Prussian Academy of Arts
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- For the modern institution, see Akademie der KünsteAkademie der KünsteThe Akademie der Künste, Berlin is an arts institution in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 1696 by Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg as the Prussian Academy of Arts, an academic institution where members could meet and discuss and share ideas...
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The Prussian Academy of Arts (Preußische Akademie der Künste) was an art school
Art school
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set up in Berlin
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, Brandenburg, in 1694/1696 by prince-elector
Prince-elector
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Frederick III, in personal union Duke Frederick I of Prussia
Frederick I of Prussia
Frederick I , of the Hohenzollern dynasty, was Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia in personal union . The latter function he upgraded to royalty, becoming the first King in Prussia . From 1707 he was in personal union the sovereign prince of the Principality of Neuchâtel...
, and later king in Prussia
Kingdom of Prussia
The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918. Until the defeat of Germany in World War I, it comprised almost two-thirds of the area of the German Empire...
. It had a decisive influence on art and its development in the German-speaking world throughout its existence. It dropped 'Prussian' from its name in 1945 and was finally disbanded in 1955 after the 1954 foundation of two separate academies of art for East Berlin
East Berlin
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and West Berlin
West Berlin
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in 1954. Those two separate academies merged in 1993 to form Berlin's present-day Akademie der Künste
Akademie der Künste
The Akademie der Künste, Berlin is an arts institution in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 1696 by Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg as the Prussian Academy of Arts, an academic institution where members could meet and discuss and share ideas...
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After the Accademia dei Lincei
Accademia dei Lincei
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in Rome and the Académies Royales
Institut de France
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in Paris, the Prussian Academy of Art was the oldest institution of its kind in Europe, with a similar foundational mission to other royal academies of that time, such as the Real Academia Española
Real Academia Española
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in Madrid, the Royal Society
Royal Society
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in London, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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in Stockholm or the Russian Academy of Sciences
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in St Petersburg. For a long time it was also the German artists' society and training organisation, whilst the Academy's Senate became Prussia's arts council
Arts council
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Name changes
- 1696–1704 Academie der Mahl-, Bild- und Baukunst (Academy of the Art of Painting, Pictorial Art and Architecture)
- 1704–1790 Königlich-Preussische Akademie der Künste und mechanischen Wissenschaften (Royal Prussian Academy of Arts and Mechanical Sciences)
- 1790–1809 Königliche Akademie der bildenden Künste und mechanischen Wissenschaften zu Berlin (Royal Academy of Visual Arts and Mechanical Sciences at Berlin)
- 1809–1875 Königlich Preussische Akademie der Künste (Royal Prussian Academy of Arts)
- 1875–1882 Königlich Preussische Akademie der Künste zu Berlin (Royal Prussian Academy of Arts at Berlin)
- 1882–1918 Königliche Akademie der Künste zu Berlin (Royal Academy of Arts at Berlin)
- 1918–1926 Akademie der Künste zu Berlin (Academy of Arts at Berlin)
- 1926–1931 Preußische Akademie der Künste zu Berlin (Prussian Academy of Arts at Berlin)
- 1931–1945 Preussische Akademie der Künste (Prussian Academy of Arts at Berlin)