What are the entrance requirements?

You need:

• Abitur, Fachabitur (an equivalent qualification for university entrance, e.g., A levels, high school diploma)
• For Art History as a major: Knowledge of two foreign languages (can be made up until the end of the second semester)

This is what you should already possess or want to learn/know/be able to do:

A keen interest in artworks, museum visits, field trips…

An interest in the meaning, historic classification and contextualisation of artworks and buildings as well as in artistic and art historical phenomena

Enjoy research and ‘detective work’ with artworks and written sources

A sense for shapes, colours, design and a good visual memory

Good verbal skills to be able to formulate observations and analyses

Enjoy books and reading – even in the digital age