Academy of Berlin

Academy of Berlin may refer to:

  • Prussian Academy of Arts, an art school set up in Berlin, Brandenburg, in 1694/1696 by prince-elector Frederick III and disbanded in 1955 after the foundation of two separate academies of art for East and West Berlin.
  • Akademie der Künste, an arts institution in Berlin, Germany, formed in 1993 from the merging of those two academies.


  • Prussian Academy of Sciences, an academic academy established in Berlin in 1700
  • German Academy of Sciences Berlin, founded in 1946 by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany as a reorganisation of the Prussian Academy of Sciences

Famous quotes containing the words academy and/or berlin:

    When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    I’m dreaming of a white Christmas,
    Just like the ones I used to know,
    —Irving Berlin (1888–1989)