The Stroganov Art School (the official name is the Moscow State Art and Industry Academy named after S. G. Stroganov, abbreviated as Moscow State Art Academy named after Stroganov) is one of the oldest educational institutions in Russia in the field of monumental, decorative, industrial, applied art, as well as art the interior.
Better education
Currently, Moscow State Art Academy trains artists in five specialties, seventeen specializations, including specialists in the development of furniture and decorative fabrics, designing furniture and interiors, specialists in various fields of design, theorists and art historians, sculptors, artists and restorers of monumental painting, ceramics artists , metal and glass, art metal and furniture restorers. Such an extensive range of specialties makes it possible for university graduates to work in any areas of artistic creativity and create the diversity of the objective world, which forms the human environment. During its existence, the Stroganov School has accumulated many interesting pages of history.
How it all began
In 1825, Count Sergei Stroganov founded in Moscow a school for the training of artists of applied and decorative art. It will be important to say about the democratic principles that the graph immediately laid down: the students ’nutrition and education were free, children of serfs and commoners were accepted into the school, and the criteria for admission to school were not the privileged position of the parents and their security, but the ability of the student to be creative and drawing , giftedness and talent.
The school was designed for three hundred and sixty people, and in the initial stages, training was carried out in three specializations: drawing animals and figures; geometry, drawing, drawing machines; drawing decorations and flowers. Already in 1830 there was an expansion - a class of printed technical drawing appeared, then in 1837 a class of sculpting figures and decorations from clay was opened.
In 1843, Count Stroganov transferred the school to Moscow, and it became a public institution, receiving a new name - Second Drawing School. And in 1860 it was transformed into the Stroganov School of Technical Drawing.
Features of the educational process
Children from twelve years old were admitted to the educational institution, regardless of class. The training lasted five years. The school was designed for two hundred people, fifty of whom “due to poverty” could be exempted from paying for teaching materials. Upon graduation, a diploma of "scientific draftsman" was issued. The Stroganov School in Moscow also included a women's department for fifty students and Sunday drawing classes, where people of all classes and ages could learn the art of painting for free. The school was run by the Department of Manufactures and Domestic Trade of the Ministry of Finance.
In 1901, on February 23, in honor of the seventieth anniversary of the foundation, the institution received its official name - Stroganov Central Art and Industrial School - and a piece of land in the property (on Myasnitskaya Street).
VKHUTEMAS and VKHUTEIN
After the revolution, in 1918, the Stroganov School was reorganized and incorporated into VKhUTEMAS, the State Free Art Workshop, and it, in turn, was transformed into VKhUTEIN, the Moscow Higher Artistic and Technical Institute, in 1928. In 1930, it broke up into several independent institutions:
- art (now the Moscow Art Theater named after Surikov);
- architectural (now MARCHI);
- textile (now MSTU named after Kosygin);
- printing (now MGUP them. Fedorov).
New story
In 1945, the Stroganov School was revived under the name Moscow Central Art and Industrial School (abbreviated as ICCPU). In 1948 it was renamed again, changing the word “central” to “higher” (ICCPU). Such famous personalities as N. N. Sobolev, A. V. Kuprin, V. E. Egorov, V. F. Bordichenko, P. V. Kuznetsov, G. I. Motovilov and others taught at the educational institution. And in 1956, the new university building designed by the architect Zholtovsky opened on Volokolamsk Highway 9. The Stroganov School still has this address.
In 1960, the reorganization of the Moscow Institute of Art and Design began, three faculties appeared: interior and equipment, industrial art, applied and monumental and decorative art. Among similar universities in the country, the Moscow Institute of Higher Professional Education became the leading one: the model programs developed here are used in other educational institutions of Russia of this profile. In 1992, the school was once again transformed, now it has become known as the Moscow Stroganov Art and Industrial Institute. Since 1996, the word “state” was added to the name, and since 2009 the word “university” was replaced by the word “academy”.
School today
Now the Moscow State Art and Industry Academy named after S. G. Stroganov acts as a well-organized educational institution that meets all the requirements for ensuring a high-quality level of training for graduates. Seminars and lecture courses of general academic departments are complemented by the training conducted by specialized departments. The focus is on practical creative work in numerous workshops and classrooms.
Additional information about the Stroganov School
- The official site is mghpu.ru.
- Rector - Kurasov Sergey Vladimirovich.