News
Dear visitors,
We are open from Monday to Wednesday 10:00 am - 3:00 pm.
We are offering a research consultation by appointment.
On-site:
We have just mounted a new exhibition:
Figurative relief – two works by students from the theatre plastic department
Swantje Hinrichs and Kristin Schneidenbach
on view from the 2nd Mai 2025 – 30th September 2025.
Please come and visit us during our library opening hours.
You are welcome to use the lockers provided to store your bags and coats while visiting the library.
Further information about our library services:
- Please continue to use our return box in the foyer of the university library to return items.
- Please do not return media to us by post, unless absolutely neccessary.
- Newly borrowed items are subject to the regular loan period of four weeks, with two possible renewals.
- Online renewals can also be made directly via our Opac: choose ‘Member login’, username = immatriculation number, password = date of birth (DDMMYYYY), e.g. 01011980, select the desired media in the field and click on ‘Renew’.
- Ordered literature is available for collection five opening days after the order has been placed.
- If you have any questions about the use, research and inventory or other problems and concerns, please feel free to contact us by telephone (0351 44022118) or by email at bibliothek @ hfbk-dresden.de.
- Information about the OPAC online catalogue can be found here.
The inventory of the books, CDs and DVDs and journals contained in the library can be inspected in the online catalogue. Journals and journal articles are not catalogued.
Electronic sources (e-books, digital assets ) are catalogued as media with zero copies. A link to the full text is provided in the data record of the respective title.
Finc is an online portal that offers the option of browsing through several library catalogues and electronic sources at the same time: Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, SLUB Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Hochschule für Musik - Carl Maria von Weber - Dresden and Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig.
The electronic sources include open-access content as well as licensed databases, e.g., JSTOR.
Prometheus Picture Archive
www.prometheus-bildarchiv.de
Full access within the university network.
Remote access can be acquired at our Picture Service desk.
JSTOR
www.jstor.org
Full access within the university network.
Remote access via the "Find your institution" function: Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
Registration is possible with the personally assigned login for all members of the university.
Bloomsbury Digital Fashion Masterclasses
www.bloomsburyfashioncentral.com/bloomsbury-digital-fashion-masterclasses
The video masterclasses and associated case studies cover topics such as phygital design, sustainability, marketing, merchandising, supply chain management and ethics.
Bloomsbury Historic Dress in Detail
www.bloomsburyfashioncentral.com/bloomsbury-historic-dress-in-detail
Bloomsbury Historic Dress in Detail includes videos with complementary resources and essays exploring the historical context and materials, fastenings and details, how garments were made and how they were worn.
The DFG promotes free access to databases and other digital sources through the National Licenses programme. Individuals can also register for it. http://www.nationallizenzen.de/anmeldung
ARTbibliographies Modern Archive
http://search.proquest.com/artbibliographies
Periodicals Index Online (PIO)
http://search.proquest.com/pio
America's Historical Newspapers
http://infoweb.newsbank.com
Cambridge Journals Digital Archive
https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/journals
U.S. Intelligence on Europe 1945-1995 http://primarysources.brillonline.com/browse/us-intelligence-on-europe
British Periodicals Collection I + II
http://search.proquest.com/britishperiodicals
Image-Based Similarity Search of the Bavarian State Library
https://bildsuche.digitale-sammlungen.de/
PhilPapers
https://philpapers.org/
A very comprehensive bibliography on philosophy, in which entries are made by the specialist community . It has currently about 2.3 million entries.
Parts of the historic book stock of the HfBK Dresden library were digitised as part of the state digitisation programme and are now available via Sachsen.digital (a service provided by the SLUB Dresden) and can be searched in full text: https://sachsen.digital/alle-sammlungen/historischer-bestand-der-bibliothek-der-hochschule-fuer-bildende-kuenste-dresden/listenansicht/. All digitised books are also available in the online catalogue of the library.
Downloads (documents in German)
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Bestellformular für Bücher(pdf, 271 KB)
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Formular für Magazinbestellungen(pdf, 16 KB)
Downloads (documents in German)
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Informationen zum Online-Portal Finc(pdf, 297 KB)
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Hausordnung der HfBK Dresden(pdf, 25 KB)
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Benutzungsordnung(pdf, 205 KB)
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Informationen zum Online-Katalog OPAC(pdf, 364 KB)
Returning media outside library opening hours
Borrowed items can also be returned outside our library opening hours. You can drop off your items in the return box installed directly in front of the library entrance.
Interlibrary loan
The library provides the option of interlibrary loans. Users can order books and articles from other libraries. This service is free of charge. Fees will be charged only for ordering copies via interlibrary loan (see schedule of fees).
After the Academy of Fine Arts was re-established, modest funds for purchasing books for the Architecture Department were first made available in 1768. The first recorded significant acquisition of the academy library is from 1814 when it acquired the library of Oberlandmeister Johann Gottlob Hauptmann, who had passed away in the previous year. With the construction of a new academy building at the Brühlsche Terrasse by Constantin Lipsius, the library was set up in the space next to the Oktogon. Acquisitions became systematic after 1830.
During the bombing of Dresden on the 13th February 1945, most of the art academy’s library stock, which originally included 12,000 volumes, fell victim to flames along with the old library rooms. With the merger of the Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Applied Arts into the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden in 1950, the libraries of both institutions were also merged. On the initiative of Professor Balzer, some of the old stock of the School of Applied Arts – which became the University of Applied Arts after 1945 – formed the basic stock of the central Kunstbibliothek of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen. The university library commenced its work with a stock of 6,413 volumes.
With approximately 55,000 media and 112 journal titles, the HfBK facility, which has been operated as a reference library for some time now, are available to members of the university as well as to interested external visitors. The thematic focus of the acquisitions is orientated on the content of the education and courses offered by the HfBK. As a result, library users can refer to a differentiated and constantly updated inventory of media on the subjects of art history, media art, painting/graphics/sculpture, architecture, restoration, philosophy, costume design and stage setting.
The inventory of the library, ranging from exhibition catalogues and extensive dictionaries to audio-visual media, is predominantly an open-access collection. The Media Centre that is being developed provides the technical equipment required for using new media and also has its own media collection, which mainly comprises of artist portraits and art documentation, recordings of performances from different areas of the performing arts, and documentation of in-house projects, conferences and courses. A subject-related classification of the inventory is provided via the online catalogue. It can be accessed internally from the PC workstations in the library, as well as externally via the university's website.
Media Centre
The HfBK Media Centre is a non-public facility. It is used by the faculty and students of the university for study and research purposes; interested external users can view the AV media at designated viewing work stations.
The collection of the Media Centre focuses on the topics of theatre, film, fine arts, art technology, restoration and art therapy. The inventory mainly comprises of:
- artist‘s monographs and art documentation
- recordings of performances from the different areas of the performing arts
- documentation of in-house projects, conferences and courses
Search
The Media Centre inventory includes acquired original media and television recordings. Both types of media can be found in the following inventory lists.
Please use the search function of your browser for a keyword search.
You can also look for original media in the catalogue of the university library (OPAC) or in the expanded online catalogue (FINC).
Please note that cross-category media is listed in one section only (e.g., filmed stage plays, documentary feature films, etc.). Library regulations apply.
Büttner, Harald
Media Centre / Equipment for events / Laboratory Theatre
Güntzstr. 34 |
Room 104 (in the library) |
Picture Service
Are you preparing a presentation or writing a term paper, but you cannot find good pictures? The Bildstelle (Picture Service) in room 104, Güntzstraße 34, offers you a steadily growing collection of images of artworks by artists, or scans images you may need for you personally. Bring us the publications containing the images you require and fill in our order form. We will scan it for you and feed the images into the image database Prometheus. Get the images via USB stick (for short-term requests) or find your scans online at Prometheus.
We are open every Monday from 10:00 to 12:00
You will find us in room 104 at Güntzstraße 34
Or send an e-mail to: bildstelle@hfbk-dresden.de
Or ring us: 0351 44022129
Büttner, Harald
Media Centre / Equipment for events / Laboratory Theatre
Güntzstr. 34 |
Room 104 (in the library) |
Picture Service, Selin Acarbaş
Güntzstr. 34 |
Raum Nr. 104 |
