Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, often abbreviated HfBK Dresden or simply HfBK, is a vocational university of visual arts located in Dresden, Germany. The present institution is the product of a merger between the famous Dresden Art Academy, founded in 1764, the workplace and training ground of a number of influential European artists, and another well-established local art school, Hochschule für Werkkunst Dresden, after World War II.
Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts on Brühl's Terrace, view of the front side
The glass dome of the main building - colloquially referred to as "Lemon Squeezer"
Pheme or Fama on top of the dome of the main building
Gottfried Semper was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture who designed and built the Semper Opera House in Dresden between 1838 and 1841. In 1849 he took part in the May Uprising in Dresden and was put on the government's wanted list. He fled first to Zürich and later to London. He returned to Germany after the 1862 amnesty granted to the revolutionaries.
Semper in 1870
Monument to Gottfried Semper on Brühl's Terrace next to Albertinum
Dresden, Interior of the first Hoftheater (Semper Oper)
Gottfried Semper