The Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design (Санкт-Петербургская художественно-промышленная академия имени А. Л. Штиглица; abbreviated as СПГХПА) is the oldest school of

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History

It was set up in

in 1876 by Baron

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(1814–84), a millionaire philanthropist, as the School of Technical Drawing. The Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts was founded in 1878 for the benefit of its students. The school building was designed by

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(the school's director, until 1896). By the end of the century, the Central School had branches in

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, Saratov, and

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. In 1945, by decision of the Soviet Government School of Technical Drawing, it was re-established as the College of Art and Design which provides training in the monumental, decorative and

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. In 1948 it became the Leningrad Higher School of Art and Industry. It was renamed the Leningrad Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Design in 1953 (after

Vera Mukhina Vera Ignatyevna Mukhina (russian: Ве́ра Игна́тьевна Му́хина; lv, Vera Muhina; french: Vera Moukhina; – 6 October 1953) was a prominent Soviet sculptor and painter. She was nicknamed "the queen of Soviet sculpture". B ...

, the monumentalist author of ''

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'', whose name was a symbol of Soviet art). As Mukhina was not personally linked to the school, the educational establishment (informally known as ''Mukha'') was renamed after its founder in 1994.

Today

Today the Academy has 1,500 plus students and 200 professors and teachers and instructors. The Academy has two faculties: the Faculty of Design, and the Faculty of Monumental and Decorative Art. The faculty of Design comprises the following departments: * Fashion (Costume) Design * Industrial Design * Furniture Design * Environmental Design * Graphic Design * Design of Interior and Equipment The faculty of Monumental and Decorative Art comprises the following departments: * Monumental and Decorative Sculpture * Monumental and Decorative Painting * Artistic Textiles * Painting and Restoration * Artistic Metal * Glass and Ceramics * Theory and History of Art * Book Binding In 2016 the Centre for Innovative Education Projects has been established as an integral part of the academy. Its main goal is to teach experts for creative industries.

References

External links

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History of art Department of Stieglitz Academy
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