Academy of Fine Arts Prague
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
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
- 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
- New media class I - Michael Bielický
- New media class II - Veronika Bromová
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
- Joseph Bergler (1753–1829), sculptor and painter, first director of the Prague Art Academy
- Bohuslav Fuchs (1895–1972), Moravian architect with international influence
- Franz Kadlik (1786–1840), Bohemian painter
- Johann Gottfried Gutensohn (1792–1851), German architect
- Max Haushofer (1811–1866), German landscape painter
- Leopold Rottmann (1812–1881), German landscape painter
- Eduard von Engert (1818–1897), Austrian painter, director of the Art Academy in Prague 1854–1865
- Jan Swerts (1820–1879), Belgian painter, director of the Prague Art Academy from 1874–1879
- Josef Matyáš Trenkwald (1824–1897), German painter
- Julius Mařák (1832–1899), Czech landscape painter
- Alfred Woltmann (1841–1880), German art historian
- Emil Lauffer (1837–1909), painter, director of the Prague Art Academy
- Jakub Husník (1837–1916), Czech painter
- Vojtěch Hynais (1854–1925), Czech painter and graphic artist
- Jan Kotěra (1871–1923), Czech architect and designer, founder of the architecture class
- František Kupka (1871–1957), Czech painter
- Willi Nowak (1886–1977), Czech painter and graphic artist
- Bohuslav Slánský (1900–1980), Czech painter and restorer, founder of the restoration school
- Stanislav Kolibal (* 1925), Czech sculptor
- Milan Knížák (* 1940), Czech action, sound and object artist
- Miloš Šejn (* 1947), Czech media artist
- Michael Bielicky (* 1954), Czech-German media artist, 1991 founding lecturer in the New Media department
- Vladimír Kokolia (* 1956), Czech painter
Well-known graduates
- Heinrich Schödl (1777–1838), Bohemian miniature painter
- Jakob Ginzel (1792–1862), Bohemian painter
- August Kopisch (1799–1853), German painter and writer
- Joseph von Führich (1800–1876), Austrian painter, professor at the Vienna Academy
- Arthur von Ramberg (1819–1875), Austrian painter and draftsman
- Johann Kautsky (1827–1896), Czech stage and landscape painter
- Jan Matejko (1838-1893), Polish painter
- Gabriel von Max (1840–1915), German history painter, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich
- Mikoláš Aleš (1852–1913), Czech painter and illustrator
- Václav Jansa (1859–1913), Czech painter
- Viktor Oliva (1861–1928), Czech painter and graphic artist
- Bohuslav Dvořák (1867–1951), Czech painter
- Rihard Jakopie (1869–1943), Slovak impressionist painter and art theorist
- Richard Teschner (1879–1948), Austrian artist
- Hugo Steiner-Prag (1880–1945), Austrian-German painter and illustrator
- Max Oppenheimer (1885–1954), Austrian painter
- Jan Zrzavý (1890–1977), Czech painter, graphic artist, illustrator
- Irma Lang-Scheer (1901–1986), academic painter
- Koloman Sokol (1902–2003), Slovak artist, professor in Mexico, USA, Slovakia
- Franz Rudolf Wanka (1908–1976), German painter
- Emil Kotrba (1912–1983), painter, graphic artist and draftsman
- Erhard Theodor Astler (1914–1998), painter, graphic artist and draftsman
- Peter Weiss (1916–1982), German writer, painter and graphic artist
- Gerfried Schellberger (1918–2008), German painter and author
- Miroslav Tichý (1926–2011), Czech photographer and painter
- Jehuda Bacon (* 1929), Israeli visual artist, professor in Jerusalem, London, New York
- Vladimír Suchánek (* 1933), Czech postage stamp artist
- Aleš Veselý (1935–2015), Czech artist
- Josef Žáček (* 1951), Czech painter
- Milan Kunc (* 1944), Czech painter
- Norvin Leineweber (* 1966), German sculptor and graphic artist
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague (Czech, English)