Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw ( pl, Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie) is a public university of visual arts and applied arts located in the Polish

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. The Academy traces its history back to the Department of Arts founded at the Warsaw University in the Duchy of Warsaw in 1812. As a separate institution it was founded in 1844 in

Congress Poland Congress Poland, Congress Kingdom of Poland, or Russian Poland, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland, was a polity created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a semi-autonomous Polish state, a successor to Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. It w ...

. In an upgrade in 1904 it was named the Warsaw School of Fine Arts; and in 1932 it received recognition as an Academy. At first the institute did not have its own building and classes were held in several locations around the city. Following an architectural competition a design by Alfons Gravier was chosen and construction began in 1911. The building was completed by the outbreak of the First World War. Czap4DSC 1082

Faculties

*Faculty of Painting *Faculty of Sculpture *Faculty of

Graphic Arts A category of fine art, graphic art covers a broad range of visual artistic expression, typically two-dimensional, i.e. produced on a flat surface.

*Faculty of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art *Faculty of Interior Design *Faculty of

Industrial Design Industrial design is a process of design applied to physical Product (business), products that are to be manufactured by mass production. It is the creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features, which takes place in advan ...

*Faculty of Media Art Warszawa, ul

Notable students and faculty

* Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930–2017) * Bronislaw Abramowicz (1837–1912) *

Piotr Abraszewski Piotr Abraszewski (June 29, 1905 – June 9, 1996) was a Polish painter born in Zamość, Poland. From 1928 to 1934 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with Professor M. Kotarbinski, and in 1935 he became Assistant Professor at th ...

(1932–1939) * Mirosław Bałka (1958) * Magda Bielesz (1977–) * Bogna Burska (1974) * Caziel (1906–1988) * Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis or Czurlanis in Polish (1875–1911) * Marian Czapla (1946–) * Wojciech Gerson (1831–1901) * Chaim Goldberg (1917–2004) * Wiktoria Goryńska (1902–1945) * Stanisław Horno-Popławski (1902-1997) * Krzysztof Jung (1951-1998) * Kali (1918–1998) *

Julia Keilowa Julia Keilowa (Ringel) (born 1902 in Stryj, died 1943 in Warsaw) was a Polish artist industrial designer. Early life She came from an assimilated Jewish family. She attended schools in Lviv and Vienna. She studied model manufacture at Lviv N ...

(1902-1943) *

David van de Kop David Johannes van de Kop or David Vandekop (The Hague, November 3, 1937 - Dreischor, September 14, 1994) was a Dutch painter, draftsman and sculptor.Biographical data at the Netherlands Institute for Art History Life and work From 1956 to 1961 ...

(1937–1994) *

Katarzyna Kozyra Katarzyna Kozyra (born 1963) is a Polish video artist. She studied German studies at the University of Warsaw (1985–1988). In 1993, she also graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw where she studied sculpture and Hochschule für Grap ...

(1963–) *

Jeremi Kubicki Jeremi Kubicki (6 April 1911 – 6 December 1938) was a Polish painter. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics and the 1936 Summer Olympics. He committed suicide by shooting himself in 1938. Gallery Refe ...

(1911–1938) * Bronisław Linke (1906-1962) * Lech Majewski (1947) * Witold Manastyrski (1915-1992) *

Eugeniusz Geno Malkowski Eugeniusz Geno Małkowski (; 5 September 1942 – 20 August 2016) was a Polish painter. Małkowski was a professor of contemporary art at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, founder of artistic groups and associations throughout Polan ...

(1942–2016) * Ryszard Sroczyński (1905–1966) * Boguslaw Szwacz (1912–1982) *

Antoni Słonimski Antoni Słonimski (15 November 1895 – 4 July 1976) was a Polish poet, artist, journalist, playwright and prose writer, president of the Union of Polish Writers in 1956–1959 during the Polish October, known for his devotion to social just ...

(1895–1976) *

Wanda Telakowska Wanda Telakowska (1905–1986) was a Polish artist and the founder of Warsaw's Institute of Industrial Design. Telakowska earned a degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1931. She was a member of the Spółdzielnia Artystów ŁAD ( p ...

(1905–1986) * Aleksander Żyw (1905–1995) * Henryk Tomaszewski (poster artist) (1914-2005)

References

External links

Homepage of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
(English version) {{authority control Educational institutions established in 1844 Arts organizations established in the 1840s