Academie Minerva
Encyclopedia
Academie Minerva is a Dutch
art academy
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The academy was founded in 1798 in Groningen as a school for signing, building and shipping knowledge. Nowadays it is a school for fine art
and design
and part of the Hanze University Groningen. It offers two main fields: Fine Art and Design and Teacher Training in Fine Art and Design.
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
art academy
Art school
Art school is a general term for any educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts, especially illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, and graphic design. The term applies to institutions with elementary, secondary, post-secondary or undergraduate, or graduate or...
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The academy was founded in 1798 in Groningen as a school for signing, building and shipping knowledge. Nowadays it is a school for fine art
Fine art
Fine art or the fine arts encompass art forms developed primarily for aesthetics and/or concept rather than practical application. Art is often a synonym for fine art, as employed in the term "art gallery"....
and design
Design
Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
and part of the Hanze University Groningen. It offers two main fields: Fine Art and Design and Teacher Training in Fine Art and Design.
Alumni
- Jan AltinkJan AltinkJan Altink was a Dutch expressionist painter. Altink was a cofounder of the artists' association and movement De Ploeg , which he named in reference to breaking new ground...
(1885–1971), painter - Wim CrouwelWim CrouwelWillem Hendrik Crouwel is a Dutch graphic designer and typographer.Between 1947 and 1949 he studied Fine Arts at Academie Minerva in Groningen, The Netherlands...
(1928), graphic designer - Otto Eerelman (1839–1926), painter
- Henk Helmantel (1945), painter
- Jozef IsraëlsJozef IsraëlsJozef Israëls was a Dutch painter, and "the most respected Dutch artist of the second half of the nineteenth century".-Youth:...
(1824–1911), painter - Wladimir de Vries (1917–2001), sculptor