Academy of Arts, Berlin
New members are nominated by secret ballot of the general assembly, and appointed by the president with membership never to exceed 500.Founded by the Hohenzollern elector Frederick III (King in Prussia from 1701), it was the third-oldest such academy in Europe.8 Unter den Linden, until from 1902 the site was cleared and rebuilt as seat of the Berlin State Library.The western successor organization was called the Akademie der Künste, founded in 1954 under President Hans Scharoun, which resided in the rebuilt Hansaviertel quarter of West Berlin.Its presidents included Arnold Zweig, Ludwig Renn, Johannes R. Becher, Otto Nagel, Willi Bredel, Konrad Wolf, Manfred Wekwerth, and Heiner Müller.
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