Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague
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The Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Czech Vysoká škola umělecko - průmyslová ( VŠUP ) in Prague is a University of Fine Arts.
History
1885-1939
1885, the " School of Applied Arts " ( Uměleckoprůmyslová škola, UPS ) was founded in Prague in the sense of Gottfried Semper, the only national art school in Bohemia. 1882-1885 was the new school of František Schmoranz Younger and Jan Machytka built; a wing used the UPS - the other the Art Academy in Prague.
The School of Applied Arts was first divided into an undergraduate three -year degree to which three - to five -year postgraduate degree in the art architecture, sculpture, painting, drawing and graphics, metalworking, woodworking, flower painting, ceramics followed by an.
Founding director was the architect František Schmoranz with the professors František Ženíšek (1885-1896), Josef Václav Myslbek (1885-1896), Jacob Schikaneder (1885-1923), Celda Klouček (1887-1917), Felix Jenewein (1890-1902) and Friedrich Ohmann ( 1888-1898 ). Art history was, inter alia, taught by Otakar Hostinský (1885-1893) and Karel B. Mádl ( 1886-1916 ). The first graduates of the UPS January Preisler, Stanislav Suchardas, Josef Mařatka, Vojtěch Preissig, František Kobliha, Bohumil Kafka and Julius Mařák.
With the nationalization of the Prague Academy of Arts in 1896, the Arts and Crafts School lost its unique status so far and most of the professors. With the architect Jiří Stibral (1886-1920), she found a new prominent scholars in the field of applied arts. With the new professoriate Stanislav Suchardas Jan Preisler, V. Karel Masek, Alois Dryák, Ladislav Šaloun and in particular, Jan Kotěra. Kotera had taken significant impact on the realignment and established the school as an international discussion forum of the Art Nouveau movement.
1900 took over the UPS representation of Czech art at the World Exhibition in Paris. The UPS won the Grand Prix here. Beginning of the 20th century, the school in the Czech Cubism was a focal point of the avant-garde with names like Josef Čapek, Václav Beneš, Josef Gočár, František Kysela, Bohumil Kubišta, Otakar Novotný, Linka Procházková Jan Zrzavý, Václav Špála, Josef Šíma, Emilie Paličková, Jaroslav Rössler and Pravoslav Kotík.
After the official founding of Czechoslovakia in 1918, the school was reformed. In the 1920s, among others taught Pavel Janak, František Kysela, Jaroslav Horejc, Vratislav H. Brunner and Helena Johnová and art historians such as Antonín Matějček, Václav V. Štech and Jaromír Pečírka. These professors had taken significant impact on the profile of the school, and in particular the Art Nouveau - orientation. Most students and teachers developed a special Art Deco style, which became known abroad.
In the late 1920s they turned under the influence of the German Bauhaus constructivism and functionalism. The driving force at the college was Otakar Novotný and Jan Bauch, Cyril Bouda, Karel Černý, Toyen, František Foltýn, Ľudovít Fulla, Mikuláš Galanda, František Gross, František Hudeček, Kaplický Václav Antonín Kybal, Zdenek Sklenar, Karel Souček, Ladislav Sutnar, Karel Svolinský, Jiří Trnka and Ladislav Zívr.
After the invasion of Germany in 1939, the Arts and Crafts School was merged with the Prague Academy of Arts.
1946-1989
1946, the school was re-established with the status of a university and that the terms " School of Crafts " ( Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová, VŠUP ). The new school set up in 1947, the departments of architecture, painting, graphic design, textile and fashion design, sculpture and porcelain and ceramic design one.
After the Communist takeover in February 1948, the framework for the new academy changed dramatically. Due to government regulations was now explicitly the doctrine of Socialist Realism provides, inter alia, by Adolf Hoffmeister and arsenic Pohribný. Graduates of this time were Věra Janoušková, Hermína Melicharová, Čestmír Kafka, Milan Grygar, Stanislav Kolíbal, Stanislav Libeňský, Zdeněk pAlcR, Adriena Šimotová that Válová sisters, Jiří John, Eva Kmentová, Kveta Pacovská, Olbram Zoubek, Vladimír Kopecký, Jiří Balcar or René Roubíček. The Academy won during this period the price for the Czech pavilion at the Brussels Expo 58
In the 1960s, the Academy was reorganized again. The study duration was set at six years with the goal of a free artistic self-expression. It was incorporated an industrial design department, the former art school in Zlín.
In the 1970s, the Academy fell into a crisis due to the political developments in Czechoslovakia. Major professors František Muzika, Adolf Hoffmeister, Antonín Kybal, Karel Jiří Trnka Svolinský and left the school. Under the leadership of Jan Simota the Academy between 1973-1985 was performed according to the political phrases of the state. Under this influence was 1985, the 100 - year celebration instead. The course of the Academy was continued from 1985 by Jan Mikula in the sense of its predecessor.
Organization
In 1989, the Academy was reorganized under the new Rector Josef Hlavacek. Together with Zdeněk Ziegler and Jiří Pelcl the present face of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design Prague was coined. The Academy is now involved in numerous international networks and presents with six faculties and 23 studios in the fields of architecture, design, lifestyle design, fine arts and graphic design support through art history and aesthetics, dar.
2006 Pavel Liska Rector of the Academy.
The study programs lead after six years to become a master's degree. Postgraduate studies lead after two years to become a master in art history, design theory and new media. Three - to five- year-old doctoral programs with PhD degree are offered in the four fields of Architecture and Design, graphic and visual communication, free and applied art as well as in exhibition management and design criticism.