Stroganov Art School (official name - the Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry, abbreviated - MGHPA them. Stroganov) - one of the oldest educational institutions in Russia in the field of monumental and decorative, industrial, arts and crafts,as well as the art of the interior.
Better education
Currently MGHPA prepares artists for five specialties, seventeen specializations, including specialists in the development of furniture and decorative fabrics, furniture design and interiors, specialists in various fields of design, theorists and art historians, sculptors, paintersand restorers of monumental painting, painting on ceramics, metal and glass, metal and restorers of artistic furniture.This extensive range of specialties allows graduate work in all areas of artistic creativity and create the diversity of the objective world, which forms the human environment.During the existence of the Stroganov School has gained a lot of interesting pages of history.
How it all began
In 1825, Count Sergei Stroganov founded a training school in Moscow artists of applied and decorative arts.It will be important to say about democratic principles, which immediately laid Count: nutrition and training the students are free to the school accepted children of serfs and commoners, and the criteria for admission to the study were not privileged position of parents and their security, and the ability of coming to art and painting, gifted and talented.
school was designed for three hundred and sixty people, and in the initial stages were trained in three specializations: painting animals and figures;geometry, drawing, painting machines;painting ornaments and flowers.Already in 1830 was expanded - there was a class of printed technical drawing, then in the 1837th opened a class of modeling clay figures and ornaments.
In 1843, Count Stroganov Moscow handed school, and she became a public institution, received a new name - The second drawing school.And in 1860 it was transformed into the Stroganov School of Technical Drawing.
Features
educational process in educational institutions took children from the age of twelve, regardless of class.Training lasted for five years.The school was designed for two hundred fifty of them "poverty" could be exempted from the payment of educational materials.On graduation diploma issued "academic painter".Stroganov School in Moscow also included the women's section at the fifty students and Sunday drawing classes, where people of all classes and ages can learn the art of painting free of charge.Institutions are administered by the Department of Manufacture and Domestic Trade of the Ministry of Finance.
In 1901, Feb. 23, in honor of the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the institution received an official name - Central Stroganov School of Industrial Art - and a plot of land in the property (on Butcher Street).
VHUTEMAS and VHUTEIN
After the revolution in 1918, the Stroganov School was reorganized and incorporated into the VKhUTEMAS - State of free art workshops, and it, in turn, in 1928, transformed into VHUTEIN - MoscowHigher Art and Technical Institute.In 1930, he broke into several independent institutions:
- Art (now the MGAHI. Surikov);
- Architecture (now the Moscow Institute of Architecture);
- Textile (now the MSTU. Kosygin);
- Publishing (currently MGUP them. Fedorov).
New History
In 1945 Stroganov School was revived under the name of the Moscow Central School of Industrial Art (abbreviated - MTSHPU).In 1948 he was again renamed, changing the word "central" to "higher" (MVHPU).The school taught by such famous personalities as NN Sobolev, AV Kuprin, V. Egorov, VF Bordichenko, PV Kuznetsov, GI Motovilov and others.But in 1956, designed by the architect Zholtovsky opened the new building of the university on the Volokolamsk Highway 9. Stroganov School address this is to this day.
In 1960 began the reorganization MVHPU, there were three departments: interior and equipment, industrial arts, crafts and monumental and decorative art.Among similar universities MVHPU became head: developed model programs are used in other educational institutions of Russia such a profile.In 1992, the school once again converted, and now it became known as the Moscow Art and Industry Institute named after Stroganov.Since 1996, the name added the word "State", and from 2009 the word "university" to replace the word "academy".
School today
Now Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry acts as a well-organized institution, which meets all the requirements to ensure the quality level of training of graduates.Seminars and lectures are supplemented by the preparation of general academic departments conducted profiling departments.It focuses on practical creative work in the numerous workshops and classrooms.
For more information about the Stroganov School
- Official Site - mghpu.ru.
- Rector - Kurasov Sergey.
