Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Danish: Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi) has provided a practice-oriented complement to the scholarly investigation of the arts carried out at Danish universities for more than 250 years, playing a crucial part in the development of the distinctive tradition 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. A 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 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 the oldest and most renowned place of higher learning in Denmark where art and research within the theoretical and technological areas are bound together. It is significantly larger and better funded than the Jutland Art Academy and Funen Art Academy, which offer similar programs.

The main objective is to teach and conduct research within the creative arts (painting, sculpting, architecture, graphics, photography, video, etc.) and in the theoretical and cultural historical disciplines.

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts is under the administration of the Danish Ministry of Culture.

Institutions

• Kunstakademis Billedkunstskoler, The School of Visual Arts
• Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole, The School of Architecture
• 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

• Olafur Eliasson
• Jeppe Hein
• Karl Kvaran
• Asger Jorn

The School of Architecture

• Jan Gehl
• Knud Holscher
• Bjarke Ingels
• 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

List of directors of the Royal Academy Schools

From	To	Director
1751	1754	Nicolai Eigtved
1754	1771	Jacques-François-Joseph Saly
1771	1772	Carl Gustaf Pilo
1772	1777	Johannes Wiedewelt
1777	1779	Caspar Frederik Harsdorff
1780	1789	Johannes Wiedewelt
1789	1791	Nicolai Abildgaard
1791	1792	Andreas Weidenhaupt
1793	1795	Johannes Wiedewelt
1796	1797	Jens Juel
1797	1799	Peter Meyn
1799	1801	Jens Juel
1801	1809	Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard
1809	1810	Christian August Lorentzen
1811	1818	Christian Frederik Hansen
1818	1821	Nicolai Dajon
1821	1827	Christian Frederik Hansen
1827	1829	Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
1830	1833	Christian Frederik Hansen
1833	1844	Bertel Thorvaldsen
1844	1849	Jørgen Hansen Koch
1850	1853	Herman Wilhelm Bissen
1854	1857	Wilhelm Marstrand
1857	1863	Jens Adolf Jerichau
1863	1873	Wilhelm Marstrand
1873	1890	Ferdinand Meldahl
1890	1892	Otto Bache
1893	1896	Theobald Stein
1896	1899	Otto Bache
1899	1902	Ferdinand Meldahl
1902	1905	Vilhelm Bissen
1905	1806	Otto Bache
1906	1908	Vilhelm Bissen
1908	1911	Martin Nyrop
1911	1914	Viggo Johansen
1914	1917	Carl Aarsleff
1917	1920	Hermann Baagøe Storck
1920	1825	Joakim Skovgaard
1925	1925	Anton Rosen
1925	1928	Einar Utzon-Frank
1828	1831	Poul Holsøe
1931	1934	Aksel Jørgensen
1934	1937	Einar Utzon-Frank
1937	1940	Poul Holsøe
1940	1943	Sigurd Wandel
1843	1846	Johannes Bjerg
1946	1949	Edvard Thomsen
1949	1952	Kræsten Iversen
1952	1965	?
1965	1974	Tobias Faber
1974		Individual directors for the schools

Gallery

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  Gustav III's Visit to the Academy 1780 (Martin)

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  Model Class at the Academy ca. 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

• Architecture of Denmark
• Arne Ranslet

References

1. ^ "Højbro Plads". Golden Days. http://www.guldalder.dk/cc_place5. Retrieved 2010-07-21. 

External links

• Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi
• Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole
• Det Jyske Kunstakademi
• Det Fynske Kunstakademi

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