The Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg ( was founded in 1662 by Jacob von Sandrart and is the oldest art academy in German-speaking Central Europe.

The art academy is situated in Nuremberg

Nuremberg

Nuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...

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In the classes for fine arts, sculpture, visual arts, painting, artistic concepts, art education, gold- and silversmithing, as well as graphic design, the professors and students carry out candid discussions. The master courses of Architecture and Urban Studies as well as Art and Public Space are among the most renowned in their fields.

Teaching takes place today in an ensemble of transparent pavilions that were designed by the well known german architect Sep Ruf and have been classified as an historical monument. Located at the edge of the city, the campus offers an intensive work atmosphere. Artistic techniques are taught in outstandingly well-equipped workshops. In the exhibition hall of the Academy and in the Galery of the Academy, young artists, some for the first time, publicly present their work. In addition to the main location in Nuremberg’s Zerzabelshof district, the college has been using space in the historical imperial castle in Lauf since 1985 as a branch location in which to accommodate the art education and art pedagogy classes.

Partnerships with art-universities in Western and Eastern Europe—Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts

Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts

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-Cracow, Palermo, Riga

Art Academy of Latvia

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, Sassari, Urbino, University of Applied Arts Vienna

University of Applied Arts Vienna

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, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

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 — make it possible for students to complete part of their course of study abroad

Notable students and professors

• Herbert Achternbusch
• Peter Angermann
  Peter Angermann
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• Heike Baranowsky
• Rainer Beck
• Benjamin Bergmann, (visiting professor 2008/2009)
• Walter Bernstein (artist)
• Diego Bianconi
  Diego Bianconi
  Diego Bianconi is a Swiss painter.From 1972 to 1973 Bianconi attended the C.S.I.A. Art School in Lugano. He received private instruction in painting and design with Leo Maillet, a master pupil of Max Beckmann, in 1982, and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg from 1988 to 1995...
  
  , (1988–1995)
• Michaela Biet
• Oliver Boberg
  Oliver Boberg
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• Matthias Böttger
• Friedrich von Borries
• Arno Brandlhuber
• Claus Bury
• Celine Condorelli (visiting professor 2010)
• Gabriela Dauerer
  Gabriela Dauerer
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• Rolf-Gunter Dienst
• Christian Demand
• Georg Eberlein
• Martin Eder
  Martin Eder
  Martin Eder is a German artist.From 1986 until 1992, he studied at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, and from 1993 until 1995 continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, attending the University of Kassel in 1995 and 1996...
  
  
• Matthias Egersdörfer
• Georg Christoph Eimmart
  Georg Christoph Eimmart
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• Stephan Eusemann
• Alfred Finsterer
• Johannes Gachnang (visiting professor)
• Angela Glajcar
• Adolf Gnauth
• Irma Goecke
• Hermann Gradl
• Otto Grau
• Tamara Grcic, (visiting professor 2010)
• Fritz Griebel
• Johannes Grützke
• Michael Hakimi
• Blalla W. Hallmann
• Andreas Heiszenberger
• Hanns Herpich
• Adolf von Hildebrand
  Adolf von Hildebrand
  Adolf von Hildebrand was a German sculptor,Hildebrand was born at Marburg, the son of Marburg economics professor Bruno Hildebrand. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, with Kaspar von Zumbusch at the Munich Academy and with Rudolf Siemering in Berlin...
  
  
• Johannes Peter Hölzinger
• Leni Hoffmann
• Heinrich Ilgenfritz
• Friedrich August von Kaulbach
  Friedrich August von Kaulbach
  Friedrich August von Kaulbach was a German portraitist and historical painter. He was the son of Theodor Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Kaulbach , the court painter at Hannover, and the great nephew of Wilhelm Kaulbach, another prominent member of the Kaulbach family of artists...
  
  
• Thomas Kilpper
• Philipp Kittler
• Alfred Kohler
• Oskar Koller
• August von Kreling
  August von Kreling
  August von Kreling German sculptor born in Osnabrück. He studied with Cornelius and in 1853, became director of the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg...
  
  
• Christian Kruck
• Johann Michael Kupfer
• Marko Lehanka
• Arnold Leissler
• Richard Lindner
  Richard Lindner (painter)
  Richard Lindner was a German-American painter.- Biography :Richard Lindner was born in Hamburg. His mother Mina Lindner was American and born in New York as daughter of German parents...
  
  
• Ludwig von Löfftz
• Johan Lorbeer
  Johan Lorbeer
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• Karlheinz Lüdeking
• Michael Mathias Prechtl
  Michael Mathias Prechtl
  Michael Mathias Prechtl was a German artist, illustrator and cartoonist. He served as a soldier on the Eastern Front during World War II and spent 1945-49 as a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union....
  
  
• Christian Mischke
• Julius Mössel
• Bernhard Prinz
• Rolf Nida-Rümelin
• Georg Karl Pfahler
• Wunibald Puchner
• Karl Raupp
  Karl Raupp
  Karl Raupp was a German landscape and genre painter.-Biography:After studying genre painting under Jakob Becker at the Städel Institute in Frankfurt, he became a pupil and zealous follower of Piloty in Munich , where he soon gathered a small school. After 1865, he opened a studio, taking private...
  
  
• Dan Reeder
  Dan Reeder
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• Carsten Recksik
• Hans Peter Reuter
• Paul Ritter (1829)
• Sep Ruf
• Ludwig Ruff
  Ludwig Ruff
  Ludwig Ruff was an architect during the National Socialist regime in Germany, the father of Franz Ruff and responsible for beginning the Nuremberg Party Congress Hall before his death in 1934.-External links:*...
  
  
• Paul Schad-Rossa
• Heinz Schillinger
• Alf Schuler
• Tim Scott (artist)
  Tim Scott (artist)
  Tim Scott is a British sculptor known for his abstract sculptures made from transparent acrylic and steel. While studying architecture, Scott also studied sculpture part time at St. Martins School of Art...
  
  
• Hans Stubenrauch
• Pelin Tan (visiting professor 2008)
• Florian Tuercke
• Wilhelm Uhlig
• Günter Voglsamer
• Stephan Walter
• Konradin Walther
• Friedrich Wanderer
• Gerd Weiland
• Gerhard Wendland
• Hans Peter Willberg
• Hans Wimmer
• Georg Winter (artist)

External links

• Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg