Vkhutemas
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thumb|Architecture at Vkhutemas, book cover by El Lissitzky, 1927 Vkhutemas (, acronym for '' Vysshiye Khudozhestvenno-Tekhnicheskiye Masterskiye'' "Higher Art and Technical Studios") was the Russian state art and technical school founded in 1920 in Moscow, replacing the Moscow Svomas.
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- Instance of
- educational institution
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Followed by
- Vkhutein
- Location
- Saint Petersburg
- Image
- Moscow, 1900s School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.jpg
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- inception
- 1920-00-00
- topic's main category
- Category:Vkhutemas
- Commons category
- Vkhutemas
- category for alumni of educational institution
- Category:Vkhutemas alumni
- has works in the collection
- Tate
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Basic course
- Art faculty
- Industrial faculty
- Metalwork and woodwork
- Textiles
- Lenin's visit
- Comparisons with the Bauhaus
- Renaming into Vkhutein in 1927 and Dissolution in 1930
- The Art Education System after Vkhutemas-Vkhutein dissolution in 1930
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- Sources
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thumb|Architecture at Vkhutemas, book cover by El Lissitzky, 1927 Vkhutemas (, acronym for '' Vysshiye Khudozhestvenno-Tekhnicheskiye Masterskiye "Higher Art and Technical Studios") was the Russian state art and technical school founded in 1920 in Moscow, replacing the Moscow Svomas.
The workshops were established by a decree from Vladimir Lenin with the intentions, in the words of the Soviet government, "to prepare master artists of the highest qualifications for industry, and builders and managers for professional-technical education". The school had 100 faculty members and an enrollment of 2,500 students. Vkhutemas was formed by a merger of two previous schools: the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and the Stroganov School of Applied Arts. The workshops had artistic and industrial faculties; the art faculty taught courses in graphics, sculpture and architecture while the industrial faculty taught courses in printing, textiles, ceramics, woodworking, and metalworking.
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