Notes for "Die kleine Stadt" by Heinrich Mann
© Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Heinrich Mann's pocket calendar, February 1933
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, © Photo: Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk, 2016
Photo album presented to Carl Steffeck by the members of the Society of Berlin Artists (VBK), 1880
Akademie der Künste, Berlin © Photo: Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk, 2017
Detail of the list of students in the perspective and optics class, 1813
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, © Photo: Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk, 2016

The Archives’ collection profile has gradually changed as the artistic community has grown and new art movements have emerged. For the archives as a whole, it covers the general areas of focus described above. Individual archival departments have their own specialist collecting areas.

Members of the Akademie der Künste
Art in Berlin and Germany since 1900
Émigré artists during the Nazi period (1933–1945)
Jewish Cultural Federation (Jüdischer Kulturbund) in Germany (1933–1941)
Art and cultural politics in East Germany
History of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin since 1696
Archives of associations and groups

The Archives' Collection Profile