The Kharkiv State School of Art ( uk, Харківське державне художнє училище, KhDKhU) is an educational institution in Kharkiv, Ukraine. It accepts a new class of students each year for instruction in the subjects of

visual arts education Visual arts education is the area of learning that is based upon the kind of art that one can see, visual arts—drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, and design in jewelry, pottery, weaving, fabrics, etc. and design applied to more practic ...

, sculpture, decorative arts,

graphic design Graphic design is a profession, academic discipline and applied art whose activity consists in projecting visual communications intended to transmit specific messages to social groups, with specific objectives. Graphic design is an interdiscipli ...

, and

landscape architecture Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic design and general engineering of various structures for constructio ...

History

The Kharkiv Art School was formally established in 1896 by the Kharkiv city government, based on the previous private art school of Maria Raevskaia-Ivanova. In 1912, the school reopened in a new specially-designed building by architect K. Zhukov in the

modernist style Modern architecture, or modernist architecture, was an architectural movement or architectural style based upon new and innovative technologies of construction, particularly the use of glass, steel, and reinforced concrete; the idea that form ...

with contemporary influences from older Ukrainian buildings. The first director of the new school was

Alexander Lubimov Alexander Mikhailovich Lyubimov (russian: link=no, Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Люби́мов, ; February 25, 1879, a village of Paltsevo, Kursk Province, Russian Empire – 1955, Leningrad, USSR) was a Russian Soviet reali ...

, a student of

Ilya Repin Ilya Yefimovich Repin (russian: Илья Ефимович Репин, translit=Il'ya Yefimovich Repin, p=ˈrʲepʲɪn); fi, Ilja Jefimovitš Repin ( – 29 September 1930) was a Russian painter, born in what is now Ukraine. He became one of the ...

. The teachers were also alumni of Repin's workshop at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. In 1913, the school was managed by Semyon Prokhorov, formerly head of the Art School in

Tomsk Tomsk ( rus, Томск, p=tomsk, sty, Түң-тора) is a city and the administrative center of Tomsk Oblast in Russia, located on the Tom River. Population: Founded in 1604, Tomsk is one of the oldest cities in Siberia. The city is a not ...

, Russia. In 1914,

Gavriil Gorelov Gavriil Nikitich Gorelov (russian: Гавриил Никитич Горе́лов; , Pokrovskoye 16 March 1966, Moscow) was a painter.Aleksey Kokel Alexei Afanasyevich Kokel (1 March 1880 – 4 February 1956) was a Chuvash painter who rose to prominence in Russia and Ukraine during the pre-Soviet and Soviet eras. Biography Alexei Kokel was born into a large family in Tarkhany, Simb ...

in 1916. A faculty of architecture was added 1925.

Faculties

* Design * Visual art * Sculpture * Theatrical art * Architecture

Famous educators

Aleksey Kokel Alexei Afanasyevich Kokel (1 March 1880 – 4 February 1956) was a Chuvash painter who rose to prominence in Russia and Ukraine during the pre-Soviet and Soviet eras. Biography Alexei Kokel was born into a large family in Tarkhany, Simb ...

- taught 1916-1921 * Volodymyr Starikov - taught 1982-2010 * Leonid Andrievskyi - taught 1938-1941, 1945-1947 * Sergey Besedin - studied 1923-1929, taught 1929-1941

Famous graduates

* Natalia Verhun - 1953-1958 *

Aleksandr Deyneka Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Deyneka (russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Дейне́ка; May 20, 1899 – June 12, 1969) was a Soviet and Russian painter, graphic artist and sculptor, regarded as one of the most important Ru ...

- 1915-1917 * Sergey Kamennoy - 1974-1978 * Hryhoriy Matsehora - graduated 1957 * Leonid Chernov - graduated 1941

References

External links

Official website
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