The Kharkiv State School of Art (Ukrainian: Харківське державне художнє училище, KhDKhU, romanized: Kharkivske derzhavne khudozhnie uchylyshche) is an educational institution in Kharkiv, Ukraine. It accepts a new class of students each year for instruction in the subjects of visual arts education, sculpture, decorative arts, graphic design, and landscape architecture.
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History
The Kharkiv Art School was formally established in 1896 by the Kharkiv city government, based on the previous private art school of Maria Raevskaia-Ivanova. In 1912, the school reopened in a new specially-designed building by architect Kostiantyn Zhukov in the modernist style with contemporary influences from older Ukrainian buildings. The first director of the new school was Alexander Lubimov, a student of Ilya Repin. The teachers were also alumni of Repin's workshop at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg.
In 1913, the school was managed by Semyon Prokhorov, formerly head of the Art School in Tomsk, Russia. In 1914, Gavriil Gorelov became its principal, followed by Aleksey Kokel in 1916. A faculty of architecture was added 1925.
Faculties
Design
Visual art
Sculpture
Theatrical art
Architecture
Famous educators
Aleksey Kokel - taught 1916–1921
Volodymyr Starikov - taught 1982-2010
Leonid Andrievskyi - taught 1938–1941, 1945–1947
Sergey Besedin - studied 1923–1929, taught 1929-1941
Famous graduates
Natalia Verhun - 1953-1958
Aleksandr Deyneka - 1915-1917
Sergey Kamennoy - 1974-1978
Hryhoriy Matsehora - graduated 1957
Leonid Chernov - graduated 1941