Saint-Luc Institute

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The Institut Saint-Luc (officially: École Supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc ) in Brussels is one of the 16 art schools (Écoles Supérieures des Arts) in the French community of Belgium . It was founded in 1904 as an arts and crafts school. There are other Saint Luc universities in Liège , Tournai and Mons as well as in France and the Democratic Republic of the Congo .

The institute is part of the Catholic education system. The courses of study include the liberal and applied fine arts as well as architecture and conclude with a Bachelor (formerly a graduate ) and master’s degree . In cooperation with the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), following a Master à finalité approfondie, a doctorate program Doctorat en art et sciences de l'art can be started, in which a scientific dissertation is developed in connection with an artistic project. Starting in September 2006, the Saint-Luc Institute, in cooperation with the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, will be offering an advanced level teacher training program ( Agrégation ).

The institute is internationally known in the field of comics , since at the end of the 1960s, at Hergé 's suggestion, it offered the world's first degree course in "comics" , which trained cartoonists and comic actors. Many prominent comic book authors emerged from this course , including Benoît Sokal , François Schuiten , Andréas , Philippe Francq , Anne Baltus , Yslaire and Philippe Foerster . François Schuiten himself was a professor at the Institut Saint-Luc for several years . The institute also has famous graduates in other areas, such as the painter Luc Tuymans and the director Benoît Poelvoorde .

Education

The institute's Atélier Bande Dessinée , along with that of the state École Supérieure de l'Image (College of Visual Media) in Angoulême , France , is still considered the most renowned comics department in the French-speaking world, although comics has long been introduced as a subject at numerous universities such as the one in Brussels Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts (Royal Academy of Fine Arts). In contrast to the university in Angoulême, studying at the Institut Saint-Luc has the reputation of being artistically freer and more experimental, but having too little practical relevance.

Professors Pierre Pourbaix, Marc Sevrin and Denis Larue are currently teaching the comic studio. After three years, the students graduate with the academic degree Bachelière or Bachelier en Arts plastiques, visuels et de l'espace - Bande dessinée (Bachelor of Fine, Visual and Spatial Arts - Comics). Prerequisites for the course are the Abitur and the passing of a multi-day selection process with artistic-creative and theoretical (general art-scientific ) exams. In German-speaking exist ERASMUS Partnerships with the University of Art and Design Lucerne , the Department of Design of the University of Darmstadt and the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg as well as the course of Digital Media University of Bremen .

At the Flemish sister university, Sint-Lukas Hogeschool, there is also a comics course (ndl. Beeldverhaal ), which leads to a Bachelor of Arts in "Graphic and Publicity Design" and a Master of Arts in "Fine Arts" after three or four years can be.

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