The Nizhny Novgorod Art School is a secondary vocational art education institution in Nizhny Novgorod. The school's history dates to 1919, when free art studios were established in the Rukavishnikov Mansion; teaching there was begun by artists V. F. Franketti, A. V. Kuprin, and K. A. Cheptsov. In 1921, at A. V. Kuprin's proposal, the studios were reorganized into the Nizhny Novgorod Art Tekhnikum; lectures on art history, physics, chemistry, and the technology of artistic materials were introduced at the same time, and a paint-grinding workshop was opened. In 1923 the tekhnikum moved to Tikhonovskaya Street (now Ulyanova Street), into an old columned building.[1] During the Soviet period it was known as the Gorky Art School. The school is located at: Nizhny Novgorod, Varvarskaya Street; official website — nhu52.ru.[2]

Training of Artists

Among the school's graduates are painters, graphic artists, sculptors, and masters of decorative and applied arts. Graphic artist Vakhtang Zakharovich Veshapuri studied here from 1950 to 1955 under instructors I. Myasnikov and V. Olshevsky, after which he continued his education at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute.[2] Painter Nina Ivanovna Zhdanova graduated from the Gorky Art School in 1973 and subsequently completed her studies at the Moscow Higher School of Industrial Art (MVKHPU). Yelena Konstantinovna Yelyushkina, who later became a member of the Union of Artists of Russia and a master of carved birch-bark icons, received her diploma from the school in 1983.

Teaching Staff

From 1998 to 2002, painter Valeriy Mikhaylovich Krylatov — a graduate of the Ilya Repin St. Petersburg State Academy Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture of the Russian Academy of Arts — taught at the school. Among graduates who have chosen careers in teaching is Angelina Lvovna Kurantova, who specializes in painting. The school serves as the leading methodological center for the development of fine arts in Nizhny Novgorod and the Region; it houses an exhibition hall where themed exhibitions are held monthly. In particular, the exhibition hall hosted a joint exhibition by school graduate Aleksandr Iosifovich Kundin and member of the Union of Artists of Russia Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kundin.[3] At present the school trains specialists in two fields: "Painting" (painters and teachers) and "Design" (designers and teachers). Applicants sit entrance examinations in drawing, painting, and composition; examples of work in these disciplines are published on the institution's website.[3][2]

Links

The institution's full official name is GBPOU "Nizhny Novgorod Art School (College)".[3]

Contact telephone numbers: director's office — 419-42-40, deputy director for academic affairs — 419-95-37, deputy director for student affairs — 411-87-12, accounting department — 419-55-59; email — nhu52@yandex.ru.[4]

Sources

  1. nhu52.ru — The institution's full official name is GBPOU "Nizhny Novgorod Art School (College)"; the organization has the status of a state-funded public vocational (archive)
  2. allcollege.ru — Contact telephone numbers include the director's office (419-42-40), deputy director for academic affairs (419-95-37), deputy director for student affairs (419-87-12)
  1. Wikipedia (ru) — The school's history dates to 1919, when free art studios were established in the Rukavishnikov Mansion; teaching there was begun by artists (archive)
  2. minkult.nobl.ru — The school is located at: Nizhny Novgorod, Varvarskaya Street, 8/22; official website — nhu52.ru.
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: Veshapuri Vakhtang Zakharovich, Elena Konstantinovna Elyushkina, Nina Ivanovna Zhdanova, Valery Mikhailovich Krylatov, Angelina Lvovna Kurantova