University of Arts Tirana

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Universiteti i Arteve
founding 1966
Sponsorship state
place Tirana
country Albania
Rector Petrit Malaj
Students about 1000
Website www.artacademy.al
The main building on a photo from 2008

The University of the Arts ( Albanian  Universiteti i Arteve ) in Albania's capital Tirana is a public university of arts . As the most important art school in the country, it was attended by almost all trained Albanian artists, insofar as they did not study abroad. Until April 2011 it was called Akademie der Künste ( Albanian  Akademia e Arteve ).

Organization and facilities

The University of the Arts has three faculties: Music , Fine Arts and Theater . It currently has almost 1,000 students and not quite 400 lecturers .

The university campus has a theater hall and various lecture rooms.

The affiliated Scientific Library of the University of the Arts (Biblioteka Shkencore e Universitetit të Arteve) founded in 1966 is the largest and most important university library of the arts in Albania. It mainly offers specialist literature from art history , but also general literature. The current inventory is around 35,000 books (including digital literature), documents, catalogs, magazines, audio-visual materials, etc., including many unique items .

history

The college was founded in 1966 as the Higher Institute of Arts (Institut i Lartë i Arteve) , the State Conservatory of Tirana (Conservatori Shtetëror i Tiranës) , the School of Fine Arts (Shkolla e Arteve të Bukura) and the Drama School Aleksander Moisiu ( Shkolla e Lartë e Aktorëve Aleksander Moisiu ) were merged.

Through an educational reform in 1990 the college was recognized as a university and renamed first to Akademia e Arteve and in April 2011 to Universiteti i Arteve .

Directors / Rectors

From its founding to the reorganization in 1990, the university was run by directors and since then by rectors.

Directors and Rectors of the University of the Arts
1966-1969  Vilson Kilica (born 1932) - painter
1969-1973 Tefik Çaushi - writer
1973-1978 Lili Zhamo
1978-1981 Ibrahim Madhi - violinist
1981-1988 Kristo Jorgji - director
1988-1991 Jakup Mato (1934–2005) - art critic
1991-1992 Fatmir Hysi - musicologist
1992-1995 Bujar Kapexhiu (born 1944) - director and film actor
1995-1997 Gjergj Zheji (1926-2010) - writer
1997-2008 Kastriot Çaushi (* 1954) - actor and professor of dramaturgy
2008-2016 Petrit Malaj (* 1961) - actor and professor of dramaturgy
2016– Kastriot Çaushi (* 1954) - actor and professor of dramaturgy

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Mirësevini në Universitetin e Arteve. Retrieved February 24, 2013 (Albanian).
  2. ↑ a b c d Welcome to the University of Arts. Retrieved February 24, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Vendim No. 234, dated 23 March 2011 për Krijimin e Universitetit të Arteve. (PDF; 55 kB) March 23, 2011, accessed on February 24, 2013 (Albanian).
  4. ^ Biblioteka e Universitetit te Arteve. Retrieved on February 25, 2013 (Albanian): “Në fondet e saj disponon materiale të shumëllojshme si libra, parte, dorëshkrime, dizertacione, diploma, periodike, referenca, materiale audiovizuale, literature elektronike, etj. Fondi i Bibliotekës së Universitetit te Arteve përmban rreth 35,000 vëllime. Pjesa më e madhe e fondit është unique. "


Coordinates: 41 ° 19 '4.4 "  N , 19 ° 49' 12.7"  E