Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

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The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation
Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademis Skoler for Arkitektur, Design og Konservering - Arkitektskolen
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Logo.jpg
TypePublic university
Established1754
RectorLars Bent
Students200 (2022)
Location
Copenhagen
,
Denmark
CampusCopenhagen
WebsiteSchools of Visual Arts of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Danish: Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi - Billedkunst Skolerne) has provided education in the arts for more than 250 years, playing its part in the development of the art of Denmark.

History[edit]

The Royal Danish Academy of Portraiture, Sculpture, and Architecture in Copenhagen was inaugurated on 31 March 1754, and given as a gift to the King Frederik V on his 31st birthday.

Its name was changed to the Royal Danish Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in 1771. At the same event, Johann Friedrich Struensee introduced a new scheme in the academy to encourage artisan apprentices to take supplementary classes in drawing so as to develop the notion of "good taste". The building boom resulting from the Great Fire of 1795 greatly profited from this initiative.[1]

In 1814 the name was changed again, this time to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. It is still situated in its original building, the Charlottenborg Palace, located on the Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen. The School of Architecture has been situated in former naval buildings on Holmen since 1996.

It teaches and conducts research on the subjects of painting, sculpting, architecture, graphics, photography, performance, and video, as well as in the history of those subjects.

The academy is under the administration of the Danish Ministry of Culture.

The School of Architecture, Design and Conservation is separated from Schools of Visual arts and therefore is a different institution(KADK)

Institutions[edit]

Awards[edit]

Notable alumni and faculty[edit]

The School of Visual Arts

The School of Architecture

Directors of the Royal Academy schools[edit]

From To Director
1754 1754 Nicolai Eigtved
1754 1771 Jacques-François-Joseph Saly
1771 1772 Carl Gustaf Pilo
1772 1777 Johannes Wiedewelt
1777 1779 Caspar Frederik Harsdorff
1780 1789 Johannes Wiedewelt
1789 1791 Nicolai Abildgaard
1791 1792 Andreas Weidenhaupt
1793 1795 Johannes Wiedewelt
1796 1797 Jens Juel
1797 1799 Peter Meyn
1799 1801 Jens Juel
1801 1809 Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard
1809 1810 Christian August Lorentzen
1811 1818 Christian Frederik Hansen
1818 1821 Nicolai Dajon
1821 1827 Christian Frederik Hansen
1827 1829 Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
1830 1833 Christian Frederik Hansen
1833 1844 Bertel Thorvaldsen
1844 1849 Jørgen Hansen Koch
1850 1853 Herman Wilhelm Bissen
1854 1857 Wilhelm Marstrand
1857 1863 Jens Adolf Jerichau
1863 1873 Wilhelm Marstrand
1873 1890 Ferdinand Meldahl
1890 1892 Otto Bache
1893 1896 Theobald Stein
1896 1899 Otto Bache
1899 1902 Ferdinand Meldahl
1902 1905 Vilhelm Bissen
1905 1906 Otto Bache
1906 1908 Vilhelm Bissen
1908 1911 Martin Nyrop
1911 1914 Viggo Johansen
1914 1917 Carl Aarsleff
1917 1920 Hermann Baagøe Storck
1920 1825 Joakim Skovgaard
1925 1925 Anton Rosen
1925 1928 Einar Utzon-Frank
1928 1931 Poul Holsøe
1931 1934 Aksel Jørgensen
1934 1937 Einar Utzon-Frank
1937 1940 Poul Holsøe
1940 1943 Sigurd Wandel
1943 1946 Johannes Bjerg
1946 1949 Edvard Thomsen
1949 1952 Kræsten Iversen
1952 1955 Johannes Bjerg
1955 1956 Svend Møller
1956 1965 Palle Suenson
1965 1974 Tobias Faber
1974 Individual directors for the schools

Gallery[edit]

  • Gustav III's Visit to the academy 1780 (Martin)

    Gustav III's Visit to the academy 1780 (Martin)

  • Model Class at the academy circa 1824 (Lorentzen)

    Model Class at the academy circa 1824 (Lorentzen)

  • Model Class at the academy 1826 (Bendz)

    Model Class at the academy 1826 (Bendz)

  • Plaster cast collection 1843 (Exner)

    Plaster cast collection 1843 (Exner)

  • Thorvaldsen's studio at Charlottenborg, painted by Johan Vilhelm Gertner while he was still a student at the academy (1836)

    Thorvaldsen's studio at Charlottenborg, painted by Johan Vilhelm Gertner while he was still a student at the academy (1836)

See also[edit]

Notes and references[edit]

  1. ^ "Højbro Plads". Golden Days. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-07-21.
  2. ^ a b Koerner, Joseph Leo. 1990. Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape. Yale University Press. New Haven, Connecticut. 256 pp. (pages 80–81) ISBN 0-300-04926-9
  3. ^ "Nina Saemundsson" (PDF). Reykjavík Art Museum. 2008. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
  4. ^ "Denmark". Directory of Open Access Repositories. UK: University of Nottingham. Archived from the original on 6 February 2009. Retrieved 11 March 2018.

External links[edit]

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