Academy of Fine Arts, Prague

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The Academy of Fine Arts, Prague ( Czech Academy výtvarných umění v Praze ( AVU ), English Academy of Fine Arts Prague) is a university College of Fine Arts in Prague.

History

The Academy of Fine Arts ( AVU ) in Prague is the first art school in the Czech lands at all. The Academy was founded on the initiative of the "Society Patriotic Art Buddies" by an imperial decree of 10 October 1799 adopted the following year in 1800 its business to.

Gradually, the school has towards romantic painting, landscape painting, and later expanded to the historical paintings.

1896, when the school was nationalized, its range extended to the sculpture and later to architecture and graphics. In 1926 received the Academy as the first in Czechoslovakia, the status of an art school. The architecture school founded by Jan Kotera represents an important chapter in the history of the Academy, which is also in the European context is important. 1947 was founded by Bohuslav Slansky the restoration school. This is due to their methods today of European importance.

František Kupka, a professor of the Prague Academy, headquartered in Paris, the historic European commitment dar. He was paid from Prague and had the task to take care of the Czech fellows in Paris.

The Prague Academy of Arts has today studios, specializing in painting, graphics, sculpture, architecture, restoration and art media.

Studios

Painting

  • Painting class I - Jiří Sopko
  • Painting Class II - Vladimír Skrepl
  • Painting Class III - Michael Rittstein
  • Painting techniques - Zdeněk Beran

Drawing and Graphics

  • Drawing Class I - Jitka Svobodová
  • Drawing and Graphics class II - Jiří Lindovský
  • Drawing and Graphics Class III - Vladimír Kokolia

Sculpture and Carving

  • Sculpture Class I - Jaroslav Rona
  • Sculpture Class II - Jindřich Zeithamml
  • Sculpture and metal class III JAN - Hendrych

Media

  • Media Studies class I - Milan Knížák
  • Concept Class II - Miloš Sejn
  • Monument protection class III - Jiří Příhoda

New Media

  • New Media class I - Michael Bielický
  • New Media Class II - Veronika Bromová

Restoration

  • Image Restoration Class I - Karel Stretti
  • Restoration Sculpture Class II - Petr Siegl

Architecture

  • Architecture class - Emil Přikryl

Act

  • Life Drawing / figurative representation - Peter Oriešek

Well-known professors

  • Joseph Bergler (1753-1829), German sculptor and painter, first director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague
  • Bohuslav Fuchs (1895-1972), Moravian architect with international influence
  • Kadlik Franz (1786-1840), Czech painter
  • Johann Gottfried Good Son (1792-1851), German architect
  • Max Haushofer (1811-1866), German landscape painter
  • Leopold Rottmann (1812-1881), German landscape painter
  • Eduard von Engert (1818-1897), Austrian painter, director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague 1854-1865
  • Jan Swerts (1820-1879), Belgian painter, director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague from 1874-1879
  • Josef Matyas Trenkwald (1824-1897), German painter
  • Julius Mařák (1832-1899), Czech landscape painter
  • Alfred Woltmann (1841-1880), German art historian
  • Emil Lauffer (1837-1909), painter, director of the Academy of Fine Arts Prague
  • Jakub Husnik (1837-1916), Czech painter
  • Vojtěch Hynais (1854-1925), Czech painter and graphic artist
  • , Jan Kotěra (1871-1923), Czech architect and designer, founder of the architecture class
  • František Kupka (1871-1957), Czech painter
  • Willi Nowak (1886-1977), Czech painter and graphic artist
  • Bohuslav Slansky (1900-1980), Czech painter and restorer, founder of the School of Restoration
  • Stanislav Kolibal ( born 1925 ), Czech sculptor
  • Milan Knížák ( born 1940 ), Czech media expert
  • Miloš Sejn ( b. 1947 ), Czech media artist
  • Michael Bielicky (born 1954 ), Czech- German media artist, 1991 Foundation Lecturer Department of New Media
  • Vladimír Kokolia ( born 1956 ), Czech painter

Known graduates

  • Jacob Ginzel (1792-1862), Czech painter
  • August Kopisch (1799-1853), German painter and writer
  • Joseph of Fiihrich (1800-1876), Austrian painter, a professor at the Vienna Academy
  • Arthur von Ramberg (1819-1875), Austrian painter and draftsman
  • Johann Kautsky (1827-1896), Swedish stage and landscape painter
  • Jan Matejko (1838-1893), Polish painter
  • Gabriel von Max (1840-1915), German history painter, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich
  • Aleš (1852-1913), Czech painter and illustrator
  • Václav Jansa (1859-1913), Czech painter
  • Viktor Oliva (1861-1928), Czech painter and graphic artist
  • Bohuslav Dvořák (1867-1951), Czech painter
  • Rihard Jakopie (1869-1943), Slovak impressionist painter and art theorist
  • Richard Teschner (1879-1948), Austrian artist
  • Hugo Steiner-Prag (1880-1945), Austrian- German painter and illustrator
  • Max Oppenheimer (1885-1954), Austrian painter
  • Franz Rudolf Vanka (1908-1976), German painter
  • January Zrzavý (1890-1977), Czech painter, graphic artist, illustrator
  • Koloman Sokol (1902-2003), Slovak artist, Professor in Mexico, USA, Slovakia
  • Gearfried Schell Berger (1918-2008), German painter and author
  • Miroslav Tichý (1926-2011), Czech photographer and painter
  • Yehuda Bacon ( born 1929 ), Israeli visual artist, professor in Jerusalem, London, New York
  • Vladimír Suchánek, Czech stamp artist
  • Aleš Vesely ( born 1935 ), Czech artists
  • Milan Kunc ( b. 1944 ), Czech painter
  • Norvin weavers (* 1966), German sculptor and graphic artist
  • Emil Kotrba (1912-1983), painter, graphic artist and illustrator
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