Berlin University of the Arts
Universität der Künste Berlin
Established	1696/1869/1875 1966/1975
Type	Public University
Endowment	EUR 70 Mio[1]
President	Martin Rennert
Admin. staff	c. 700[1]
Students	3,618 (WS 2009/10)[1]
Location	Berlin, Germany Coordinates: 52°30′32″N 13°19′37″E / 52.50889°N 13.32694°E / 52.50889; 13.32694
Campus	Charlottenburg
Website	www.udk-berlin.de

The Universität der Künste Berlin, UdK (Berlin University of the Arts) is a public art school in Berlin, Germany, one of the four universities in the city. A Hochschule until November 2001, the university is one of the largest institutions of music and arts in the world.^{[citation needed]}

It has four colleges specialising in fine arts, architecture, media and design, music and the performing arts with around 3,600 students. Thus the UdK is one of only three universities in Germany (along with the University of the Arts Bremen and the Folkwang University of the Arts) to unite the faculties of art and music in one institution.

  History

Its roots institutions date back to the foundation of Academie der Mahl-, Bild- und Baukunst (Academy of the Art of Painting, Pictorial Art and Architecture), the later Prussian Academy of Arts, at the behest of Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg. The two predecessor organisations were the Berlin State School of Music and the Performing Arts established in 1869 under Joseph Joachim, which also had adopted the tradition of the famous Stern Conservatory, and the Berlin State School of Fine Arts founded in 1875.

In 1975, both art schools merged under the name Hochschule der Künste Berlin, HdK. The organization received the title of a university on 1 November 2001.

  Notable alumni

• Claudio Arrau, pianist
• Eduard Franck
• Leopold Godowsky, pianist
• Christian Leden, ethno-musicologist; composer
• Otto Kinkeldey, (1878–1966), musicologist, academic music library pioneer
• Otto Klemperer, conductor
• Moritz Moszkowski, pianist, composer
• Isabel Mundry, composer
• Ignatz Waghalter, composer, conductor
• Bruno Walter, conductor
• Kurt Weill, composer
• Isang Yun, composer

  Notable teachers

• Joseph Ahrens 1945–1969
• Georg Baselitz –2005
• Jolyon Brettingham Smith 1977–1981
• John Burgan 1996–2001
• Massimo Carmassi
• Tony Cragg –2006
• Pascal Devoyon 1996-
• Olafur Eliasson
• Heinz Emigholz
• Valérie Favre 2006-
• Emanuel Feuermann 1929-1933
• Christian Grube 1973-
• Elisabeth Grümmer 1965–1986
• Klaus Hellwig 1980-
• Fons Hickmann 2007–
• Karl Hofer
• Leiko Ikemura
• Joseph Joachim 1869–1907
• Gesche Joost 2011-
• Mark Lammert 2011-
• Mitzi Meyerson
• Aurèle Nicolet 1926-
• Daniel Richter 2005–2006
• Max Rostal 1928–1933
• Joachim Sauter
• Arnold Schoenberg 1922-1933
• Clara Schumann 1819-1896^[2]
• Laszlo Simon 1981—2009
• Walter Stöhrer
• Witold Szalonek 1973-?
• Leo van Doeselaar 1995-
• Vivienne Westwood 1993–2005
• Ji-Yeoun You 2009-
• Isang Yun (composer) 1970-85
• Thomas Zipp 2008-

  References

1. ^ ^{a b c} udk-berlin.de: (German) Zahlen und Fakten.
2. ^ Bertita Leonarz Harding, Concerto: The Story of Clara Schumann, G.G. Harrap, 1962, p. 191.

  External links

• Berlin University of the Arts (English)
• Universität der Künste Berlin (German)
• http://study-art-or-music-in-berlin.info/EN/index.html