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High school for arts and crafts — a medium of the times
Olga Maruševski
; Samostalni istraživač
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The school was founded in 1907 to improve the education in crafts provided by the Craft School. It began with art studios which were designed by Herman Bolle and from 1895 to 1896 built by the government at the initiative of the Art Society and lso Kršnjavi, the head of the Religion and Education Department (18911896). The idea was carried out gradually, from the foundation of the Art Society in 1868 which, among other things, planned to open an elementary art school, to the Crafts Museum (today's Museum of Arts and Crafts) founded in 1880 and the Crafts School opened in 1882, initially as an institution of the Art Society. The initiative for the school must be credited to sculptor Robert Frangeš. In 1908 problems began to accumulate; on the one hand, there had to be a differentiation in methods from the Crafts School which required reorganization, and on the other, larger premises were needed to allow for the growing curriculum that was to encompass all forms of crafts, decorative or applied arts as well as architecture, with an emphasis on the national. Around 1908 a two-story building was designed, with an exhibition hall in the classicist Sezession style. The plans are neither dated nor signed, but as the architectural department was intended for Viktor Kovačić, he is considered to be the author, although certain elements seem to belong to Hugo Ehrlich with whom Kovačić went into partnership in 1910. With the change in government in 1910, the idea of the new building was abandoned, but not the idea to broaden the curriculum with the possibility of opening workshops like those in Vienna, Munich, Budapest, Krakow and Prague. Rudolf Lubynski made designs in 1912. for rebuilding and additions to the existing studios. Together with the Association of Croatian Craftsmen, the school attempted to protect the Croatian crafts as prior to that virtually all craft products were purchased abroad, particularly those for church use; therefore the Commission for the Conservation of Art and Historical Monuments in Kingdoms of Croatia and Slavonia was founded in 1910.
The School in fact remained incomplete, as it did not fully realize its program until turning into an Academy; but at that point much more space was given to art than to crafts. In the development diagram, the starting point is the Art Society from which one line leads to the Crafts School, High School for Arts and Crafts and the Academy of Fine Arts, while another lead from the Crafts School to the Technical School, Technical Faculty and the Faculty of Architecture.
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Hrčak ID:
147928
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Datum izdavanja:
15.12.2000.
Posjeta: 1.735 *