Chelsea College of Arts

The Chelsea College of Art and Design is an art college in London's Chelsea, which belongs to the University of the Arts London and has emerged from the Chelsea School of Art. At the Chelsea College of Art and Design in particular subjects of fine art and applied art are taught. Students can degrees of Bachelor and Master and since award of PhD law and the Ph.D. purchase.

The Chelsea College of Art and Design was created from several London schools.

1895 in Chelsea, the South - Western Polytechnic founded on the primarily scientific and technical subjects in day and evening classes were taught. In addition, art, crafts and music were offered. The school was renamed in 1922 in Chelsea Polytechnic. From the late 1920s, the offer of artistic subjects was extended.

1908 was born from the union of the School of Art and the Hammersmith School of Art, Chelsea School of Art

In 1964, the Chelsea School of Art merged with the Faculty of Fine Arts Chelsea Polytechnic and founded a "new" Chelsea School of Art, which was integrated into the 1986 London Institute and renamed in 1989 in Chelsea College of Art and Design. In 2004, the London Institute to university status and was renamed University of the Arts London.

Known teachers

Known graduates

• John Berger ( born 1926 ), British writer, painter and art critic
• Rolf beer ( * 1960 ), German visual artist
• Quentin Blake ( born 1932 ), English cartoonist, illustrator and children's book author
• Delphine Boël ( b. 1968 ), Belgian artist
• Dirk Bogarde (1921-1999), British actor and writer
• Edward Burra (1905-1976), British painter
• Jane Campion (born 1954 ), New Zealand film director
• Anthony Caro (1924-2013), British sculptor of the modern
• Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), English painter, writer and playwright
• Peter Doig ( b. 1959 ), Scottish painter
• Ralph Fiennes (born 1962 ), British actor
• Sophie Fiennes (1967 ). British film director and producer -
• Oliver Grajewski (* 1968), German comic artist, visual artist and illustrator
• David Hockney ( b. 1937 ), British painter, printmaker, stage designer and photographer
• Mark Hosking (born 1971 ), English contemporary artists
• David Kenworthy, 11th Baron Strabolgi ( 1914-2010 ), British parliamentarians and politicians Culture
• Anish Kapoor (born 1954 ), Indian sculptor
• Steve McQueen (born 1969 ), British artist, photographer and director
• Mariko Mori (born 1967 ), Japanese multimedia artist
• David Nash ( born 1945 ), English sculptor and land art artists
• Paul Nash (1889-1946), English painter
• Mariele Neudecker (born 1965 ), German visual artist
• Chris Ofili ( b. 1968 ), British painter and sculptor
• Fiona Pitt- Kethley (born 1954 ), British poet, journalist and writer
• Alan Rickman ( born 1946 ), British actor and theater director
• Elizabeth Shaw (1920-1992), Irish graphic designer and children's book author
• Mark Wallinger ( born 1959 ), British artist
• Bill Woodrow ( born 1948 ), British sculptor and draftsman
• Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967), Belarusian- French painter and sculptor