Academy of Fine Arts Prague

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Academy výtvarných
umění v Praze
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founding (1799) 1926
Sponsorship state
place Prague , Czech Republic
Rector Tomáš Vaněk
Students 317 (2008)
Website www.avu.cz

The Academy of Fine Arts Prague ( Czech Academy výtvarných umění v Praze (AVU); English Academy of Fine Arts Prague ) is a university college of fine arts in Prague .

history

Main building of the Academy of Fine Arts

The Academy of Fine Arts (AVU) in Prague is the very first art school in the Czech lands . The academy was founded on the initiative of the “Society of Patriotic Art Friends” by an imperial decree of October 10, 1799, and began its activities in 1800 the following year.

Gradually the school developed in the direction of romantic painting, landscape painting and later historical painting . In 1896, when the school was nationalized, its spectrum expanded to include sculpture and later architecture and graphics. In 1926 the academy was the first in Czechoslovakia to receive the status of an art college. The architecture school founded by Jan Kotěra represents an important chapter in the history of the academy, which is also important in the European context. In 1947 Bohuslav Slánský founded the restoration school. Due to its methods, this is of European importance to this day.

František Kupka , a professor at the Prague Academy based in Paris, presented the historical European commitment. He was paid by Prague and had the task of looking after the Czech scholarship holders in Paris.

The art academy now has studios that specialize in painting, graphics, sculpture, architecture, restoration art and media.

Studios

painting

  • Painting class I - Jiří Sopko
  • Painting class II - Vladimír Skrepl
  • Painting class III - Michael Rittstein
  • Painting techniques - Zdeněk Beran

Drawing and graphics

  • Drawing class I - Jitka Svobodová
  • Drawing and graphics class II - Jiří Lindovský
  • Drawing and graphics class III - Vladimír Kokolia

Sculpture and Sculpture

Franz Kafka statue in Prague by Jaroslav Róna
  • Sculpture class I - Jaroslav Róna
  • Sculpture class II - Jindřich Zeithamml
  • Sculpture and metal class III - Jan Hendrych

media

  • Media Studies Class I - Milan Knížák
  • Class II conception - Miloš Šejn
  • Monument protection class III - Jiří Příhoda

new media

restoration

  • Restoration of picture class I - Karel Stretti
  • Restoration of sculpture class II - Petr Siegl

architecture

  • Architecture class - Emil Přikryl

act

  • Life drawing / figurative representation - Peter Oriešek

Well-known professors

Well-known graduates

See also

Web links

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