Berlin University of the Arts

The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; also known in English as the Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the second largest art school in Europe. It is a public art and design school, and one of the four research universities in the city.

The university is known for being one of the biggest and most diversified universities of the arts worldwide. It has four colleges specialising in fine arts, architecture, media and design, music and the performing arts with around 3,500 students. Thus the UdK is one of only three universities in Germany to unite the faculties of art and music in one institution. The teaching offered at the four colleges encompasses the full spectrum of the arts and related academic studies in more than 40 courses. Having the right to confer doctorates and post-doctoral qualifications, Berlin University of the Arts is also one of Germany's few art colleges with full university status.

Outstanding professors and students at all its colleges, as well as the steady development of teaching concepts, have publicly defined the university as a high standard of artistic and art-theoretical education. Almost all the study courses at Berlin University of the Arts are part of a centuries-old tradition. Thus Berlin University of the Arts gives its students the opportunity to investigate and experiment with other art forms in order to recognise and extend the boundaries of their own discipline, at an early stage of rigorously selected artists and within the protected sphere of a study course.

Within the field of visual arts, the university is known for the intense competition that involves the selection of its students, and the growth of applicants worldwide has increased during the years due to Berlin's important current role in cultural innovation worldwide. In the same way, the University of the Arts is publicly recognized for being on the cutting edge in the areas of Visual Arts, Fashion Design, Industrial Design, and Experimental Design.

History

The university's origins date back to the foundation of Academie der Mal-, Bild- und Baukunst (Academy of the Art of Painting, Pictorial Art, and Architecture), the later Prussian Academy of Arts, at the behest of Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg. The two predecessor organisations were Königliche Akademische Hochschule für ausübende Tonkunst (Royal Academy of Musical Performing Art) established in 1869 under Joseph Joachim, which also had adopted the tradition of the famous Stern Conservatory, and the Berlin State School of Fine Arts founded in 1875.

In 1975, both art schools merged under the name Hochschule der Künste Berlin, HdK. The organization received the title of a university on 1 November 2001.

Exchange program The exchange program with UDK is a direct enrollment program offered during the fall, spring, and academic year to students interested in the arts and with four semesters of German language study. Each academic year the school receives 100 exchange students on the basis of institutional agreements. Students participating in the exchange are required to subsidize their own accommodations with little help from the school.

Art fair Annually, the university opens its doors to the public in its four colleges (UdK Rundgang), offering one of the most important art fairs in Berlin due to new proposals that highlight its young artists.

Notable alumni

Claudio Arrau (1903-1991), Chilean and American pianist Claudia Barainsky, soprano Else Berg (1877–1942), German-born Dutch painter Esther Berlin-Joel (1895–1972), German-born Israeli painter and graphic designer F. W. Bernstein (1938–2018), poet, cartoonist, satirist and academic Norbert Bisky, painter Jacob Brandenburg (1899-1981), Polish-born Israeli sculptor Guy Braunstein (born 1971), Israeli-American composer, conductor, and classical violinist Antonia Brico, pianist and conductor Kai Bumann (1961–2022), conductor Michael Chapman, artist Antonio Piedade da Cruz, (1895–1982) Indian painter and sculptorJ. Clement Vaz, "Profiles of Eminent Goans Past and Present", Concept Publishing Company, 1997, Daniela Comani, painter Alexander Davidis, television director Gunter Demnig (born 1947), artist Marie Fillunger, opera singer Caroline Fischer, pianist Bruno Flierl, architect and city planner Eduard Franck Regina Frank, textile artist Catherine Gayer, coloratura soprano Ria Ginster, soprano Leopold Godowsky, pianist Berthold Goldschmidt (1903–1996), composer Günter Grass, sculptor, 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature Ilse Häfner-Mode (1902-1973), artist Burkhard Held, painter Carla Henius, mezzo-soprano Philip A. Herfort, violinist, orchestra leader Arnulf Herrmann, composer Li Hua, artist Hanoch Jacoby (1909–1990), Israeli composer and viola player Ali Kaaf, artist David Kaplan (born 1983), American piano soloist and chamber musician Leo Kestenberg (1882–1962). German-Israeli classical pianist, music educator, and cultural politician Lilli Kuschel, artist, filmmakercatalogue Lilli Kuschel: Cool Worlds, Revolver Publishing, Berlin 2013 Ingo Kühl, painter, sculptor and architect Christian Leden, ethno-musicologist; composer Kim Yusob, South-Korean painter Otto Kinkeldey, (1878–1966), musicologist, academic music library pioneer Otto Klemperer, conductor Günter Kochan (1930–2009), composer Uwe Kröger, actor, singer Felicitas Kukuck, composer Josephine Meckseper, artist Una H. Moehrke, painter Moritz Moszkowski, German-Polish pianist, composer Isabel Mundry, composer Adolfo Odnoposoff, cellist Karl Oppermann, painter Rudolph Polk, violinist Enno Poppe, composer Hildegard Quiel, composer Max Raabe artist Hermann Rosendorff, conductor, composer SEO, artist Herbert Schachtschneider (1919–2008), operatic tenor Gabriel and Maxim Shamir, (previously Scheftelovich), early 1930s, Latvian-Israeli graphic artists Christine Schäfer, soprano Karl Ulrich Schnabel (1909–2001), Austrian pianist Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher, and writer Martina Schumacher, painter Maya Shenfeld, Jerusalem-born composer and musician Paul Gutama Soegijo, composer and musician Kathrin Sonntag, artist Thomas Spiegelhalter, academic Agnes Stavenhagen, soprano Bertha Tideman-Wijers, composer Sarah Traubel, soprano Richard Aaker Trythall, pianist, composer Agnes Tschetschulin, composer, violinist Christa Frieda Vogel, photographer Jorinde Voigt, artist Ignatz Waghalter, composer, conductor Bruno Walter (born Bruno Schlesinger), conductor Kurt Weill, German-born American composer Stefan Wolpe (1902–1972), German-born American composer. Wang Xiaosong, artist Isang Yun (1917-1995), composer

Notable teachers

Shinkichi Tajiri 1969 - Ineke Hans 2017 – Hito Steyerl Ai Weiwei 2012– Joseph Ahrens 1945–1969 Georg Baselitz −2005 F. W. Bernstein, (1984–1999) Jolyon Brettingham Smith 1977–1981 Beatrix Borchard Siegfried Borris Katharina Sieverding John Burgan 1996–2001 Massimo Carmassi Tony Cragg −2006 Pascal Devoyon 1996– Olafur Eliasson 2009–2014 Heinz Emigholz Valérie Favre 2006– Emanuel Feuermann 1929–1933 Friedrich Goldmann 1991–2005 Christian Grube 1973– Elisabeth Grümmer 1965–1986 Byung-Chul Han 2012– Pál Hermann 1902–1944 Fons Hickmann 2007– Paul Hindemith 1895–1963 Karl Hofer Leiko Ikemura Amalie Joachim Joseph Joachim 1869–1907 Gesche Joost 2011– Mark Lammert 2011– Axel Kufus 2004 – Lula Mysz-Gmeiner 1920–1945 Aurèle Nicolet 1926– Corinna von Rad Daniel Richter 2005–2006 Max Rostal 1928–1933 Joachim Sauter 1991–2021 Arnold Schoenberg 1922–1933 Ernst Gerold Schramm Clara Schumann 1819–1896Bertita Leonarz Harding, Concerto: The Story of Clara Schumann, G.G. Harrap, 1962, p. 191. Laszlo Simon 1981–2009 Walter Stöhrer Karl Oppermann 1971-1996 Witold Szalonek 1973–? Leo van Doeselaar 1995–2019 Jean-Philippe Vassal 2012– Vivienne Westwood 1993–2005 Josef Wolfsthal 1926–1931 Ji-Yeoun You 2009– Isang Yun (composer) 1970–85 Siegfried Zielinski 2007– Walter Zimmermann 1993– Thomas Zipp 2008–

Berlin University of the Arts

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