Stroganov School in Moscow is one of the best art schools in the country

The Stroganov Art College (officially called the Stroganov Moscow State Art and Industry Academy, abbreviated as Stroganov Moscow State Art Gallery) is one of the oldest educational institutions in Russia in the field of monumental, decorative, industrial, applied art, and art Interior.

The best education

Currently MGHPA prepares artists in five specialties, seventeen specializations, including specialists in the development of furniture and decorative fabrics, furniture and interior design, specialists in various design fields, theorists and historians of art, sculptors, artists and restorers of monumental painting, ceramics artists , Metal and glass, restorers of artistic metal and furniture. Such a wide range of specialties makes it possible for university graduates to work in all spheres of artistic creativity and create the diversity of the objective world that forms the human habitat. During the existence of the Stroganov School has accumulated many interesting pages of history.

How it all began

In 1825, Count Sergei Stroganov founded in Moscow a school for the training of applied and decorative artists. It will be important to say about the democratic principles that the earl immediately laid: the food and training of the students were free, the children of serfs and raznochintsy were accepted to school, and the criteria for admission to study were not the privileged position of the parents and their security, but the abilities of the incoming to the artistic creation and drawing , Giftedness and talent.

The school was designed for three hundred and sixty people, and in the initial stages, three specializations were taught: drawing animals and figures; Geometry, drawing, drawing machines; Drawing jewelry and flowers. Already in 1830 there was an expansion - there was a class of ramming technical design, then in 1837 a class of molding from clay figures and ornaments was opened.

In 1843, Count Stroganov transferred the school to Moscow, and it became a state institution, having received a new name - Second Drawing School. And in 1860 it was transformed into the Stroganov School of Technical Drawing.

Features of the educational process

The school accepted children from twelve years old, regardless of the class. The training lasted five years. The school was designed for two hundred people, fifty of them "for poverty" could be exempted from paying for teaching materials. At the end of the school, he was given a diploma of a "scientist draftsman". The Stroganov School in Moscow also included a women's department for fifty schoolchildren and Sunday drawing classes, where people of all ages and ages were free to learn the art of painting. The educational institution was under the jurisdiction of the Department of Manufactures and Internal Trade of the Ministry of Finance.

In 1901, on February 23, in honor of the seventieth anniversary of the founding, the institution received the official name - Stroganov Central Art and Industrial School - and a piece of land in ownership (on Myasnitskaya Street).

VHUTEMAS and VHUTEIN

After the revolution, in 1918, the Stroganov School was reorganized and incorporated into VHUTEMAS - the State Free Art Studio, and in turn, it was transformed into the VHUTEIN - Moscow Higher Art and Technical Institute in 1928. In 1930, he split into several independent institutions:

• Artistic (now MGAHI named after Surikov);
• Architectural (now MARhI);
• Textile (now MSTU named after Kosygin);
• Polygraphic (now MGUE named after Fedorov).

New story

In 1945, the Stroganov School was revived under the name of the Moscow Central Art and Industrial School (abbreviated as MKHPPU). In 1948, it was again renamed, changing the word "central" to "higher" (MVHPU). The educational institution taught such famous personalities as NN Sobolev, AV Kuprin, VE Egorov, VF Bordichenko, PV Kuznetsov, GI Motovilov and others. And in 1956 the new building of the university on the Volokolamsk Highway, designed by the architect Zholtovsky, was opened , 9. The Stroganov School has such an address to this day.

In 1960, the reorganization of the MHPU began, three departments appeared: interior and equipment, industrial art, applied and monumental and decorative art. Among similar universities in the country, MHPPU has become the main one: the standard programs developed here are used in other educational institutions of Russia of this profile. In 1992, the school was once again transformed, now it became known as the Moscow Art and Industry Institute named after SG Stroganov. Since 1996 the word "state" has been added to the title, 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 SG Stroganov acts as a well-organized educational institution that meets all the requirements for ensuring a high-quality level of graduate training. Seminar classes and lecture courses of general academic departments are supplemented by the training conducted by the profiling chairs. The main attention is paid to practical creative work in numerous workshops and classrooms.

Additional information about Stroganov School

• The official site is mghpu.ru.
• Rector - Kurasov Sergey Vladimirovich.