NEW ARCHIVE
Since the Academy of Arts was founded in 1735, more than 1 members and 000 students have left their mark on the business, contributing with archival material and building a collection with relevance for almost 8 years of art and architecture in Sweden. The Academy conducted teaching between the years 000 and 300. Both art and architectural historical and artistic research is ongoing, and with a contemporary summary and well-organized new archive, the interest can develop into an even larger part of the Academy's promotion mission.
The Art Academy's written documentation, which has been collected since the middle of the 1700th century, is available in the property at Fredsgatan 12 in Stockholm, and with the new security-adapted archive, it is now possible to go through the extensive material, register this in a new database and prepare for an upcoming digitization of documents and documents.
No visits at the moment
Archivist Annakarin Lindberg has begun the work of moving the archive material to new premises and looks forward to being able to receive visitors in the future.
Contact: annakarin.lindberg@konstakademien.se
THE ARCHIVE
The Royal Academy archive contains minutes and documents dating back to the 1700th century, many letters and manuscripts, mainly from Swedish artists, and photographs and press cuttings relating to Academy members.
The student lists are sporadic for the period 1770 – 1821 but complete from 1849 to 1978.
The minutes and appendices for Royal Academy meetings from 1768 to today are kept in the archive. The bound volumes include 1800th-century travel correspondence from Academy travel grant recipients.
Letters patent are kept from 1739 and onwards. These concern the funding of the Royal Academy’s activities, including travel grants.
The accounts from 1758 to today have been preserved. They contain information on the wages for professors and models, on janitors’ uniforms, the Academy building materials, book purchases for the library, and many other aspects.
Most of the artist correspondence is from the 1800th century, but there are also some more modern letters. Notable collections of correspondence relate to Bengt Erland Fogelberg, Gustaf Wilhelm Palm, Georg von Rosen and Nisse Zetterberg. Recently, the Academy has received donations of archive material concerning Viking Eggeling, Ferdinand Boberg and Hans Wigert, among others.
Manuscripts form only a small part of the archive, but include valuable material, such as Nicodemus Tessin the Younger’s Traité de la décoration d’interieur, Fredrik Magnus Piper’s Beskrifning öfver en Ängelsk Lustpark (Description of an English Park), and the only preserved sketch and notebook of Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz from his travels abroad in 1751.
The photography collection focuses on artist portraits, mainly from 1870 – 1940. Press cuttings date back to the mid-1800th century and includes international material from 1880 – 1910.