Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw ( pl, Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie) is a public university of

visual arts The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual art, and textile art ...

and

applied arts The applied arts are all the arts that apply design and decoration to everyday and essentially practical objects in order to make them aesthetically pleasing."Applied art" in ''The Oxford Dictionary of Art''. Online edition. Oxford Univers ...

located in the Polish

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. The Academy traces its history back to the Department of Arts founded at the

Warsaw University The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields of ...

in the

Duchy of Warsaw The Duchy of Warsaw ( pl, Księstwo Warszawskie, french: Duché de Varsovie, german: Herzogtum Warschau), also known as the Grand Duchy of Warsaw and Napoleonic Poland, was a French client state established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1807, during ...

in 1812. As a separate institution it was founded in 1844 in

Congress Poland Congress Poland, Congress Kingdom of Poland, or Russian Poland, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland, was a polity created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a semi-autonomous Polish state, a successor to Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. I ...

. In an upgrade in 1904 it was named the Warsaw School of Fine Arts; and in 1932 it received recognition as an Academy. At first the institute did not have its own building and classes were held in several locations around the city. Following an architectural competition a design by Alfons Gravier was chosen and construction began in 1911. The building was completed by the outbreak of the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...

Faculties

*Faculty of

Painting Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and a ...

*Faculty of

Sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable ...

*Faculty of

Graphic Arts A category of fine art, graphic art covers a broad range of visual artistic expression, typically two-dimensional, i.e. produced on a flat surface.

*Faculty of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art *Faculty of

Interior Design Interior design is the art and science of enhancing the interior of a building to achieve a healthier and more aesthetically pleasing environment for the people using the space. An interior designer is someone who plans, researches, coordin ...

*Faculty of

Industrial Design Industrial design is a process of design applied to physical products that are to be manufactured by mass production. It is the creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features, which takes place in advance of the manufactu ...

*Faculty of

Media Art New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of electronic media technologies, comprising virtual art, computer graphics, computer animation, digital art, interactive art, sound art, Internet art, video games, robotics, 3D pri ...

Notable students and faculty

* Magdalena Abakanowicz (1930–2017) * Bronislaw Abramowicz (1837–1912) * Piotr Abraszewski (1932–1939) * Mirosław Bałka (1958) * Magda Bielesz (1977–) * Bogna Burska (1974) * Caziel (1906–1988) *

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis ( pl, Mikołaj Konstanty Czurlanis – ) was a Lithuanian painter, composer and writer. Čiurlionis contributed to symbolism and art nouveau, and was representative of the fin de siècle epoch. He has been ...

or Czurlanis in Polish (1875–1911) *

Marian Czapla Marian Czapla (July 28, 1946 – January 12, 2016) was a Polish painter and graphic artist. Born on July 28, 1946, in Gacki, Staszów County, Gacki near Szydłów, Czapla graduated from the School of Plastic Arts in Kielce. He then attended t ...

(1946–) *

Wojciech Gerson Wojciech Gerson (; July 1, 1831 – February 25, 1901) was a leading Polish painter of the mid-19th century, and one of the foremost representatives of the Polish school of Realism during the foreign Partitions of Poland. He served as long-time ...

(1831–1901) *

Chaim Goldberg Chaim Goldberg (March 20, 1917 – June 26, 2004) was a Polish-American artist, painter, sculptor, and engraver. He is known for being a chronicler of Jewish life in the eastern European Polish villages (or '' shtetlekh'') like the one in his ...

(1917–2004) * Wiktoria Goryńska (1902–1945) * Stanisław Horno-Popławski (1902-1997) * Krzysztof Jung (1951-1998) *

Kali Kali (; sa, काली, ), also referred to as Mahakali, Bhadrakali, and Kalika ( sa, कालिका), is a Hindu goddess who is considered to be the goddess of ultimate power, time, destruction and change in Shaktism. In this tra ...

(1918–1998) *

Julia Keilowa Julia Keilowa (Ringel) (born 1902 in Stryj, died 1943 in Warsaw) was a Polish artist industrial designer. Early life She came from an assimilated Jewish family. She attended schools in Lviv and Vienna. She studied model manufacture at Lviv N ...

(1902-1943) *

David van de Kop David Johannes van de Kop or David Vandekop (The Hague, November 3, 1937 - Dreischor, September 14, 1994) was a Dutch painter, draftsman and sculptor.Biographical data at the Netherlands Institute for Art History Life and work From 1956 to 1961 ...

(1937–1994) *

Katarzyna Kozyra Katarzyna Kozyra (born 1963) is a Polish video artist. She studied German studies at the University of Warsaw (1985–1988). In 1993, she also graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw where she studied sculpture and Hochschule für Gra ...

(1963–) * Jeremi Kubicki (1911–1938) * Bronisław Linke (1906-1962) * Lech Majewski (1947) * Witold Manastyrski (1915-1992) * Eugeniusz Geno Malkowski (1942–2016) * Ryszard Sroczyński (1905–1966) * Boguslaw Szwacz (1912–1982) *

Antoni Słonimski Antoni Słonimski (15 November 1895 – 4 July 1976) was a Polish poet, artist, journalist, playwright and prose writer, president of the Union of Polish Writers in 1956–1959 during the Polish October, known for his devotion to social justi ...

(1895–1976) * Wanda Telakowska (1905–1986) * Aleksander Żyw (1905–1995) *

Henryk Tomaszewski (poster artist) Henryk Tomaszewski (pronounced tom-a-SHEV-ski) (June 10, 1914 – September 11, 2005) was an award-winning poster artist and the "father" of the Polish Poster School. Biography Henryk Tomaszewski was born in Warsaw, Poland on June 10, 1914, to ...

(1914-2005)

References

External links

Homepage of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
(English version) {{authority control Educational institutions established in 1844 Arts organizations established in the 1840s