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
Bombing of Dresden in World War II east-west along the central European uplands. The city was at the junction of the Berlin-Prague-Vienna railway line, as well as the Munich-Breslau, and Hamburg-Leipzig lines. Colonel Harold E. Cook, a US POW held in the Friedrichstadt marshaling yard the night before the attacks, later said that "I saw with my own eyes that Dresden was an armed camp: thousands of German troops, tanks and artillery and miles of freight cars loaded with supplies supporting and transporting German logistics towards the east to meet the Russians". An RAF memo issued to airmen on the night of the attack indicated that a