The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts ( Danish : Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi - Billedkunst Skolerne ) has provided education in the arts for more than 250 years, playing its part in the development of the art of Denmark .
3-679: The Eckersberg Medal (originally the Akademiets Aarsmedaille or Annual Academy Medal) is an annual award of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts . It is named after Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg , known as the father of Danish painting. The Eckersberg Medal was created in 1883, on the 100th birthday of its namesake. Source (1940 onwards): Akademiraadet Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts The Royal Danish Academy of Portraiture, Sculpture, and Architecture in Copenhagen
6-637: The Great Fire of 1795 greatly profited from this initiative. In 1814 the name was changed again, this time to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts . It is still situated in its original building, the Charlottenborg Palace , located on the Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen . The School of Architecture has been situated in former naval buildings on Holmen since 1996. It teaches and conducts research on
9-500: Was inaugurated on 31 March 1754 , and given as a gift to the King Frederik V on his 31st birthday. Its name was changed to the Royal Danish Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in 1771. At the same event, Johann Friedrich Struensee introduced a new scheme in the academy to encourage artisan apprentices to take supplementary classes in drawing so as to develop the notion of "good taste". The building boom resulting from
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