Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
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The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is a public art school in Vienna, Austria. Founded in 1688 as a private academy, it is now a public university.
Life drawing room at the Vienna academy, Martin Ferdinand Quadal, 1787
Main entrance on Schillerplatz
Fragment of the main building of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
Anatomical room of the Akademie
Christian Griepenkerl
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Christian Griepenkerl was a German painter and professor, best known for rejecting Adolf Hitler's application to train at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
…completion in 1892. In 1907 and 1908, young Adolf Hitler, who had come from Linz, was twice denied admission to the drawing class by academy professor Christian Griepenkerl. He stayed in Vienna, subsisting on his orphan allowance, and tried unsuccessfully to continue his profession as an artist. Soon he had withdrawn into…
Griepenkerl (ca. 1907)
Christian Griepenkerl in 1882
Academy of Sciences in Athens