Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow
Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Jana Matejki w Krakowie
Main building, on Kraków's Jan Matejko Square
TypePublic
Established1818; 206 years ago (1818)
Rectorprof. Andrzej Bednarczyk
Academic staff
321 (March 2022)
Administrative staff
149 (March 2022)
Students972 (2021/2022)
Address
Plac Matejki 13, 31-157 Kraków
,
Kraków
,
Poland
CampusUrban
Websitewww.asp.krakow.pl

The Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (Polish: Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Jana Matejki w Krakowie, usually abbreviated to ASP),[1] 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.[2]

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,[3] 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.[4]

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.[5][6]

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.[7]

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)

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

   since 2020: Andrzej Bednarczyk

Faculties

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

Notable faculty members

Notable graduates

Teodor Axentowicz
Axentowicz
 Julian Fałat
Fałat
 Jacek Malczewski
Malczewski
 Jan Matejko
Matejko
 Leon Wyczółkowski
Wyczółkowski
Wyspiański
Selfportraits of leading professors and graduates

See also

References

  1. ^ http://bip-old.asp.krakow.pl/userfiles/file/aktualno%C5%9B%C4%87i/Statut%20uchwalony%20przez%20senat%2021%20marca%202017.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  2. ^ "Franciszek Ksawery Lampi (1782 - 1852)". Informacje o twórcy. Dom Aukcyjny Agra-Art. October 2012. Archived from the original on February 3, 2015. Retrieved October 29, 2012. Skłócony z ojcem, w 1814 wyjechał na Węgry, skąd ok. 1815 przybył do Polski i zamieszkał w Warszawie.
  3. ^ "Jan Nepomucen Głowacki". Malarstwo polskie XIX wieku. Katalog zbiorów Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie (in Polish). Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie. 2001. Archived from the original on May 11, 2015. Retrieved August 22, 2012.
  4. ^ Nina Kinitz (October 8, 2009). "Sztuka zrodzona z historycznej pasji – obrazy Władysława Łuszczkiewicza". Malarstwo. Realizm (in Polish). Polskie muzy. Archived from the original on April 16, 2013. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  5. ^ Irena Kossowska (October 2002). "Jacek Malczewski". Symbolizm w polskim malarstwie przełomu XIX i XX wieku (in Polish). Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk. Culture.pl. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
  6. ^ Marcin Grota (1996). "Malczewski's Mythology". Malczewski exhibition at the Czartoryski Museum (Warsaw Voice review). University of Buffalo. Info.Poland. Archived from the original on June 25, 2010. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
  7. ^ "Pierwsza kobieta-studentka ASP". Gazeta Krakowska (in Polish) (122). 1969. ISSN 0867-468X.
  8. ^ "Sasza Blonder". Artvee. Retrieved 2023-05-31.
  9. ^ . pp. 498–499 http://www.gravitram.com/Gravitram/Famous%20works%20of%20Art/Master%20Chronological%20List.pdf. ((cite news)): Missing or empty |title= (help)

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