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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.
Entrance to the former Prussian Academy of Sciences on Unter Den Linden 8. Today it houses the Berlin State Library.. The Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences (German: Königlich-Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften) was an academy established in Berlin, Germany on 11 July 1700, four years after the Prussian Academy of Arts, or "Arts Academy," to which "Berlin Academy" may also refer.
Prussian Academy may refer to: . Prussian Academy of Arts (Preußische Akademie der Künste), an art school set up in Berlin in 1694/1696, disbanded in 1955 after the 1954 foundation of two separate academies of art for East Berlin and West Berlin in 1954, which merged in 1993 to form the present-day Academy of Arts, Berlin (Akademie der Künste, Berlin)
Graduating from the Staff College was a prerequisite for appointment to the Prussian General Staff (later the German General Staff). Carl von Clausewitz enrolled as one of its first students in 1801 (before it was renamed), while other attendees included Field Marshals von Steinmetz, von Moltke, and von Blumenthal in the 1820s and 1830s.
With the collapse of the German monarchy in 1918, the Royal Academy was renamed the Prussian Academy of Sciences (German: Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften). During this period it rose to international fame [11] and its members included top academics in their fields such as Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Hermann Diels, and Ernst Bloch. [10]
Between 1790 and 1793, Buchhorn was at the Prussian Academy of Arts.In addition to aquatint and lithography, Buchhorn adopted from his teachers a Crayon style.. In 1797, he got a job as a draftsman and engraver in Dessau, where he worked until 1803.
He entered the Prussian Academy of Arts in 1819, where he studied with Karl Wilhelm Wach. In 1826 he received the Academy Award for a portrait of the New Palace in Potsdam and used the money to travel to Italy in 1827, where he was one of the founders of the Roman Kunstverein. In this period, he lived in Rome, Florence, and Ascoli.
The improvements helped Prussia to victories over Denmark in the 1864 Second Schleswig War, Austria in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, and France in the Franco-Prussian War. The wars culminated in unification of Germany under Prussia's leadership and the exclusion of Austria from the new German Empire.