Historical Archives
© Akademie der Künste, Berlin
© Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Akademie der Künste, Berlin © Photo: Chr. Kraushaar
Akademie der Künste, Berlin © Photo: Chr. Kraushaar
Akademie der Künste, Berlin © Photo: Karin Gaa
Akademie der Künste, Berlin © Photo: Karin Gaa
The Historical Archives, with its administrative documents, serves as the memory of the Akademie der Künste down the centuries. The holdings include the Academy’s entire surviving institutional written and visual documents from the late seventeenth century, when the Academy was founded, to the present day. The Historical Archives comprises 1,000 linear metres of files, approx. 260 linear metres of press cuttings as well as around 125,000 photos.
History of the Academy of Arts – Historical phases
Prussian Akademie der Künste
Akademie der Künste der DDR (East Germany)
Akademie der Künste Berlin (West Berlin)
Akademie der Künste, Berlin (from 1993)
Historical Archives – Main holdings
- Statutes and regulations
- Minutes of general assemblies of members and elections
- Documents on training young artists, and their further training
- Awards of art and literary prizes
- Expert and consultant reports
- Competitions and stipends
- Prizes
- Minutes of debates on art and cultural history
- Correspondence with Academy members (around 2,200 letters)
- Correspondence with state and cultural institutions
- Collections of papers on events, exhibitions and publications