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The Kunstgewerbemuseum, or Museum of Decorative Arts, is an internationally important museum of the decorative arts in Berlin, Germany, part of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin State Museums).
Musée des Arts décoratifs, Strasbourg, France; Musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs, Lyon, France; Latvian Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Riga, Latvia; Museum of Decorative Arts, Berlin (Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin), Germany; Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague (Uměleckoprůmyslové museum v Praze), Czech Republic
Originally from Germany, she studied art history at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. After completing her thesis in 1999, she was appointed curator at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld in Germany, where she organized several exhibitions. She was appointed Curator of Modern Art at the Centre Pompidou in 2005. [2]
The purchasing activities of the Electors were crowned by the acquisition of Raphael's Sistine Madonna in 1754. [1] The Dresden painting gallery became not only one of the most famous Old Masters collections in Northern European, but also a prototype of the modern museums that would emerge in the late 18th century.
The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf is the academy of fine arts of the state of North Rhine Westphalia at the city of Düsseldorf, Germany.Notable artists who studied or taught at the academy include Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Magdalena Jetelová, Gotthard Graubner, Nam June Paik, Nan Hoover, Katharina Fritsch, Tony Cragg, Ruth Rogers-Altmann, Sigmar Polke, Anselm Kiefer, Rosemarie Trockel ...
Arnim Palace [], the Prussian Academy of Arts building on Pariser Platz in Berlin, c. 1903. The Prussian Academy of Arts (German: Preußische Akademie der Künste) was a state arts academy first established in Berlin, Brandenburg, in 1694/1696 by prince-elector Frederick III, in personal union Duke Frederick I of Prussia, and later king in Prussia.
[1] The academy's predecessor organization was founded in 1696 by Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg as the Brandenburg Academy of Arts, an academic institution in which members could meet and discuss and share ideas. The current Academy was founded on 1 October 1993 as the re-unification of formerly separate East and West Berlin academies.
In 1910, William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, in cooperation with Hans Olde (Director of the Art School), Adolf Brütt (Director of the Sculpture School) and Henry van de Velde (Director of the School of Arts & Crafts), joined the three schools to create the Großherzoglich Sächsische Hochschule für Bildende Kunst ("Grand-Ducal Saxon School for Fine Arts"), headed by Fritz ...