In 1781 the "Karlsschule" was raised by Emperor Joseph II to university status under the name "Karls Hohe Schule". At the local art department, whose lessons temporary were also attended by Friedrich Schiller, artists such as Johann Heinrich von Dannecker, Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch, Joseph Anton Koch, Gottlieb Schick found their education with court painters such as Nicolas Guibal and Adolf Friedrich Harper, professors, who had already taught at the "Académie des Arts". Unique was the print workshop, founded in 1776 under the copper engraver Johann Gotthard von Müller. After the death of Duke Charles Eugene (1793), the "Hohe Karlsschule" was disbanded in 1794 by his brother and successor Louis Eugene, Duke of Württemberg. Thus Württemberg lost its only state art training center. After 35 years, in 1829, King William I of Württemberg founded an art school in Stuttgart, but initially in conjunction with other educational institutions ("Vereinigte Kunst-, Real- und Gewerbe-Schule"). From humble beginnings, separated in 1832 from the other institutions, the ″Royal art school″ ("Königliche Kunstschule") gradually developed as a training center, which received under the direction of Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth in 1901 the title ″Royal academy of fine arts″ ("Königliche Akademie der bildenden Künste", after 1918 "Württembergische Akademie der bildenden Künste"). Under the Nazi regime, in 1941, the academy was organically linked with the School of Applied Arts ("Württembergische Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule", founded in Stuttgart in 1869) under the name "Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart" (State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart), with each institution retaining its previous location. After World War II, the institution maintained this name when it was reconstituted in 1946 from Theodor Heuss, the first Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs in the state of Württemberg-Baden, with free and applied disciplines. At that time, as her own buildings in downtown Stuttgart ("Urbanstraße 37/39") had been destroyed during air raids in 1943 and 1944, the academy moved into the building of the former School of Applied Arts, built on the Weißenhof in 1913 under the direction of Bernhard Pankok.