Prussian Academy of Arts. Members’ portraits

Photo collection of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin from when it was founded in 1694/96 by Elector Frederick III and later King Frederick I until the dissolution of the State of Prussia in 1945. The selection of collected portraits of artists of the Prussian Academy of Arts from the Imperial era and the Weimar Republic (c. 1871 to 1933), including presidents Anton von Werner, Carl Becker, Hermann Ende and Franz Schwechten, as well as members of the Visual Arts Section (including Adolph Menzel, Otto Knille, Carl Gussow, Mihály Munkácsy, Käthe Kollwitz and Heinrich Zille), the Music Section (Joseph Joachim, Max Bruch, Jean Sibelius, Alban Berg) and the Section for Poetry (Hermann Hesse, Ricarda Huch, Gerhart Hauptmann).