Kyiv Art Institute (KHI) uk, Київський художній інститут, russian: Киевский художественный институт (1924-1930) was the Ukrainian state art and technical high school which is the historical inheritor of Ukrainian Academy of Arts which was founded at December 5, 1917 in Kyiv by the
Central Rada of
Ukrainian People's Republic. During the Soviet era, the name of the institution changed several times. Kyiv Art Institute appeared as a result of reorganization and merger of Institute of Plastic Arts (1922-1924) and Ukrainian Institute of Architecture (1918-1924). In 1925 KHI got a new building of former Kyiv Theological Seminary (where it is located today as
) this helped to open new departments: film and photography, printing, sculpture and pedagogical.
The development the KHI was facilitated by the activity of rector
Ivan Vrona
Ivan Vrona (russian: link=no, Ива́н Ива́нович Вро́на, uk, Іва́н Іва́нович Вро́на), (, Otrocz, — 5 January 1970, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian art critic and artist. He was Rector of the Kyiv Art Institute (192 ...
, who was updating it's pedagogical staff in 1924-1930. He invited famous avant-garde artists such as
Kazimir Malevich
Kazimir Severinovich Malevich ; german: Kasimir Malewitsch; pl, Kazimierz Malewicz; russian: Казими́р Севери́нович Мале́вич ; uk, Казимир Северинович Малевич, translit=Kazymyr Severynovych ...
,
Vladimir Tatlin,
Victor Palmov, Pavel Golubyatnikov, and turned Kyiv Art Institute into one of the most progressive higher education institutions in Europe in the 1920s along with the Bauhaus.
In addition, at the KHI already had been teaching:
Mykhailo Boychuk,
Alexander Bogomazov,
Fedir Krychevsky
Fedir Krychevsky ( uk, Федір Кричевський; – July 30, 1947) was an influential Ukrainian early modernist painter. He was the brother of graphic designer Vasyl Krychevsky.
Biography
Krychevsky was born in Lebedyn, in the K ...
,
Vadym Meller
Vadym Meller or Vadim Meller, (russian: Вадим Георгиевич Меллер; uk, Вадим Георгійович Меллер, 1884–1962) was a Ukrainian Soviet painter, avant-garde Cubist, Constructivist and Expressionist artist, ...
, Sophiya Nalepinska-Boychuk, Leo Kramarenko, Vasyl Krichevsky, Andriy Taran.
[Sydorenko A. Creative and Pedagogical Methods of the Artists-Teachers of the KHI in the 1920s of the early 1930s P. Golubiyatnikov, M. Bachuk and F. Krichevsky (On the Example of Works from the NAOMA Art Collection) // Українська академія мистецтва. - 2013. - №. 21. - P. 12-25.]
The Kyiv Art Institute played a significant role in maintaining the art avant-garde movement in Ukraine in the 1920s. In 1930 the Institute was reorganized into the Institute of Proletarian Culture (1930-1934) in which teaching was conducted only in line with socialist realism.
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