DOI Heft:
Nr. 143 (February 1905)
DOI Artikel:Van der Veer, Lenore: Art student life in Munich
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20711#0035
Munich Students
whole area, from boundary line to boundary line, Theatre and opera tickets are half price. They
is dotted by feminine and masculine figures in the have half-rate admissions to the public baths, and
garb dear to the student of art, the more peculiar receive special care, rooms, etc., free of charge at
and inelegant the better, and no house is too * all hospitals when ill. If living outside of Munich,
"grand" or too primitive to "let out" studio they are given special reduced rates on the rail-
accommodation. On first coming to Munich I ways; the most important medical college throws
asked a student to show me over the artist quarter, open its amphitheatre for regular courses in ana-
and was laughingly told that the whole of the town tomical lectures by one of its finest anatomists free
might be termed that. of charge to the art students. Everything, in fact,
There can be no question as to whether Munich is done to help the budding genius in the art
loves her art student. She certainly does ; and Academy, even to leniency shown him by the city
from giving the most of art training, in return for fathers when he gets too hilarious in the streets, a
the least money, down to taking the best of digression from duty known to every student
"motherly" care of them when ill, the German town.
town shows both pride and affection in her aspiring Apart from the Academy and the several private
Kinder. ateliers for students, there is in Munich an institu-
For three pounds a year the German art student tion peculiar to herself called the Werkstatten,
may have easel room in the Academy school, and meaning workshop, where students or young artists
the full privileges and ad-
vantages of a thorough
art training — these three
pounds being inclusive
of everything, from model
fees to criticisms from the
most distinguished artists,
the only additional ex-
pense being for working
materials. And in the
event of some very poor >■:
student being unable to
buy these, there is always
some way found for him
to, do so, generally through
his professor becoming an
intermediary between him
and his town council.
When fairly well ad-
vanced, if a student shows
any unusual ability, he is
given a private atelier,
either quite alone or with
one other student, in the
Academy building, where
he ma)' work by himself
and still have the criticism
of his chosen professors.
This atelier ma)' be re-
tained for almost an in-
definite period, quite
according to the personal
desires of the worker.
All art exhibitions and
museums in Munich are
free to the art students. "the landscape painter" by professor carl marr
19
whole area, from boundary line to boundary line, Theatre and opera tickets are half price. They
is dotted by feminine and masculine figures in the have half-rate admissions to the public baths, and
garb dear to the student of art, the more peculiar receive special care, rooms, etc., free of charge at
and inelegant the better, and no house is too * all hospitals when ill. If living outside of Munich,
"grand" or too primitive to "let out" studio they are given special reduced rates on the rail-
accommodation. On first coming to Munich I ways; the most important medical college throws
asked a student to show me over the artist quarter, open its amphitheatre for regular courses in ana-
and was laughingly told that the whole of the town tomical lectures by one of its finest anatomists free
might be termed that. of charge to the art students. Everything, in fact,
There can be no question as to whether Munich is done to help the budding genius in the art
loves her art student. She certainly does ; and Academy, even to leniency shown him by the city
from giving the most of art training, in return for fathers when he gets too hilarious in the streets, a
the least money, down to taking the best of digression from duty known to every student
"motherly" care of them when ill, the German town.
town shows both pride and affection in her aspiring Apart from the Academy and the several private
Kinder. ateliers for students, there is in Munich an institu-
For three pounds a year the German art student tion peculiar to herself called the Werkstatten,
may have easel room in the Academy school, and meaning workshop, where students or young artists
the full privileges and ad-
vantages of a thorough
art training — these three
pounds being inclusive
of everything, from model
fees to criticisms from the
most distinguished artists,
the only additional ex-
pense being for working
materials. And in the
event of some very poor >■:
student being unable to
buy these, there is always
some way found for him
to, do so, generally through
his professor becoming an
intermediary between him
and his town council.
When fairly well ad-
vanced, if a student shows
any unusual ability, he is
given a private atelier,
either quite alone or with
one other student, in the
Academy building, where
he ma)' work by himself
and still have the criticism
of his chosen professors.
This atelier ma)' be re-
tained for almost an in-
definite period, quite
according to the personal
desires of the worker.
All art exhibitions and
museums in Munich are
free to the art students. "the landscape painter" by professor carl marr
19