The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts () has provided education in the arts for more than 250 years, playing its part in the development of the

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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 Count, Lensgreve Johann Friedrich Struensee (5 August 1737 – 28 April 1772) was a German-Danish physician, philosopher and statesman. He became royal physician to the mentally ill King Christian VII of Denmark and a minister in the Danish gov ...

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. 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 Charlottenborg Palace () is a large town mansion located on the corner of Kongens Nytorv and Nyhavn in Copenhagen, Denmark. Originally built as a residence for Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, it has served as the base of the Royal Danish Academy ...

, located on the

Kongens Nytorv Kongens Nytorv (literal translation, lit. "The King's New Square") is a town square, public square in Copenhagen, Denmark, centrally located at the end of the Pedestrian zone, pedestrian street Strøget. The largest square of the city, it was l ...

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. The School of Architecture has been situated in former naval buildings on Holmen since 1996. It teaches and conducts research on the subjects of

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, and

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, as well as in the history of those subjects. The academy is under the administration of the

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. The School of Architecture, Design and Conservation is separated from Schools of Visual arts and therefore is a different institution(KADK)

Institutions

* Kunstakademiets Billedkunstskoler, The School of Visual Arts *

Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole Royal Danish Academy – Architecture ( Danish: ''Det Kongelige Akademi – Arkitektur'') is an institution of higher education in Copenhagen, Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and ...

, The School of Architecture * Kunstakademiets Designskole, The School of Design * Kunstakademiets Konservatorskole, The School of Conservation * Det Kongelige Akademi for de Skønne Kunster

Awards

* C. F. Hansen Medal * Thorvaldsen Medal *

Eckersberg Medal The Eckersberg Medal (originally the ''Akademiets Aarsmedaille'' or Annual Academy Medal) is an annual award of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. It is named after Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, known as the father of Danish painting. The ...

* Thorvald Bindesbøll Medal * N. L. Høyen Medal

Notable alumni and faculty

The School of Visual Arts * Carl Bloch * C. C. A. Christensen * Lili Elbe *

Olafur Eliasson Olafur Eliasson (; born 5 February 1967) is an Icelandic–Danish artist known for sculptured and large-scaled installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer's experience. In 1995, ...

* Andreas Emenius *

Caspar David Friedrich Caspar David Friedrich (; 5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a German Romanticism, German Romantic Landscape painting, landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti ...

(1794–1798)Koerner, Joseph Leo. 1990. ''Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape.'' Yale University Press. New Haven, Connecticut. 256 pp. (pages 80–81) * Oluf Hartmann * Jeppe Hein * Georg Jensen *

Asger Jorn Asger Oluf Jorn (3 March 1914 – 1 May 1973) was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author. He was a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA and the Situationist International. The largest collection of Jorn's works� ...

* Jane Jin Kaisen *

Karl Kvaran Karl Kvaran (November 17, 1924 – August 9, 1989) was an Icelandic painter and draughtsman. He is considered one of the principal exponents of the geometric abstractionist school of painting in Iceland in the early sixties. Education K ...

* Philipp Otto Runge (1799–1801) * Heidi Maria Schwarck *

Nína Sæmundsson Nína Sæmundsson or Nina Saemundsson (born Jónína Sæmundsdóttir; 22 August 1892 – 29 January 1965) was an Icelandic artist, known for her sculptures and paintings. She was active from the 1920s until the 1960s in Los Angeles, New York Cit ...

* Per Johan Svendsen *

Bertel Thorvaldsen Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen (; sometimes given as Thorwaldsen; 19 November 1770 – 24 March 1844) was a Danes, Danish-Icelanders, Icelandic Sculpture, sculptor and medallist, medalist of international fame, who spent most of his life (1797–183 ...

The School of Architecture *

Jan Gehl Jan Gehl Hon. FAIA (born 17 September 1936, Copenhagen) is a Danish architect and urban design consultant based in Copenhagen whose career has focused on improving the quality of urban life by re-orienting city design towards the pedestrian an ...

* Birgit Cold * Knud Holscher *

Bjarke Ingels Bjarke Bundgaard Ingels (; born 2 October 1974) is a Danish architect, founder and creative partner of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). In Denmark, Ingels became well known after designing two housing complexes in Ørestad: VM Houses and Mountain Dwe ...

* Victor Isbrand *

Arne Jacobsen Arne Emil Jacobsen, Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Architects, Hon. FAIA (; 11 February 1902 – 24 March 1971) was a Danish architect and furniture designer. He is remembered for his contribution to functionalism (architec ...

Finn Juhl Finn Juhl (30 January 1912 – 17 May 1989) was a Denmark, Danish architect, interior design, interior and industrial designer, most known for his furniture design. He was one of the leading figures in the creation of Danish design in the 1940s an ...

Kaare Klint Kaare Klint (15 December 1888 – 28 March 1954) was a Danish architect and furniture designer, known as the father of modern Danish furniture design. His style was epitomized by clean, pure lines, use of the best materials of his time and ...

* Henning Larsen * Alex Popov * Steen Eiler Rasmussen * Verner Panton * Johann Otto von Spreckelsen * Magnus Steendorff * Lene Tranberg * Jørn Utzon * Kristian von Bengtson *

Martin Nyrop Martin Nyrop (11 November 1849 18 May 1921) was a Danish architect. Early life and education Nyrop was born on 11 November 1849 at Holmsland Municipality, Holmsland, Ringkøbing, the son of parish priest Christopher Nyrop (1805–1879) and Helen ...

Directors of the Royal Academy schools

Gallery

Image:Gustav III's Visit to the Konstakadamien 1780.jpg, Gustav III's Visit to the academy 1780 (Martin) Image:Model Class at the Copenhagen Academy.jpg, Model Class at the academy (Lorentzen) Image:Wilhelm Bendz - The Life Class at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, 1826.jpg, Model Class at the academy 1826 (Bendz) Image:Abgusssammlung.jpg, Plaster cast collection 1843 (Exner) Image:Thorvaldsens atelier på Charlottenborg (Johan Vilhelm Gertner).jpg, Thorvaldsen's studio at Charlottenborg, painted by Johan Vilhelm Gertner while he was still a student at the academy (1836)

Notes and references

External links

Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi

Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole

Det Jyske Kunstakademi

Det Fynske Kunstakademi
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