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Weimar Saxon-Grand Ducal Art School (Grossherzoglich-Sächsische Kunstschule Weimar) was an art school set up by decree by Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

Karl Alexander August Johann, Grand Duke of Saxony; 24 June 1818 – 5 January 1901) was the ruler of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach from 1853 until his death.-Biography:...

on 1 October 1860. It existed until 1910. That year it was promoted to a Kunsthochschule

Art school

Art school is a general term for any educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts, especially illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, and graphic design. The term applies to institutions with elementary, secondary, post-secondary or undergraduate, or graduate or...

as the Großherzoglich Sächsische Hochschule für Bildende Kunst in Weimar. It is not to be confused with the Fürstlichen freien Zeichenschule

Weimar Princely Free Zeichenschule

The Weimar Princely Free Zeichenschule was an art and literature educational establishment. It was set up in 1776 in Weimar by the scholar and ducal private-secretary Friedrich Justin Bertuch and the painter Georg Melchior Kraus , as part of Weimar Classicism...

(1776–1930), which from 1860 gave the preliminary teaching before admission to the art school.

Directors and lecturers

By date of appointment.

Name	Life	Class	Teacher (dates)	Director (dates)	Notes
Stanislaus von Kalckreuth	1820–1894			1860–1876
Alexander Michelis	1823–1888		1863–1868
Arnold Böcklin Arnold Böcklin Arnold Böcklin was a Swiss symbolist painter.-Life and art:He was born at Basel. His father, Christian Frederick Böcklin , was descended from an old family of Schaffhausen, and engaged in the silk trade. His mother, Ursula Lippe, was a native of the same city...	1827–1901		1860–1862
Arthur von Ramberg Arthur von Ramberg Arthur von Ramberg was an Austrian-born painter who worked in Germany.-Biography:He studied art at Hanover and early made a tour in Italy, Hungary and Styria. In 1840, he attended the university at Prague, while at the same time uniting the pursuit of art with his other studies...	1819–1875		1860–1866
Carl Hummel	1821-?	Landscape painting	1860-?
Franz von Lenbach Franz von Lenbach Franz von Lenbach was a German painter of Realist style.-Biography:Lenbach was born at Schrobenhausen, in Bavaria. His father was a mason, and the boy was intended to follow his father's trade or be a builder. With this view he was sent to school at Landsberg, and then to the polytechnic at Augsburg...	1836–1904		1860-?
Johann Wilhelm Cordes Johann Wilhelm Cordes Johann Wilhelm Cordes, a landscape painter, was born at Lübeck in 1824, and died in 1869 at Weimar, where he was professor at the school of arts. A 'Park in Winter,' and 'Hunting the Wild Game,' are two of his productions.-References:...	1824–1869		1860–1869
Reinhold Begas Reinhold Begas Reinhold Begas was a German sculptor.Begas was born in Berlin, son of the painter Karl Begas. He received his early education studying under Christian Daniel Rauch and Ludwig Wilhelm Wichmann...	1831–1911		1861-(1863?)
Ferdinand Pauwels	1830–1904	History painting	1862–1872
Bernhard Plockhorst Bernhard Plockhorst Bernhard Plockhorst was a German painter and graphic artist. In Germany, Plockhorst is only known to experts today, whereas his pictures are still very popular in the United States and their reproductions can be found in many American homes and churches.- Life :Plockhorst was born in Brunswick,...	1825–1907	History and portrait painting, Drawing	1866–1869
Paul Thumann	1834–1908	Genre painting	1866-?		earlier a pupil of F. Pauwels
Max Schmidt Max Schmidt (painter) Max Schmidt was a German landscape painter.-Biography:Schmidt studied in the Berlin Art Academy under Carl Joseph Begas and Wilhelm Schirmer...	1818–1901		1868–1872
Charles Verlat	1824–1890	Category painting	1869-?
Karl Gussow	1843–1907		1870
Theodor Hagen Theodor Hagen Theodor Hagen was born in 1823. He was a member of the local Communist League in Hamburg, Germany. He took part in the publication and distribution of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung Politisch-ökonomische Revue. Hagen died in 1871....	1841–1919	Landscape painting	1871	1877–1881	Also taught from 1881
Albert Baur	1835–1906		1872-(1876?)
Ferdinand Schauss	1832–1916	Portrait and genre painting	1873–1876
Franz Gustav Arndt	1842-?	Landscape painting	1876-?		zuvor Schüler, ab 1879 Sekretär der Kunstschule
Willem Linnig der Jüngere	1849-?	Genre and history painting	1876-?		earlier a pupil
Alexandre Stuys	1852-?	Theatre painting	1878- ?
Albert Heinrich Brendel Albert Heinrich Brendel Albert Heinrich Brendel, who was born in Berlin in 1827, studied in the Prussian Academy of Arts under Wilhelm Krause. In 1851 he went to Paris, and studied under Couture and Palizzi; thence to Italy, and home to Berlin in 1853, completing his studies under Carl Steffeck...	1827–1895	Animal painting	?	1882–1885
Max Thedy	1858–1924		1883
Leopold von Kalckreuth	1855–1928		1885–1890		Earlier a pupil, son of Stanislaus Kalckreuth
Hans Olde	1855–1917			1902?-?	established the Kunstschule as a Hochschule
Ludwig von Hofmann Ludwig von Hofmann Ludwig von Hofmann was a German painter. His style was impressionist, and he painted many paintings, such as his well-known "Rain", in a mixture of impressionist and classical. He competed in the Art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics. He was also blind in one eye.-References:*...	1861–1945		1903–1907		Forerunner of the Neues Weimar movement

Pupils

Hans Arp, Paul Baum, Max Beckmann
Max Beckmann
Max Beckmann was a German painter, draftsman, printmaker, sculptor, and writer. Although he is classified as an Expressionist artist, he rejected both the term and the movement...

, Hugo L. Braune, Ferdinand Brütt, Paul Eduard Crodel, Hans Delbrück
Hans Delbrück
Hans Delbrück was a German historian. Delbrück was one of the first modern military historians, basing his method of research on the critical examination of ancient sources, the use of auxiliary disciplines, like demography and economics, to complete the analysis and the comparison between...

, Ludwig von Gleichen-Rußwurm, Carl Gussow, Wilhelm Hasemann, Ivo Hauptmann, Franz Friedrich Hoffmann-Fallersleben, Otto Illies, Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth
Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth
Leopold Karl Walter Graf von Kalkreuth was a German painter.A direct descendant of the famous field-marshal Friedrich Adolf Graf von Kalckreuth, Leopold was born at Düsseldorf, received his first training at Weimar from his father, the landscape painter Count Stanislaus von Kalckreuth , and...

, Otto von Kameke, Fritz Lattke, Max Liebermann
Max Liebermann
Max Liebermann was a German-Jewish painter and printmaker best known for his etching and lithography.-Biography:...

, Carl Malchin, Carlo Mense
Carlo Mense
Carlo Mense was a German artist, associated at various times with Rhenish Expressionism and New Objectivity.Mense was born in Rheine. He studied with Peter Janssen at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1906 to 1908, and then with Lovis Corinth at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin in 1909...

, Benedikt Momme Nissen, Otto Piltz, Leon Pohle, Louis Preller, Adolf Rettelbusch, Hans Richter, Christian Rohlfs
Christian Rohlfs
Christian Rohlfs was a German painter, one of the important representatives of German expressionism....

, Paul Thumann, Minna Tube

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