra Rauch began to study communication design in 1991 in (Berlin Kommunikationsdesign) and she changed in 1995 to the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts to study painting and graphic techniques.

Via Lewandowsky

Via Lewandowsky studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts from 1982 until 1987.


Edmund Kesting

He studied until 1916 at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts before participating as a soldier in the First World War, upon returning his painting teachers were Richard Müller and Otto Gussmann and in 1919 he began to teach as a professor at the private school Der Weg.

Gottlob Friedrich Thormeyer

He started to study painting in very early years at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts under Giovanni Battista Casanova, but changed to architecture in 1791.


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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.