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Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts

Art school in Kraków, Poland

Summary

Art school in Kraków, Poland

Field	Value
name	Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków
native_name	Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Jana Matejki w Krakowie
image_name	AkademiaSztukPięknychImJanaMatejki-POL, Kraków.jpg
image_size	250px
caption	Main building, on Kraków's Jan Matejko Square
established
type	Public
administrative_staff	149 (March 2022)
faculty	321 (March 2022)
rector	prof. Andrzej Bednarczyk
enrollment	972 (2021/2022)
city	Kraków
country	Poland
campus	Urban
website
address	Plac Matejki 13, 31–157 Kraków
logo	Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Krakowie logo.svg
logo_size	50px

The Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (, usually abbreviated to ASP), is a public institution of higher education located in the centre of Kraków, Poland. It is the oldest Polish fine art academy, established in 1818 and granted full autonomy in 1873.

ASP is a state-run university that offers 5- and 6-year Master's degree programmes. As of 2007, the Academy's faculty comprised 94 professors and assistant professors as well as 147 Ph.D.s.

History

The Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) was originally a subdivision of the Jagiellonian University's Department of Literature and was initially (1818–1873) called the School of Drawing and Painting (Szkoła Rysunku i Malarstwa). Among its original teachers were Polish Neoclassicist Antoni Brodowski, and Franciszek Ksawery Lampi, a world-renowned landscape and portrait artist in Congress Poland whose most notable students there were Wojciech Korneli Stattler (a teacher of Jan Matejko) and Piotr Michałowski, equestrian master artist of the Romantic period.

ASP received the status of an independent institution of higher learning in 1873 as the School of Fine Arts (Szkoła Sztuk Pięknych). The first President of the Academy was painter Jan Matejko, who brought in other leading artists as professors including Jan Nepomucen Głowacki, the most outstanding landscape painter of the early 19th century in Poland, as well as Florian Cynk, Aleksander Gryglewski and Leopold Loeffler, member of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. The main building based on a neoclassical design by architect Maciej Moraczewski was erected in today's Matejko Square in 1879. In 1893–95 its principal was a broadly educated Władysław Łuszczkiewicz (another teacher of Jan Matejko and later, his close associate) who also served as conservator of architectural monuments in the city.

Following the death of Jan Matejko in 1893, the next ASP President elected in 1895 was Julian Fałat, who remained at his post until 1909. Fałat gave the Academy a new direction by hiring new art instructors associated with contemporary Western art approaches and associated painters such as Teodor Axentowicz, Jacek Malczewski (the father of Polish Symbolism), Jan Stanisławski, Leon Wyczółkowski, Konstanty Laszczka, Józef Mehoffer, Stanisław Wyspiański (one of first in Europe to work in all genres), Wojciech Weiss, and Józef Pankiewicz among others.

The first woman admitted to study at the Academy was Zofia Baltarowicz-Dzielińska, who, in 1917, gained a status of an auditor. Officially, women were allowed to become students over a year later, after the academy passed a resolution in December 1918.

On the 100th anniversary of its founding, in 1979, the Academy was named for Jan Matejko, its founder and first president.

In 2008 the Academy joined Icograda (the International Council of Graphic Design Associations) and became that organization's first educational member in Poland.

Rectors

The School of Fine Arts (director)

1873–1893: Jan Matejko
1893–1895: Władysław Łuszczkiewicz (acting rector)
1895–1900: Julian Fałat

The Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (rector)

1900–1909: Julian Fałat (till 1905 director of The Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts)
1909–1910: Leon Wyczółkowski
1910–1911: Teodor Axentowicz
1911–1912: Konstanty Laszczka
1912–1914: Jacek Malczewski
1914–1918: Józef Mehoffer
1918–1919: Wojciech Weiss
1919–1922: Józef Gałęzowski
1922–1927: Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz
1927–1928: Teodor Axentowicz
1928–1929: Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz
1929–1931: Konstanty Laszczka
1931–1932: Fryderyk Pautsch
1932–1933: Józef Mehoffer
1933–1936: Wojciech Weiss
1936–1939: Fryderyk Pautsch
1945–1949: Eugeniusz Eibisch (till 1947 active rector)
1949–1950: Zbigniew Pronaszko
1950–1951: Zygmunt Radnicki
1951–1952: Konrad Srzednicki
1952–1954: Mieczysław Wejman
1954–1967: Czesław Rzepiński
1967–1972: Mieczysław Wejman
1972–1980: Marian Konieczny
1980–1987: Włodzimierz Kunz
1987–1993: Jan Szancenbach
1993–1996: Włodzimierz Kunz
1996–2002: Stanisław Rodziński
2002–2008: Jan Pamuła
2008–2012: Adam Wsiołkowski
2012–2020: Stanisław Tabisz
2020– : Andrzej Bednarczyk

Faculties

19th-century etching of the Academy, then named the "Kraków School of Drawing and Painting"

Faculty of Painting
- Department of Painting
- Department of Drawing
- Department of Additional Specializations
- Department of Stage Design
Faculty of Sculpture
- Department of Sculpture (I, II)
- Department of Drawing
- Department of Architecture-Sculpture Design
Faculty of Interior Design
Faculty of Intermedia
Faculty of Industrial Design
- Department of Visual Communication
- Department of Product Design
Faculty of Graphic Arts
- Department of Graphic Arts
- Department of Graphic Design
- Department of Drawing and Painting
Faculty of Art Conservation
Interdisciplinary Department of Art History

Notable faculty members

Miłosz Horodyski

Notable graduates

Bronislaw Abramowicz
Ludmila Armata
Teodor Axentowicz
Władysław T. Benda
Sasza Blonder
Tadeusz Brzozowski
Julian Fałat
Stanisław Frenkiel
Henryk Gotlib
Artur Grottger
Zbylut Grzywacz
Wojciech Jerzy Has
Maria Husarska
Maria Jarema
Ewa Juszkiewicz
Tadeusz Kantor
Carl Krull
Ephraim Moses Lilien
Tadeusz Makowski
Jacek Malczewski
Anton Manastyrski
Jan Matejko
Józef Mehoffer
Henryk Minkiewicz
Igor Mitoraj
Abraham Neumann
Jerzy Nowosielski
Roman Petrović
Roman Polanski
Stanislaw Przespolewski
Heinrich Rauchinger
Tadeusz Rychter
Wilhelm Sasnal
Edward Rydz-Śmigły
Czesław Słania
Adam Studziński
Boguslaw Szwacz
Zoja Trofimiuk
Petar Tiješić
Stanisław Tondos
Ivan Trush
Andrzej Wajda
Wojciech Weiss
Andrzej Wróblewski
Leon Wyczółkowski
Stanisław Wyspiański
Mariusz Zaruski

Selfportraits of leading professors and graduates

References

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(October 2012). "Franciszek Ksawery Lampi (1782 - 1852)". Dom Aukcyjny Agra-Art.
(2001). "Jan Nepomucen Głowacki". Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie.
Nina Kinitz. (October 8, 2009). "Sztuka zrodzona z historycznej pasji – obrazy Władysława Łuszczkiewicza". Polskie muzy.
Irena Kossowska. (October 2002). "Jacek Malczewski". Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk. Culture.pl.
Marcin Grota. (1996). "Malczewski's Mythology". University of Buffalo. Info.Poland..
(1969). "Pierwsza kobieta-studentka ASP". [[Gazeta Krakowska]].
"Sasza Blonder".
Levy, Shab. (2012-02-20). "ARTISTS AND THEIR WORK - A WORK IN PROGRESS".

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