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The publication Specialist School of Sculpture is dedicated to the history of the “sculptors’ castle” of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, which was initially conceived as just a provisional solution. The authors cover various subjects and events from the institution’s founding year. Topics include the conflictual period of planning, relocation and construction, the everyday work of the servants, the denial of admission for female students, the colonial interweaving of the adjoining Prater, and the daily routine of students in the first years: “Modeling clay in the morning, chiseling stone in the afternoon!”