The Grekov Odesa Art School ( ua, Одеське художнє училище імені Митрофана Грекова; abbreviated ОХУ) is a

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institution in

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. It is the oldest arts school in the country.

History

The Grekov Odesa Art school was founded as a "drawing school" on May 30, 1865. Frederick Malman was its first principal. He drafted the rules of the school. It was an open Society of Fine Arts under the patronage of wealthy citizens of Odesa and the

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. Its patrons included S.M.Vorontsov,

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, Odesa's

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, Italian General Consul Castile, as well as famous architects F.Boffo, O.I.Otton and F.V.Gonsiorovsky. For twenty years, the school survived on donations and had no permanent address. The Vice President of Odesa Society of Fine Arts Franz Morandi became involved in its funding. The first plaster casts, prints, models were discharged to him from the Milan Academy of Fine Arts, with which he had good relations. On May 22, 1883, outside Preobrazhenska str., the cornerstone of the art school was laid. In 1885 the school moved to its current premises. On December 30, 1899, the sponsor approved the charter and the state of the Art School.

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was a sponsor of the school for 25 years until he died in 1909. Until 1917, the Odesa Art School had the name of Grand Duke. In 1924 the school was renamed the Polytechnic College of Fine Arts, which prepared muralists, printers and potters. In 1930, Polytechnic College was renamed again to an Art Institute (high education), but in 1934 the Odesa Art Institute once again became a secondary education school. In 1965, in honour of the school's 100th-anniversary, it was renamed for Mitrofan Grekov; one of its former pupils. In 1993, the school caught fire, and an assembly hall and a library burned. In 1997, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine issued a decree "On improvement of higher vocational education." It was based on the former art school created by the Odesa Theatre and Art School, which presents separation: artistic, educational, theatrical and folk art.

Education

Today the Grekov Odesa Art school has a fine art focus with 4 departments: Paintings (живопис), Sculpture (скульптура), Art decoration environment (ceramics, batik) (художнє декорування середовища) and Design (artwork) (дизайн). In 2015 the school had 259 students. They form groups from 6 to 10 people. The course lasts 4 years of full time study.

Notable alumni

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Joseph Barsky Joseph Barsky ( he, יוסף ברסקי, Odessa, Russian Empire – 1943 in Haifa, Palestine) was an architect in Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine. Barsky was a graduate of the Architectural College in Grekov Odessa Art school of Odessa an ...

* Isaak Brodsky *

David Burliuk David Davidovich Burliuk (Давид Давидович Бурлюк; 21 July 1882 – 15 January 1967) was a Russian-language poet, artist and publicist associated with the Futurist and Neo-Primitivist movements. Burliuk has been described as ...

Yakov Chernikhov Yakiv Georgievich Chernikhov (ukr. Яків Георгійович Чернихов) (5 (17) December 1889 in Pavlograd, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire (now Pavlohrad, Ukraine) – 9 May 1951 in Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Russian arc ...

* Stanisław Chlebowski *

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Vladimir Gorb Vladimir Alexandrovich Gorb (russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Го́рб; December 31, 1903 – October 20, 1988) was a Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist, and art teacher. He lived and worked in Leningrad as prof ...

Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (; rus, Василий Васильевич Кандинский, Vasiliy Vasilyevich Kandinskiy, vɐˈsʲilʲɪj vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ kɐnʲˈdʲinskʲɪj; – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter a ...

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Kyriak Kostandi Kiriak Konstantinovich Kostandi ( uk, Киріак Костянтинович Костанді; russian: Кириак Константинович Костанди; – 31 October 1921) was a prominent Ukrainian painter and an art scholar. A m ...

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Iosif Langbard Iosif Grigor’evich Langbard, also Josef Langbard (6 January 1882 in Bielsk Podlaski, Grodno Governorate – 3 January 1951 in Leningrad) was a Soviet Belarusian architect and Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR (1934). Langbard studied arch ...

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* Michael Matusevitch * Lev Meshberg * Leonid Mezheritski *

Pyotr Nilus Pyotr Alexandrovich Nilus (russian: Пётр Александрович Нилус; – 23 May 1943). was a Russian Empire, Russian and Ukrainians, Ukrainian impressionist painter and writer. Pyotr was born in Baltsky Uyezd, Government ...

* Amshey Nurenberg * Abel Pann *

Leonid Pasternak Leonid Osipovich Pasternak (born ''Yitzhok-Leib'', or ''Isaak Iosifovich, Pasternak''; russian: Леони́д О́сипович Пастерна́к, 3 April 1862 ( N.S.) – 31 May 1945) was a Russian post-impressionist painter. He was the ...

* Vasyl Ponikarov *

Aleksandr Razumny Aleksandr Yefimovich Razumny (russian: Александр Ефимович Разумный, 1 May 1891 – 16 November 1972) was a Russian and Soviet film director and screenwriter. He was a graduate of the Grekov Odessa Art school in 1914. ...

Franz Roubaud Franz Roubaud (russian: Франц Алексеевич Рубо, translit=Franc Alekseevič Rubo; french: François Iwan Roubaud; June 15, 1856 - March 13, 1928) was a Russian painter who created some of the largest and best known panoramic pain ...

Vasiliy Ryabchenko Vasiliy Ryabchenko (born 23 July 1954, Odessa, USSR) is a Ukrainian painter, photographer, and installation artist. One of the key artists in contemporary Ukrainian art, and the " New Ukrainian Wave". Biography Vasiliy Ryabchenko was born on ...

Yuri Salko Yuri Salko (russian: Ю́рий Ива́нович Салко́, born 1964) is a Ukrainian visual artist. He graduated from the Grekov Art College, Odesa, Ukraine in 1984 and Shevchenko Transnistria State University, Tiraspol, Transnistria i ...

* Sergey Savchenko * Nikolay Sednin * Iosif Shkolnik *

Oleksii Shovkunenko Oleksii Oleksiyovych Shovkunenko ( uk, Олексій Олексійович Шовкуненко; 21 March 1884 - 12 March 1974) was a Soviet painter and teacher, and from 1947 on a member of the USSR Academy of Arts. Shovkunenko was born in t ...

* Alexander Stovbur * Stanislav I. Sychov *

Alexander Telalim Alexander Telalim (born 1966) is a Ukrainian and Bulgarian visual artist. He graduated from the Grekov Odesa Art School in Odesa, Ukraine, and then from the National Academy of Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria. He lives and works in Sofia. Telalim is one ...

Oksana Zhnikrup Oksana Zhnikrup, Ukrainian: Оксана Жнікруп (1931 - 1993) was a Ukrainian ceramicist, whose works are held in the collection of the National Folk Decorative Art Museum. The sculpture '' Seated Ballerina'' by Jeff Koons is closely in ...

References

External links

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(in Ukrainian)
the state at Marth 2015
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