Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts

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Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts
Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Krakowie im. Jana Matejki

Main building at Jan Matejko Square

Established:	1818
Type:	Public
Rector:	Professor Jan Pamuła
Faculty:	6
Staff:	353
Students:	822 (2001/02)
Location:	Kraków, Poland
Campus:	Urban
Website:	http://www.asp.krakow.pl

Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts or Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow (Polish: Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Krakowie im. Jana Matejki, usually abbreviated to ASP) located in Kraków, Poland, is the oldest run Polish Fine Arts Academy, established in 1818. It is a state run university offering 5 or 6 year-long Master's degree programmes. As of 2007 the Academy employs 94 professors and assistant professors as well as 147 Ph.D. holders as lecturers and teachers.

[edit] History

The Academy of Fine Arts was originally a subdivision of the Jagiellonian University's Department of Literature and was initially (1818-1873) called School of Drawing and Painting (Szkoła Rysunku i Malarstwa). It 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. The main building based on a neoclassical design by architect Maciej Moraczewski was erected in today's Matejko Square in 1879. The first professors were Florian Stanisław Cynk, Aleksander Gryglewski and Leopold Loeffler.

Following the death of Jan Matejko, the next ASP President was Julian Fałat, who remained at his post till 1909. Fałat gave the Academy a new direction hiring new art instructors associated with contemporary Western art philosophies; painters such as Teodor Axentowicz, Jacek Malczewski, Jan Stanisławski, Leon Wyczółkowski, Konstanty Laszczka, Józef Mehoffer, Stanisław Wyspiański, Wojciech Weiss, and Józef Pankiewicz.

At the 100th anniversary of its foundation in 1979 the Academy was named after Jan Matejko, its first President and founder, who significantly contributed to its artistic legacy.

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

[edit] Faculties

The 19th century etching of the Academy, then School of Drawing and Painting in Kraków

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