Berlin University of the Arts

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Berlin University of the Arts Universität der Künste Berlin
Location
Berlin, Germany
Information
Enrollment	4500
Website	http://www.udk-berlin.de/

The Universität der Künste Berlin, UdK (Berlin University of the Arts) is a German university founded in 1975 with the merger of the Berlin State School of Fine Arts and the Berlin State School of Music and the Performing Arts. Its root institutions date back to the founding of the Akademie der Künste in 1696. The university has four colleges specialising in fine arts, architecture, media and design, music and the performing arts with around 4,500 students. A Hochschule until November 2001, the university is one of the largest institutions of music and arts in the world. Thus the Berlin University of the Arts is the only university in Germany except the University of the Arts Bremen, which unites the faculties of art and music in one institution.

[edit] Some notable alumni

• Claudio Arrau (pianist)
• Eduard Franck
• Leopold Godowsky (pianist)
• Otto Klemperer (conductor)
• Moritz Moszkowski (pianist, composer)
• Arnold Schönberg (composer)
• Bruno Walter (conductor)
• Isang Yun (composer)

[edit] Some notable teachers

• Georg Baselitz –2005
• Jolyon Brettingham Smith 1977–1981
• Tony Cragg –2006
• Heinz Emigholz
• Elisabeth Grümmer 1965–1986
• Fons Hickmann 2007–
• Massimo Carmassi
• Karl Hofer
• Leiko Ikemura
• Joseph Joachim 1869–1907
• Daniel Richter 2005–2006
• Max Rostal 1928–1933
• Aurèle Nicolet 1926-
• Walter Stöhrer
• Vivienne Westwood 1993–2005

[edit] External links

• Universität der Künste Berlin Official website (German)
• Universität der Künste Berlin Official website (English)

Coordinates: 52°30′29″N 13°19′52″E / 52.50806°N 13.33111°E / 52.50806; 13.33111