Cracow State School of Applied Arts
The Cracow State School of Applied Arts was a trade school in Cracow established by the Government General in the building of the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts . It was closed on March 31, 1943.
The school was supposed to train Polish craftsmen in order to preserve the monuments of the city of Krakow. Thanks to Polish educators (including Stanisław Kamocki and Józef Mehoffer ), who continued the program of the closed academy here underground, it enabled future painters and sculptors, such as Jerzy Nowosielski and Tadeusz Brzozowski , to continue their training at the then re-established Academy of the Fine arts.
The School of Applied Arts had existed since March 1941 under the direction of Wilhelm Heerde , who, in addition to the Polish teachers, also employed Germans such as the sculptor Robert Bednorz , Walter Messmann from the Bauhaus and the head of the metal sculpture department Otto Beckmann .
The school was closed on March 31, 1943, two weeks after the defeat of Stalingrad . Wilhelm Heerde moved to Vienna , the other German professors were called up for military service.
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to Ryszard Stanisławski and Christoph Brockhaus, Europa, Europa. The century of the avant-garde in Central and Eastern Europe. Bonn, May 27th-16th October 1994, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany , Volume 4, Foundation Art and Culture of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Bonn 1994, p. 99
- ↑ according to Gerhard Haberta (Red.), IFAA (Ed.), Brzozowski Tadeusz , in: Lexikon der Fantastischen Künstler , ISBN 9783837084276 , Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, p. 85
Web links
- Józef Chrobak: School of Applied Arts 1939-1943 i Podziemny Teatr Niezależny Tadeusza Kantora w latach 1942-1944: Kraków: Ośrodek Dokumentacji Sztuki Tadeusza Kantora Cricoteka, 2007: ISBN 9788361213000
Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 58.5 ″ N , 19 ° 56 ′ 29.7 ″ E