Dresden Academy of Fine Arts Eugen Bracht, Giovanni Casanova, Caspar David Friedrich, Oskar Kokoschka, and Otto Dix, who taught at the Dresden Academy and shaped its profile. Other former artist professors are: famous artist presidents: The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts is located at three places along the Elbe river: Each year in early June the graduation ceremonies and annual exhibitions are held at the locations on the Brühl Terrace and at Pfotenhauerstrasse. Dresden Academy of Fine Arts The Dresden Academy of Fine Arts (German "Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden"), often abbreviated HfBK Dresden or simply HfBK, is a vocational university of visual arts located
Zoological Garden of Hamburg society for the purposes of creating a zoo. On July 10, 1860, at the charter meeting of the Zoological Society of Hamburg (German: "Zoologische Gesellschaft in Hamburg"), Merck was selected as president. It was the fifth zoo in Germany, following the Berlin Zoological Garden in 1844, the Frankfurt Zoological Garden in 1858, the Cologne Zoological Garden in 1860 and the Dresden Zoo in 1861. The Society was a shareholding company. In 1861 it purchased a 13-hectare (32 acre) plot of land outside the Hamburg city walls, next to a municipal cemetery. In November 1862 the zoo issued additional shares to