Städelschule

Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule
Entrance to the school
Former name
  • Städelschule Frankfurt am Main
  • Städelschule: Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste
Established1817; 207 years ago (1817)
FounderStädel Institute
RectorBarbara Clausen
Studentsabout 150
Location
Frankfurt am Main
,
Hesse
,
Germany

50°06′08″N 08°40′30″E / 50.10222°N 8.67500°E / 50.10222; 8.67500
LanguageEnglish
Websitestaedelschule.de
The school

The Städelschule[a], full name Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule,[1] is a tertiary school of art in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It accepts about 20 students each year from around 500 applicants, and has a total of approximately 150 students of visual arts; until 2020 there were also about 50 students of architecture. About 75% of the students are not from Germany, and courses are taught in English.[2]

History

The Städelschule was established by the Städel Institute in 1817, following an endowment left by Johann Friedrich Städel (1728–1816), a wealthy banker and patron of the arts. In a deed dated 15 March 1815 he left his house, his art collection and his fortune to establish a museum – now the Städel Museum – and to pay for the training in art and architecture of deserving students, in the hope that they might be "...educated to become valuable and useful citizens and artists".[3]: 322 [4]

Städel died on 2 December 1816, and from 1817 scholarships were given out. It was Städel's intention only that funds should be provided to pay for students' tuition at other schools, however the institute employed its first teacher, Johann Andreas Benjamin Reges (1772–1847), from 1817. He taught students in his house, and, from Summer 1817, at an orphanage; nineteen students were taught in the first year. In 1829 it was decided that the Städel Institute of Art would be an art education institute and the teachers Philipp Veit (1793–1877, painting), Friedrich Maximilian Hessemer (1800–1860, architecture) and Johann Nepomuk Zwerger [de] (1796–1868, sculpture) were appointed. Around 1930, the Frankfurt Kunstgewerbeschule (established 1878) was incorporated into the Städelschule.[5][6]

The school was later taken over by the city of Frankfurt. Until the end of 2018 it was the only tertiary institution in Germany to be funded by a city rather than state administration; in 2007 it received €3.8 million from the city.[3]: 322  From 1 January 2019 the school became an educational institution of the state of Hesse, and is funded by that state.[7]

In 1970, Günther Bock [de] was appointed Professor and Head of the Architecture Class.[8] The Master of Advanced Design evolved from the postgraduate program "Conceptual Design" established by Bock;[9][10] it was later led by Peter Cook, Enric Miralles, Ben van Berkel[11] and Johan Bettum.[12] It was not funded by the state of Hesse, and was closed down in October 2020 for reasons associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.[13]

Teaching staff

Many noted artists teach or have taught at the school. Max Beckmann taught at the Städelschule during the Weimar Republic, but was classed as a "degenerate artist" and dismissed from his position under the Nazi régime; his work was shown in the Degenerate Art Exhibition of 1937.[14]

In 2016 Willem de Rooij, Peter Fischli, Douglas Gordon, Michael Krebber [de] and Tobias Rehberger were among the teaching staff.[2] Rectors in the last fifty years have included Raimer Jochims [de], Peter Kubelka, Kasper König, Daniel Birnbaum, Nikolaus Hirsch, Philippe Pirotte [de] and Yasmil Raymond.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ German pronunciation: [ˈʃtɛːdl̩ʃuːlə]

References

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  1. ^ Impressum. Frankfurt: Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule. Accessed September 2024.
  2. ^ a b Michael Hierholzer, Edith C. Watts (2016). Städelschule Frankfurt: Beyond the Genre Boundaries. Goethe-Institut. Archived 8 March 2023.
  3. ^ a b Dietrich Koska (2007). Good Neighbors. In: Belzer, Heike; Birnbaum, Daniel (2007). Kunst lehren (in German). Köln: König. ISBN 978-3-86560-339-5.
  4. ^ Corina Meyer (2017). The origins of the Städelschule, extract translated from: Corina Meyer, Bernhard Graf, Bénédicte Savoy (2013). Die Geburt des bürgerlichen Kunstmuseums: Johann Friedrich Städel und sein Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main. Berlin: G+H Verlag. ISBN 9783940939265. Accessed May 2024.
  5. ^ a b History. Frankfurt: Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule. Archived January 23 March 2023.
  6. ^ Hubert Salden (1995). Die Städelschule Frankfurt am Main von 1817 bis 1995 (in German). Mainz: Schmidt. ISBN 9783874393331
  7. ^ Pitt v. Bebenburg (5 January 2019). Stadt Frankfurt gibt die Städelschule ab (in German). Frankfurter Rundschau. Accessed December 2023.
  8. ^ Bock, Günter (2000). Die Geschichte der Architekturklasse der Städelschule (in German). Darmstadt: Häusser. ISBN 978-3-89552-070-9.
  9. ^ "KulturPortal Frankfurt: Frankfurter Preise". KulturPortal Frankfurt (in German). Retrieved 26 September 2024.
  10. ^ "TALKS & FEIER ZUR ERINNERUNG AN GÜNTER BOCK". DAM Online (in German). 29 June 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
  11. ^ "Ben van Berkel an Städelschule in Frankfurt berufen". BauNetz (in German). 13 December 2001. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
  12. ^ [s.n.] (2017). Johan Bettum: Grammar of the Ineffable. The Subject. Frankfurt: Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule. Accessed September 2024.
  13. ^ [s.n.] (9 October 2020). Städelschule setzt Architekturklasse aus (in German). BauNetz. Accessed December 2023.
  14. ^ Max Beckmann. Galerie St. Etienne. Archived 22 November 2009.