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4 unusual facts about Prussian Academy of Arts


Academy of Berlin

Prussian Academy of Arts, an art school set up in Berlin, Brandenburg, in 1694/1696 by prince-elector Frederick III and disbanded in 1955 after the foundation of two separate academies of art for East and West Berlin

East Berlin Academy

Prussian Academy of Arts, an art school which became the German Academy of Arts in East Berlin and then was merged into the Academy of Arts

Prussian Academy of Arts

After the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome and the Académies Royales in Paris, the Prussian Academy of Art was the oldest institution of its kind in Europe, with a similar foundational mission to other royal academies of that time, such as the Real Academia Española in Madrid, the Royal Society in London, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm or the Russian Academy of Sciences in St Petersburg.

Wim Naudé

Wim Naudé is a descendant of Philippe Naudé "the Elder" (1654-1729) and Philippe Naudé "the Younger" (1684-1745), Professors of Mathematics at the Prussian Academy of Arts (the Berlin Academy).


Rudolf Schweitzer-Cumpăna

Born in Pitești into an ethnic German family, he finished high school in his native town before attending the Royal Academy of Arts at Berlin from 1904 to 1909, studying under Erich Hancke, Arthur Kampf and Anton von Werner.


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