Vilnius Art Academy

Vilnius Art Academy
founding	1793
Sponsorship	state
place	Vilnius , Lithuania
Rector	Ieva Skauronė
Website	www.vda.lt

Vilnius Art Academy building

The Vilnius Art Academy ( lit .: Vilniaus dailės akademija), based in Vilnius, is the most important art school in Lithuania , a university college. The head office is located in the old town of Vilnius .

history

The Art Academy traces its foundation back to the Vilnius University's architecture faculty , which opened in 1793 . By 1832 , departments for the entire spectrum of the visual arts were gradually built up: painting and drawing (1797), sculpture and art history (1803), engraving and graphics (1805).

In 1940 the academy was spun off from the university. Closed during the German occupation of Lithuania, it was reopened in 1944. The Vilnius Art Academy played and continues to play an important role in the preservation of monuments in Lithuania.

structure

• Faculty of Kaunas
• Faculty of Klaipėda
• Telšiai Faculty
• Faculty of Vilnius

students

• Chaim Soutine (1893–1943), Lithuanian-French painter
• Jacques Lipchitz (1891–1973), French artist
• Michel Kikoïne (1892–1968), Belarusian-Russian-French painter
• Emmanuel Mané-Katz (1894–1962), Russian-French painter and illustrator
• Mark Matwejewitsch Antokolski (1843–1902), Russian sculptor
• Józef Bałzukiewicz (1867–1915), Polish painter

Honorary doctorate

• Stasys Eidrigevičius (2009)
• Vytautas Landsbergis (2003)
• Paul Uwe Dreyer (2000)
• Vytautas Kazimieras Jonynas (1996)
• Vytautas Kašuba (1994)
• Kazys Varnelis (1993)
• Vladas Drėma (1992)

Honorary professor

• Algirdas Petrulis (2005)
• Juozas Balčikonis (2003)
• Algimantas Švėgžda (1996)
• Feliksas Daukantas (1995)
• Liudvikas Strolis (1995)
• Petras Aleksandravičius (1995)
• Antanas Tamošaitis (1995)

Web links

Commons : Vilnius Art Academy  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Vilnius Art Academy
• Museum of the Vilnius Art Academy (in German)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Articles of Association

Coordinates: 54 ° 41 ′ 2.1 ″  N , 25 ° 17 ′ 34.5 ″  E