Talk:Academy of Berlin

Relationships between the institutions

There are four institutions listed, but so far as I can make out, there are actually only two: the two science ones are different incarnations of the same one, as are the two art ones. I've tried to reorganise the page to reflect this.

• The science academies are relatively easy to figure out: the German Academy of Sciences Berlin is the more recent one, formed when the Prussian Academy of Sciences was reorganised in 1946. I've added mention of this to the description.

• The art schools are a little more difficult. The Akademie der Künste is the more recent name for the institution, which was originally founded in 1696 as the Prussian Academy of Arts. This "was finally disbanded in 1955 after the 1954 foundation of two separate academies of art for East Berlin and West Berlin in 1954. Those two separate academies merged in 1993 to form Berlin's present-day Akademie der Künste."

However, the Akademie der Künste article also claims that it was founded in 1696.

The former article suggests that the Akademie der Künste is a successor to the Prussian Academy, but they are separate institutions , whereas the latter appears to claim that they are merely the original and current names for the same organisation.

I think the former is the more accurate interpretation, in which case presumably the Prussian Academy covers everything up to 1955 - despite the eight name-changes between its founding and disbanding, and the Akademie der Künste would be better described as having been founded in 1993.

I've edited the disambiguation page to reflect this, and also left a message on Talk:Akademie der Künste about possibly editing that page to clarify the issue.

CarrieVS (talk) 16:30, 11 January 2013 (UTC)