Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture

The Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Russian Московское училище живописи, ваяния и зодчества, next to the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts was one of the leading institutions for the training of artists in pre-revolutionary Russia.

The history of the university dates back to the 1832 back when JE Makowski, AS Dobrowolski, WS Dobrowolski and AS Jastrebilow called a natural class to life in Moscow - an artistic circle of the artists offered the opportunity to perfect himself in drawing and painting. Soon this district was designated the artist class and place in the year 1843, the transformation in the School of Painting and Sculpture of the Moscow Art Society.

In 1865 the facility was housed in the Moscow School of Architecture, after which the name was chosen in School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.

Graduates of the University had virtually the same status as the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. In 1896, the facility was officially transformed into an institution of higher education with general education and art departments. The training was for painters and sculptors eight years as architects 10 years. Since 1915, the university was within the competence of the Ministry of Trade and Industry.

Studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and / or taught in the course of time, various artists, such as Abram Arkhipov, Konstantin Korovin, Sergei Korovin, Isaak Levitan, Konstantin Makovsky, Vladimir Makovsky, Vasily Perov, Antoine Pevsner Thomas Bogdanovich - Dworschetski, Alexander Pomeranzew, Illarion Prjanischnikow, Alexei Sawrassow, Vasily Polenov, Mikhail Nesterov, Valentin Serov, Vasnetsov Apollinari, Vasily Tropinin, Leonid Pasternak and Stanisław Żukowski.

1918, the college was transformed into the Second State Free Art department, to thereafter in the Moscow Surikov Art Institute, named after Vasily Ivanovich Surikov ( Московский Художественный Институт имени Сурикова ) and the Moscow Architecture Institute ( Московский Архитектурный Институт ) to be divided.

Compared to the Petersburg Academy of Arts, the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture was organized democratic and played a major role in the development of realistic art of Russia in the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.

  • College of Fine Arts
  • Former University
  • University in Moscow
  • Art School in Russia
Isaac Levitan Alexander Pomerantsev Illarion Pryanishnikov Alexei Savrasov Apollinary Vasnetsov
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