Art Academy of Latvia

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The Latvian Art Academy (Lat .: Latvijas Mākslas akadēmija ) is an autonomous art school in Riga with the right to develop its own constitution and study programs. Professor Aleksejs Naumovs has been the director since 2007 .

program

The academy offers five courses of study:

  • Visual art with painting, graphics, textile art
  • Visual plastic art - sculpture, ceramics, glass art
  • Design - functional design, metal design, environmental art, fashion art
  • Audiovisual media art - visual communication, scenography
  • Art history - visual art and cultural history and theory, restoration

history

On August 20, 1919, the Latvian Art Academy was founded by a resolution of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Latvia and Vilhelms Purvītis was appointed director. In 1921 the training began with seven master schools. The first constitution of the academy was adopted and passed by parliament in 1924 . During the Second World War and the post-war period, training at the academy could be continued. From 1973 to 1988 the school was named Teodora Zaļkalna LPSR Valsts Mākslas akadēmija ( German  State Art Academy of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic Teodors Zaļkalns ). After Latvia's renewed independence in 1990 , attempts were made to find a balance between the traditional handicraft orientation and an adaptation to the more recent developments in the western world.

building

In 1919 Purvītis had chosen the then stock exchange commercial school as a teaching building. The building on the esplanade at Todleben-Boulevard 13 (today Kalpaka bulvāris 13) was designed by Wilhelm Bockslaff . It was the seat of several German-speaking schools until 1919/1920. After lengthy and tough negotiations with the owners, however, no contract was concluded, so the academy was housed in a former secondary school on Kronwald Boulevard 1 until 1940. After the Soviet occupation of Latvia, it was finally possible to move into the originally planned building on the esplanade next to the art museum , where it is still located today. The neo-Gothic building has a brick facade that also reflects the internal structure of the building. The interior design contains elements of Art Nouveau , including glass windows by Ernst Friedrich Tode . Interiors that were modified during the Soviet era are currently being restored to their original state.

Teacher

Alumni

literature

  • Indulis Zariņš: Latvijas PSR Valsts Mākslas Akadēmija. Liesma, Rīga 1969.

Web links

Commons : Latvian Academy of Arts  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c website of the academy
  2. Latvian Radio, November 27, 2017
  3. ^ Jānis Krastiņš: Wilhelm Bockslaff . In: Aina Balaško (ed.): German architects in Latvia . Latvijas Vācu Savienība, Riga 2013, ISBN 978-9984-49-671-9 , pp. 163–172, here p. 165.
  4. Raimonds Zalcmanis, Bruno Pētersons, Inta Pētersone, Inta Sīpola: Rīgas ielas enciklopēdija , Volume 3, page 291. Valsts kultūrkapitāla fonds, Rīgā 2009 ISBN 978-9984-798-86-8 .
  5. Tatjana Kačalova: vilhelms purvītis. Reprodukciju albums . Liesma, Riga 1971, p. 93.

Coordinates: 56 ° 57 ′ 16.8 ″  N , 24 ° 6 ′ 41.8 ″  E