Academy of Fine Arts
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna—Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien—traces its origin to 1688, when it was founded as a private academy for artists. Its early model drew on institutions like the Accademia di San Luca and the Parisian Académie de peinture et de sculpture, under the court-painter Peter Strudel, who became Praefectus Academiae Nostrae. Strudel’s influence ended with his death in 1714, and the academy closed temporarily. A new start came on 20 January 1725, when Emperor Charles VI appointed Jacob van Schuppen as Prefect and Director, refounding it as the imperial court academy for painters, sculptors, and architecture. The academy’s collections expanded in 1822 through the bequest of Anton Franz de Paula Graf Lamberg-Sprinzenstein, whose holdings still form the backbone of what the school displays. …
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