Former faculty members One of its most illustrious teachers was
Bernardo Bellotto, a painter of town scapes of Dresden. At the beginning of the 19th century, painters such as
Anton Graff and
Adrian Zingg made the Dresden Academy one of the most important art schools in Europe. The engraver
Johann Friedrich Wilhem Müller, author of a famous engraving of the
Sistine Madonna after Raphael, was a professor at the Akademie from 1814 to 1816.
Ernst Rietschel,
Gottfried Semper and
Ludwig Richter consolidated the reputation of the academy, which experienced a further zenith around the turn of the century. Many other eminent artists and scholars closely associated with the history of the Academy include
Eugen Bracht,
Giovanni Casanova,
Caspar David Friedrich,
Oskar Kokoschka, and
Otto Dix, who taught at the Dresden Academy and shaped its profile. Other former artist professors are: •
Karl Albiker •
Johan Christian Dahl •
Constantin Lipsius •
Richard Müller •
Georg Hermann Nicolai •
Moritz Retzsch •
Paul Wallot famous artist presidents: •
Johannes Heisig (1989–91)
Alumni •
Carl Gustav Carus, (1789–1869), German physiologist and painter •
Otto Dix (1891–1969), German painter and printmaker •
Conrad Felixmüller (1897–1977), German painter and printmaker •
Fedor Flinzer (1832–1911), German author, educator, and illustrator •
Hilde Goldschmidt (1897-1980), German painter and printmaker •
Tatyana Grosman (1904–1982), Russian American printmaker, and publisher •
George Grosz (1893–1959), German painter and caricaturist •
Eberhard Havekost (born 1967), German painter and stonemason •
Friedrich Heyser (1857–1921), German painter •
Kurt Hilscher (1904–1980), German commercial illustrator •
Ludwig von Hofmann (1861–1945), German painter, graphic artist and designer •
Wilhelm von Kügelgen (1802–1867), German painter and writer •
Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler (1899–1940), German painter and graphic artist •
Yana Milev, German philosopher, sociologist, and ethnographer •
Otto Mueller (1874–1930), German painter and printmaker •
Rolf Nesch (1893–1975), Norwegian printmaker, painter and sculptor •
Bencho Obreshkov (1899–1970), Bulgarian painter •
Julius Platzmann (1832-1902), German botanist, artist and bibliophile •
Hermann Prell (1854–1922), German history painter and sculptor •
Sandra Rauch (born 1967), German artist •
Thomas Reichstein (born 1960), German sculptor •
Adrian Ludwig Richter (1803–1884), German painter and etcher •
Gerhard Richter (born 1932), German painter and photographer •
Osmar Schindler (1869–1927), German painter •
Cornelia Schleime (born 1953), German painter, performer, filmmaker and author •
Sascha Schneider (1870–1927), German painter and sculptor •
Kurt Schwitters, (1887–1948) German painter •
Lasar Segall (1891–1957), Brazilian painter, engraver and sculptor •
Karl August Senff (1770–1838), Baltic German painter, engraver and art teacher •
Hans Unger (1872–1936), German painter •
Otto Kaule (1870–1948), German painter ==Locations==