The Städelschule, full name Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule, is a tertiary school of art in
Frankfurt am Main
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, 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.
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".
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 (1796–1868, sculpture) were appointed. Around 1930, the Frankfurt
Kunstgewerbeschule (established 1878) was incorporated into the Städelschule.
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
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administration; in 2007 it received €3.8 million from the city. From 1 January 2019 the school became an educational institution of the state of
Hesse
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, and is funded by that state.
In 1970, was appointed Professor and Head of the Architecture Class.
The Master of Advanced Design evolved from the postgraduate program "Conceptual Design" established by Bock;
it was later led by
Peter Cook,
Enric Miralles,
Ben van Berkel and
Johan Bettum. It was not funded by the state of Hesse, and was closed down in October 2020 for reasons associated with the
COVID-19 pandemic
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.
Teaching staff
Many noted artists teach or have taught at the school.
Max Beckmann
Max Carl Friedrich Beckmann (February 12, 1884 – December 27, 1950) was a German painter, drawing, draftsman, printmaker, sculpture, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the m ...
taught at the Städelschule during the
Weimar Republic
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, but was classed as a "
degenerate artist" and dismissed from his position under the
Nazi
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régime; his work was shown in the
Degenerate Art Exhibition of 1937.
In 2016
Willem de Rooij,
Peter Fischli,
Douglas Gordon,
Michael Krebber and
Tobias Rehberger were among the teaching staff.
Rectors in the last fifty years have included ,
Peter Kubelka,
Kasper König,
Daniel Birnbaum,
Nikolaus Hirsch, and
Yasmil Raymond.
Notes
References
Art schools in Germany
Educational institutions established in 1817
International schools in Germany
Universities and colleges in Hesse
Städel
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