Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe

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The hallmark of studying at the Academy is that both students of the Fine Arts and students following a teacher training course in Art Teaching are taught in the same class-groups. The some 300 students enrolled at the Academy learn through creating their own art works, discussing the results with their instructors and openly seeking an exchange of ideas with their fellow students. Underlying t...his form of teaching is the belief that art can be successfully taught and studied only through the process of its conception and creation. Alongside these classes, the respective courses include wide-ranging studies in Art History and Art Theory and involvement in workshop activities. Fundamentally committed to the autonomy of art, the Academy consciously fosters forms of teaching that emerge from artistic questions and issue in artistic responses.
The State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe sees itself as a place where established artistic disciplines are put to the test and made to prove their relevance for the artist of today in the face of new developments. At the same time, however, the latest forms of expression are measured against the accomplishments of older traditions. This form of productive dialogue with media and genres is in keeping with our ideal of an art community in which both students and instructors are actively involved.
Our Academy owes its considerable reputation in no small part to its consciously chosen focus on the Fine Arts –painting, sculpture and drawing – which it openly champions as an ongoing creative process in constant dialogue with the ever-changing media. This unrelenting attention to central areas of artistic expression has not only proved its worth in the past and repeatedly led to border-transcending extensions of the artistic spectrum, but it also confirms the Academy’s current position as one of the foremost art colleges in all of Germany.
The foci of teaching and training at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe lie in the Fine Arts and in the training of future art teachers for work in German Gymnasien (grammar schools).
With its some 300 students, the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts is one of the smaller, highly specialized art schools in Germany. Its wide array of spacious studios and workshops offer students ideal working conditions. These facilities are spread across three sites – the Main Building with its front and rear buildings, the Sculptors’ Garden and the baroque-style Schloss Scheibenhardt. The administrative offices and Library are housed in a Gründerzeit-style mansion in the immediate vicinity of the Main Building.
In addition to the above-mentioned teaching foci, the Academy also offers courses in Art Appreciation and Art History, Aesthetics, Art Teaching and Educational Sciences. The praxis-oriented courses of study are complemented by guest lectures and seminars. Our Library comprising some 50,000 volumes and with regular holdings of key publications and art journals is open from Monday to Friday.
The Academy maintains an extensive Library to support the work of the four professorships in Art History, Educational Science, Art Teaching and Art Theory. The Library functions as a reference library for non-Academy users and as a lending library for Academy students. The holdings include almost 50,000 publications covering a wide range of art-related topics and some 30 specialist journals. Here you can find lavishly produced illustrated volumes from the past alongside the most recent exhibition catalogues. The holdings are updated on an ongoing basis so as to meet the needs of students and staff alike. Two special strengths of the Library are in Contemporary Art and art of the 21st Century.
The State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe was founded in 1854 as the Großherzogliche Kunstschule (Grand-Ducal School of Art) by the then Prince Regent, Friedrich I of Baden, who later became Grand Duke. In 2004 the Academy was thus able to celebrate its 150th anniversary.
Over the years, the Academy has gone under several names: in 1920 it was re-named the Badische Landeskunstschule (Baden Regional School of Art) and after the Second World War it re-opened as the Badische Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Baden Academy of Fine Arts), assuming its current name, the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe, in 1961.
Throughout the 20th century, the Academy embodied important movements in modern and postmodern art and was among the foremost influences on them. As early as the mid-19th century it was the Karlsruhe Art School which enabled landscape painting to emerge as the prime model for artistic production as regards immediacy and authenticity. At the outset of the 20th century, the Academy provided outstanding representatives of Jugendstil, as it did above all, in the 1920s for realism: what began as Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) and rose to become an international style had prominent exponents among the Academy’s professors.
German post-war art also, with its dual need for compensation and the re-establishing of ties with the vilified modernist movement, had its origins not least at the Karlsruhe Academy. In the 1970s and 1980s, Karlsruhe had the reputation of being par excellence a source of the resurgence in painting which has since become known as the Hunger nach Bildern (Hunger for Images). Thanks to the continued and ongoing appointment of outstanding artist figures from home and abroad representing both post-conceptual and cross-media positions and the very latest approaches in painting and drawing, the Academy has been able to maintain its excellent reputation and competitive rank, both in Germany and internationally, right up to the present day.