Academy for Visual Arts

The Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst or Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig is one of the oldest art schools in , dating back to 1764. The academy has four colleges specializing in fine arts, graphic design, photography and new media art with around 500 students.
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  • Opening hours:
    Monday—Friday: 8:00 AM—9:00 PM
    Saturday: noon—5:00 PM
  • Email: hgb@hgb-leipzig.de
  • Type: University
  • Description: art school in Germany
  • Also known as: “Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig”, “Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig”, “Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst”, “Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig”, “Staatliche Akademie für Graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe zu Leipzig”, “Staatliche Akademie für Künste und Buchgewerbe”, and “Zeichnungs-, Mahlerey und Architectur-Akademie”
  • Address: Wächterstraße 11, Leipzig, 04107

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include University of Music and Theatre Leipzig and German Institute for Literature.

University
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The University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig is a public university in , , Germany. Founded in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn as the Conservatorium der Musik, it is the oldest university school of music in Germany.

University
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The is a part of Leipzig University and offers university education for writers. It was founded in 1955 under the name Johannes R.

Museum
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is a museum, which is situated 170 metres northwest of Academy for Visual Arts.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Musikviertel and Südvorstadt.

Neighborhood
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is a neighbourhood in , . The is part of the locality Zentrum-Süd in the borough of Leipzig-Mitte.The name goes back to the first music institutions built in the neighbourhood, the second Gewandhaus and the new building of the .

Suburb
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is a locality in the south borough of , . The is crossed from north to south by the Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse. Due to its proximity to the city centre, but also to larger green spaces, it is a popular residential area with old buildings of the Gründerzeit period.

Neighborhood
is a neighbourhood in the north west of 's borough Mitte in , . It is considered one of the largest complete areas of Gründerzeit buildings in Europe and is therefore considered of important cultural and heritage status.

Academy for Visual Arts

Latitude
51.33318° or 51° 19′ 60″ north
Longitude
12.36795° or 12° 22′ 5″ east
Levels
4
Wheelchair access
limited
Open location code
9F3J89M9+75
Open­Street­Map ID
way 44950086
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­university
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­office
Wiki­data ID
Q315175
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Academy for Visual Arts” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أكاديمية الفنون الجميلة في لايبزيغ”
  • Armenian: “Լայպցիգի գեղարվեստի ակադեմիա”
  • Azerbaijani: “Leypsiq İncəsənət Akademiyası”
  • Belarusian: “Вышэйшая школа графікі і кніжнага мастацтва”
  • Chinese: “莱比锡视觉艺术学院”
  • Chinese: “萊比錫視覺藝術學院”
  • Czech: “Vysoká škola grafiky a knižního umění v Lipsku”
  • Dutch: “Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig”
  • Dutch: “Staatliche Akademie für Graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe zu Leipzig”
  • Dutch: “Staatliche Akademie für Künste und Buchgewerbe”
  • French: “Académie des arts graphiques de Leipzig”
  • French: “Académie des beaux-arts de Leipzig”
  • French: “Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB)”
  • French: “Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig”
  • German: “Akademie für Graphische Künste und Buchgewerbe”
  • German: “HGB Leipzig”
  • German: “HGB”
  • German: “Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig”
  • German: “Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst”
  • Hebrew: “האקדמיה לאמנויות היפות של לייפציג”
  • Hungarian: “Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig”
  • Italian: “Accademia di Belle Arti di Lipsia”
  • Japanese: “ライプツィヒの視覚芸術アカデミー”
  • Japanese: “ライプツィヒ国立美術アカデミー”
  • Japanese: “ライプツィヒ版画・製本芸術大学”
  • Japanese: “ライプツィヒ視覚・製本芸術大学”
  • Luxembourgish: “Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig”
  • Russian: “Высшая школа графики и книжного искусства”
  • Spanish: “Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig”
  • Swedish: “Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig”
  • Turkish: “Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig”

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Highlights include Bibliothek der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig and Leipzig University Library.

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