Institute of Art and Music

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Oct 09, 2024

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Sep 19, 2024

Marie Meyerding – Walter Benjamin Postdoc at the Institute of Art and Music

Sep 13, 2024

StuFoExpo 2024

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Dec 5 2024

Susan Lamèrs Selbstporträts: Kunst oder Selfies?

Divisions of the Institute

Art History

With its world-class museums and monuments, Dresden offers ideal study conditions. The degree programmes deal with the history of art from late antiquity to the present day and are closely linked to non-university art historical practice. This is achieved primarily through intensive co-operation with high-calibre cultural institutions in Dresden. In this way, students are introduced to museum work and research into the world-famous collections and monuments at the highest level.

Art Education

Everything here revolves around the training of future art teachers. The department supervises the art teaching degree programmes for primary schools, secondary schools and grammar schools. The practice-oriented degree programme is divided into three areas - art theory, art didactics and art practice - leaving plenty of room for individual specialisations and providing optimal preparation for the demands of everyday working life.

Musicology

Musicology at the TU Dresden stands for the combination of music-historical and cognitive perspectives, for the fruitful connection of music theory and empirical research and for the interdisciplinary cooperation of music, mathematics, computer science, linguistics and neuroscience.

THE INSTITUTE OF ART AND MUSIC

The Institute of Art and Music is part of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Science at TU Dresden.

The Institute is divided into the professorships for Visual Culture in the Global Context, Christian Art of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Art History, Early Modern and Modern Art History, Theory of Artistic Design and Art Psychology as well as the Junior Professorship in Empirical Musicology.

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Exhibition recommendations

Caspar David Friedrich, Das Große Gehege bei Dresden, 1832

Caspar David Friedrich — The Painter

Caspar David Friedrich's landscape paintings with their vibrant colors, the mysterious light of his paintings and the depiction of endless distances have had a lasting impact on our view of nature. They derive their great radiance from an airy transparency in the application of color and the magic of their nuances. In the Albertinum, his works are juxtaposed with important landscape paintings from the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister.

Julie Wolfthorn, Waldhexe, um 1898 (Ausschnitt)

Moderne Frauen / Women's Art Rising

The Albertinum looks back and shows works by important female artists of the period around 1900: paintings, sculptures, drawings and graphic art in the spirit of Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) and Symbolism. On display are works by Mathilde Ade, Jenny von Bary-Doussin, Marianne Fiedler, Julie Genthe, Marie Gey-Heinze, Hildegard von Mach, Emilie Mediz-Pelikan, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Cornelia Paczka-Wagner, Lilli Wislicenus-Finzelberg and Julie Wolfthorn.

Building Worlds. Visionary Architecture in the 20th Century

The second exhibition in the newly designed Blockhaus, the Archiv der Avantgarden – Egidio Marzona (ADA) is a comprehensive presentation of visionary architectural concepts, building utopias and dystopias of the 20th century. Around 200 exhibits, including drawings, models, objects and publications, tell the story of the belief in progress as well as cautionary scepticism about life in the future.

Programme of events at the Dresden State Art Collections

The Dresden State Art Collections (SKD) offer a varied programme of lectures, art talks, tours of current exhibitions and much more.

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