Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
| Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademis Skoler for Arkitektur, Design og Konservering - Arkitektskolen | |
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| Type | Public university |
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| Established | 1754 |
| Rector | Sanne Kofod Olsen |
| Students | 2000 (2015) |
| Location | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Campus | Copenhagen |
| Website | The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation |
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Danish: Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi) has provided education in the arts for more than 250 years, playing its part in the development of the art of Denmark.
History
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.
The academy is larger and better funded than the Jutland Art Academy and Funen Art Academy, which offer similar programs.
It teaches and conducts research on the subjects of painting, sculpting, architecture, graphics, photography, and video and in the history of those subjects.
The academy is under the administration of the Danish Ministry of Culture.
The academy’s School of Architecture offers education in the fields of architectural design and restoration, urban and landscape planning and industrial, graphic and furniture design. The school has nine study departments, four research institutes and six affiliated research centres. The undergraduate course, leading to the Bachelor of Architecture diploma, lasts three years while the Master of Arts in Architecture is a two-year graduate course. Notable Danish architect Arne Jacobsen, a major influence behind the Architectural Functionalism, studied at the Academy, as did Bjarke Ingels, the rising star in the world of architecture and design. In 2011, the Wall Street Journal named Ingels the Innovator of the Year for architecture.
Institutions
- Kunstakademiets Billedkunstskoler, The School of Visual Arts
- Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole, The School of Architecture
- Kunstakademiets Designskole, The School of Design
- Kunstakademiets Konservatorskole, The School of Conservation
- Det Kongelige Akademi for de Skønne Kunster
Awards
- C. F. Hansen Medal
- Thorvaldsen Medal
- Eckersberg Medal
- Thorvald Bindesbøll Medal
- N. L. Høyen Medal
Notable alumni and faculty
The School of Visual Arts
- C. C. A. Christensen
- Olafur Eliasson
- Lili Elbe
- Oluf Hartmann
- Jeppe Hein
- Georg Jensen
- Karl Kvaran
- Asger Jorn
- Caspar David Friedrich
The School of Architecture
- Jan Gehl
- Birgit Cold
- Knud Holscher
- Bjarke Ingels
- Victor Isbrand
- Arne Jacobsen
- Finn Juhl
- Kaare Klint
- Henning Larsen
- Alex Popov
- Steen Eiler Rasmussen
- Verner Panton
- Johann Otto von Spreckelsen
- Magnus Steendorff
- Lene Tranberg
- Jørn Utzon
- Kristian von Bengtson
Directors of the Royal Academy schools
Gallery
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Gustav III's Visit to the academy 1780 (Martin)
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Model Class at the academy circa 1824 (Lorentzen)
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Model Class at the academy 1826 (Bendz)
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Plaster cast collection 1843 (Exner)
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Thorvaldsen's studio at Charlottenborg, painted by Johan Vilhelm Gertner while he was still a student at the academy (1836)
See also
Notes and references
- ↑ "Højbro Plads". Golden Days. Retrieved 2010-07-21.
External links
- Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi
- Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole
- Det Jyske Kunstakademi
- Det Fynske Kunstakademi
- Top 10' World's best Architecture Universities / Schools