Saint Petersburg Art and Industry Academy

Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design

Санкт-Петербургская государственная художественно-промышленная академия имени А. Л. Штиглица
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Former names	School of Technical Drawing of Baron Alexander von Stieglitz; State College of Art and Design; Leningrad Higher School of Art and Industry
Established	1876 (1876)
Rector	Vasily Kichedzhi
Academic staff	200
Students	1,500
Location	Saint Petersburg , Russia
Website	ghpa.ru

The Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, named again in post-Soviet Russia after its founder Alexander von Stieglitz and known in Soviet times as the Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Design, was set up in Saint Petersburg in 1876 as the Baron Alexander von Stieglitz's School of Technical Drawing. In 1945, by decision of the Soviet Government School of Technical Drawing, it was re-established as the College of Art and Design which provides training in the monumental, decorative and industrial arts. In 1948 it became the Leningrad Higher School of Art and Industry. Vera Mukhina (the monumentalist author of Worker and Kolkhoz Woman), whose name had been a symbol of Soviet art, was not considered after the collapse of the Soviet Union personally linked to the school, and the educational establishment was renamed after its originator.

Today

Today the Academy 1500 plus students and 220 professors and professional specialties teachers and instructors annually.

Departments:

• Department of Conceptual, Urban, Innovative Industrial Arts and Marketing
• Department of Urban and Monumental Art

Notable professors

Professor Valerian D Kirhoglani Professor Margarita S Stieglitz Professor Kolkushin Professor Muraviev

External links

• Art History department of Alexander Stieglitz Academy (Russian)