Royal_Danish_Academy_of_Fine_Arts

Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

Art school in Copenhagen, Denmark

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.

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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.

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

Awards

Notable alumni and faculty

The School of Visual Arts

The School of Architecture

Directors of the Royal Academy schools

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  • Gustav III's Visit to the academy 1780 (Martin)
  • Model Class at the academy c. 1824 (Lorentzen)
  • Model Class at the academy 1826 (Bendz)
  • 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)

See also

Notes and references

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    "Højbro Plads". Golden Days. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-07-21.
  2. [2]
    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. [3]
    "Nina Saemundsson" (PDF). Reykjavík Art Museum. 2008. Retrieved 2020-06-15.
  4. [4]
    "Denmark". Directory of Open Access Repositories. UK: University of Nottingham. Archived from the original on 6 February 2009. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
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