Viennese art school

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The Vienna Art School is a private school with public rights and operates in public under kunstschule.wien . The school maintainer is the Vienna Art School Association .

The Vienna Art School offers the study of fine art with individual focus in curricula structured by semesters. The course is divided into the orientation year (1st section) and the second section.

The Vienna Art School is a training and further education center for fine and applied arts. Everyone over the age of 16 is entitled to enroll at the Vienna Art School. The director of the art school can also allow exceptions in justified individual cases. A preliminary talk with the legal guardian is compulsory for underage students. Sufficient knowledge of German or English is a prerequisite for foreign students. The study of fine art lasts six semesters and is concluded with a diploma. The following major subjects are offered: animation & experimental film, sculpture, comics, design and space, printmaking, graphic design, painting & process and ceramics.

history

In 1946/47 Gerda Matejka-Felden founded the Artistic Adult Education Association together with Karl Lugmayer and Leopold Langhammer . This was conceived as a technical school to prepare the master classes for artistic professions. The school's premises were initially in the basement of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna . Matejka-Felden wanted to make art accessible to broader circles of the population and to make it possible for those applicants to the art academy who were not accepted by the examination board for a regular course of study.

As early as 1950, the program of the Artistic Adult Education Center consisted of twenty-three courses. In 1954 Gerda Matejka-Felden founded the Vienna Art School, which was initially run as a private school. In 1963 the art school moved to the same premises as the artistic adult education center in Lazarettgasse, which is now part of the organization of the Association of Viennese Adult Education . The Vienna Art School, which was initially run as a purely private school, was granted public rights in 1965. She remained administratively and financially closely connected to the Artistic Adult Education Center. There was no curriculum in today's sense, and selected courses at the Vienna Adult Education Center were also offered for art students. Tensions arose due to different tasks of the two clubs. The Federal Ministry of Education, threatening to withdraw public rights, urged the school-maintaining association to reform. This should contain the organizational statute, the curricula and the examination regulations.

In 1989 Günter Povaly took over the management of the Vienna Art School and initiated the necessary reforms. The separation of the courses at the art school from the courses at the Artistic Adult Education Center was the most important innovation. An orientation year was introduced, which was coupled with a committee examination for the second stage of study. The management of the workshops, which were still used by both the art school and the artistic adult education center, was divided between two teachers with equal rights. The overall reform in 1994 led to the confirmation of the public right.

In 1994, the Vienna City Council decided to extend the roof and provide annual subsidies of around 40% of the school budget. In doing so, he laid the financial and spatial basis for maintaining the Vienna Art School. Tuition fees were to be paid. The Vienna Art School was sponsored by the City of Vienna's Magistrate , Department MA 13 (Education).

At the end of 2014, the Viennese art school finally ceased operations. The reason for this were insurmountable differences with the City of Vienna, which provided the majority of the financial support. After a restructuring phase, the new Vienna Art School resumed teaching in autumn 2015 in the artistic adult education center in Lazarettgasse in the 9th district and in Sandleitenhof in Ottakring . The Vienna Art School cooperates with the Soho cultural and district initiative in Ottakring. As of 2015, the Vienna Art School received project-related funding from the Federal Chancellery, the Federal Chancellery, Art Section and the City of Vienna's Department of Culture.

Directors

Günter Povaly was director from 1989 to 1998, and Gerhard Hermanky from 1999 to 2012. Then Daniela Schmeiser took over from the beginning of the year until November 2012. Until June 2013, Eliane Huber-Irikawa headed the Vienna Art School on an interim basis. From October 2013 to June 2014 Nicoletta Blacher was director of the Vienna Art School. From November 2015 Gerlinde Thuma took over the management.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography of Gerda Matejka-Felden on the website of the University of Vienna
  2. ^ Wiener Kunstschule locks in Die Presse, November 26, 2013, accessed on February 23, 2015
  3. ↑ Contact persons. (No longer available online.) In: kunstschule.wien. Archived from the original on February 15, 2016 ; accessed on February 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kunstschule.wien