Abstract
This study researched how the first director of the Art College in Berlin (Hochschule fur bildende Kunste), Karl Hofer, developed his ideas for the reformation of art academies in the 1920s, based on his manuscripts from the 1910s to the 1930s and his autobiography of 1952. In the early 20th century, Hofer's artistic sensibility was acquired through the influence of French modern art. In the 1920s and 1930s, he developed a new art theory and concept from the abstract artists of Bauhaus. Hofer also tried to find a new way for art education synthesizing traditional art and modern art.
