Braunschweig University of Art

The history of the “Hochschule für Bildende Künste” – abbreviated as HBK - in Brunswick goes back to the “Zeichnen-Instithut” founded by the Brunswick Business Association in 1841 and which was first led by Johannes Selenka. From that Drawing Institute, the state-approved urban “Handwerker-Kunstgewerbeschule” developed via various stages, and shortly thereafter the “Meisterschule des Deutschen Handwerks” developed.
The real precursor of the HBK was founded in 1952: the urban “Werkkunstschule Braunschweig” . It became the “Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste” – abbreviated as SHFBK - and in 1978 it became the HBK. The SHFBK was already equated with the academic universities of Lower Saxony since 1972 and a few years later it was included in the Lower Saxony Higher Education Act as an artistic and scientific university. Since then the HBK has the right to award doctoral degrees as well as habilitation. Associated with this recognition was an extension in staff and space. In 1984, the award-winning new building of the Brunswick architects Kraemer, Sieverts & Partners was completed. A few years later, a multi-storied former factory building was rebuilt in which many of the artistic classes and workshops are housed. As a final addition, the library became an expansion which was built with parts of the dismantled Mexican pavilion from the EXPO 2000 by architect Ricardo Legorreta.

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