University of the Arts Bremen

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University of the Arts Bremen
Hochschule für Künste Bremen

Established:	1873
Type:	Public
President:	Prof. Dr. Manfred Cordes
Location:	Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Affiliations:	ELIA, AEC
Website:	www.hfk-bremen.de

Speicher XI, fine arts and design faculty. Formerly docks of the Bremen Harbour.

The University of the Arts Bremen (German: Hochschule für Künste Bremen, HfK Bremen) is a publicly funded university in Bremen, Germany and one of the most successful ones whose roots in music, arts and design date back to 1873. The University of the Arts Bremen runs a faculty of fine arts & design and a faculty of music with approximately 900 students, 65 professors and about 180 assistant professors.

The academic pillars of the University of the Arts Bremen are music, art, design and theory. Within Germany, the special combination of the music and visual arts department beneath one roof can only be found at the University of the Arts Bremen and the Berlin University of the Arts. Recent developments in interplay in the fields of art and music (like video art, new media, digital media, auditory design) emphasised the good sense of this fecund affiliation of disciplines.

1 History
2 Courses of studies
- 2.1 Faculty of Fine Art and Design
- 2.2 Faculty of Music
3 External links

[edit] History

In 1998, it had two reasons to celebrate: the 10th anniversary of the University of the Arts and the 125th anniversary of the Art Academy.

Since 2003, the fine arts faculty of the University of the Arts Bremen has located in Speicher XI in the former overseas harbour in the district "Überseestadt". The music faculty is located at a second site in Dechanatstraße in the city centre near the Bremen City Hall and the Bremen Cathedral.