The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Arts and Design in Wrocław (Polish: Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Eugeniusza Gepperta we Wrocławiu) is a public institution of higher learning established in 1946 originally as the College of Fine Arts. From 2008 the university bears the name of Polish master-painter Eugeniusz Geppert.
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History
In January 1946, on the recommendation of Poland's Minister of Culture and Arts, Eugeniusz Geppert was entrusted with the task of establishing the Higher School of Fine Arts in the city of Wrocław which had been ravaged by war. Two buildings were chosen to house the school: the pre-war Municipal School of Crafts and Art Crafts (now located at ul. Traugutta) and former State Academy of Arts and Crafts.
Staff of the newly formed institutions was composed of painters such as Leon Dołżycki, Emil Krcha, Stanisław Pękalski, Maria Dawska; painter, graphic artist and designer Stanisław Dawski, glass designer Halina Jastrzębowska, interior and furniture designers Władysław Wincze and Marian Sigmund, as well as ceramists Julia Kotarbińska and Rudolf Krzywiec. The following years brought the faculty and school graduates many successes at national and international exhibitions and art competitions. In 1957 emerged the already-historical Theatre of the Senses (Teatr Sensybilistyczny) combining happening action of experimental theater with the performance art.
Since its inception the school bore the following names: College of Fine Arts (1946–1949), State College of Fine Arts (1949–1996), Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław (1996–2008) and since 2008, the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Arts and Design.
Faculties
Faculty of Painting
Department of Painting
Department of Drawing
Department of Painting in Architecture and Multimedia
Faculty of Sculpture and Art Mediation
Department of Sculpture
Department of Artistic Education
Faculty of Graphic Arts and Media
Department of Printmaking
Department of Graphic Designing
Department of Media Art
Faculty of Ceramics and Glass
Department of Ceramics
Department of Glass
Department of Ceramics & Glass Conservation and Restoration
Department of Interdisciplinary Activities in Ceramics and Glass
Faculty of Interior Architecture, Design and Stage Design
Department of Interior Design
Department of Furniture Design
Department of Design
Department of Stage Design
List of rectors
Eugeniusz Geppert: 1946–1950
Mieczysław Pawełko: 1950–1952
Stanisław Dawski: 1952–1965
Stanisław Pękalski: 1965–1967
Tadeusz Forowicz: 1967–1980
Jan Jaromir Aleksiun: 1980–1982
Rufin Kominek: 1982–1984
Michał Jędrzejewski: 1984–1990
Andrzej Klimczak-Dobrzański: 1990–1993
Konrad Jarocki: 1993–1999
Zbigniew Horbowy: 1999–2005
Jacek Szewczyk: 2005–2012
Piotr Kielan: 2012–2020
Wojciech Pukocz: 2020–present
Notable alumni
Maciej Cieśla (born 1988), contemporary painter
Zbigniew Horbowy (1935–2019), glass artist
Zbigniew Kupczynski (born 1928), painter
Natalia LL (1937–2022), painter, photographer and performance artist, a pioneer of feminist art in Poland
Eugeniusz Molski (born 1942), artist, painter and sculptor
Lech Rzewuski (1941–2004), painter
Mira Żelechower-Aleksiun (born 1941), painter