Stroganov Art School (official name - Moscow State Art and Industry Academy named after S. G. Stroganov, abbreviated as MGHPA named after Stroganov) - one of the oldest educational institutions in Russia in the field of monumental-decorative, industrial, applied art as well as interior art.
Better education
Currently, MGHPA trains artists in five speci alties, seventeen specializations, including specialists in the development of furniture and decorative fabrics, design of furniture and interiors, specialists in various fields of design, theorists and art historians, sculptors, artists and restorers of monumental painting, ceramics, metal and glass artists, art metal and furniture restorers. Such an extensive range of speci alties enables university graduates to work in any field of art.creativity and create a variety of the objective world that forms the human environment. During its existence, the Stroganov School has accumulated many interesting pages of history.
How it all began
In 1825, Count Sergei Stroganov founded a school for training artists of applied and decorative arts in Moscow. It will be important to say about the democratic foundations that the count immediately laid: food and education for students were free, the children of serfs and raznochintsy were admitted to school, and the criteria for admission to study were not the privileged position of parents and their security, but the applicant's ability to artistic creativity and drawing, giftedness and talent.
The school was designed for three hundred and sixty people, and at the initial stages, training was conducted in three specializations: drawing animals and figures; geometry, drawing, drawing machines; drawing ornaments and flowers. Already in 1830, an expansion took place - a class of printed technical drawing appeared, then in 1837 a class for modeling figures and decorations from clay was opened.
In 1843, Count Stroganov handed over the school to Moscow, and it became a state institution, receiving a new name - the Second Drawing School. And in 1860 it was transformed into the Stroganov School of Technical Drawing.
Features of the educational process
The educational institution accepted children from the age of twelve, regardless of class. The training lasted five years. The school was designed fortwo hundred people, fifty of whom "because of poverty" could be exempted from paying for educational materials. At the end of the educational institution, a diploma of a “scientific draftsman” was issued. The Stroganov School in Moscow also included a women's department for fifty students and Sunday drawing classes, where people of all classes and ages could learn the art of painting for free. The educational institution was under the jurisdiction of the Department of Manufactories and Internal Trade of the Ministry of Finance.
In 1901, on February 23, in honor of the seventieth anniversary of its founding, the institution received the official name - the Stroganov Central School of Industrial Art - and a piece of land in ownership (on Myasnitskaya Street).
VHUTEMAS and VHUTEIN
After the revolution, in 1918, the Stroganov School was reorganized and included in the VKHUTEMAS - the State Free Art Workshop, and in 1928 it, in turn, was transformed into VKHUTEIN - the Moscow Higher Art and Technical Institute. In 1930, it broke up into several independent institutions:
- artistic (now Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after Surikov);
- architectural (now Moscow Architectural Institute);
- textile (now MSTU named after Kosygin);
- printing (now MGUP named after Fedorov).
New story
In 1945, the Stroganov School was revived under the name of the Moscow Central School of Industrial Art (abbreviated as MTSHPU). In 1948, it was renamed again, changing the word "central" to"higher" (MVHPU). Such well-known personalities as N. N. Sobolev, A. V. Kuprin, V. E. Egorov, V. F. Bordichenko, P. V. Kuznetsov, G. I. Motovilov and others taught at the educational institution. And in 1956, a new building of the university, designed by the architect Zholtovsky, was opened at Volokolamsk Highway, 9. The Stroganov School has the same address to this day.
In 1960, the reorganization of the MVHPU began, three faculties appeared: interior and equipment, industrial art, applied and monumental and decorative art. Among similar universities in the country, MVHPU has become the leading one: the standard programs developed here are used in other Russian educational institutions of this profile. In 1992, the school was once again transformed, now it has become known as the Moscow Institute of Art and Industry named after S. G. Stroganov. Since 1996, the word “state” has been added to the name, and since 2009, the word “university” has been replaced by the word “academy.”
School today
Now the Moscow State Art and Industry Academy named after S. G. Stroganov acts as a well-organized educational institution that meets all the requirements for ensuring the quality level of graduates. Seminars and lecture courses of general academic departments are supplemented by training provided by the profiling departments. The focus is on practical creative work in numerous workshops and classrooms.
Additionalinformation about the Stroganov School
- Official site – mghpu.ru.
- Rector – Kurasov Sergey Vladimirovich.
