VON ERLENBACH KUNSTSCHULE, Berlin

Semester Courses: Systematic and Comprehensive Portfolio Preparation
In our view, full-time semester-courses offer the most suitable framework for applicants preparing for university. (This refers to applicants who wish to attend a “Hochschule”, or any higher educational institution, for example the “Fachhochschule” and “Universitaet” entrance examination). The foundations of artistic work as well as specific knowledge and skills can be acquired here. In addition the broad range of exercises bring the student’s work forward, enhance personal strengths and confirm the direction of the individual. The full-time semester courses draw upon each other in terms of their content. These begin annually in the first week of August. Our schedule is designed to provide an appropriate period of preparation in keeping with the submission dates of art academies, universities and professional schools who begin their selection process at the start of the year (in Dresden, Leipzig and Berlin), as well as those that have somewhat later submission deadlines. The fulltime autumn and winter semester courses each run for twelve weeks.

Need-based and targeted classes.
We have designed the structure and content of our classes to enable participants to prepare an individual portfolio which would reflect their intuition, diversity of ideas and creativity by the end of the course.
Specific emphasis is placed on the method of pictorial thinking within our classes. We explore formal approaches to the handling of shapes, colours, planes, lines, bodies, spaces, structures, light impact, materials, surface quality, and their application in artistic work process. The creative investigation takes place foremost in the development of individual works, which allows course participants to gather fundamental experiences in the means of elementary expression and their purposeful application thereafter.