Odessa Art College named after M. B. Grekov

The first art institution in the territory of modern Ukraine was the Odessa Art School of Drawing, which later established itself in the status of an art school. Founded on May 30, 1865, F.F. Malman was elected director of the school, who drafted the school rules. For a long time, the school existed on voluntary donations and did not have a permanent address. For 30 years, solving the problem of the school’s location was the concern of the vice president of the Odessa Society of Fine Arts, Franz Osipovich Morandi , who found the time and energy to equip the drawing school. The first plaster casts, engravings, mannequins were written by him from the Milan Academy of Arts, with whom he had a good relationship.

May 22, 1883 with the blessing of the Bishop of Elizabeth of Neophyte on Preobrazhenskaya Street 1, the first stone of the future building of the art school was laid. In 1885, the school has already moved into its own premises. On December 30, 1899, the charter and staff of the Art College were approved.

In 1909, a sad event occurred: "His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich " died, who subsidized the school for 25 years. In gratitude for the many years of help, the school was named after Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich. It bore this name until 1917. In 1924, the school was renamed the Polytechnic of Fine Arts, which trained monumental artists, polygraphists, ceramists, then, in 1930, the Odessa Polytechnic of Fine Arts was renamed the Art Institute, but in 1934 the Odessa Art Institute again became a secondary educational institution. ^[one]

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the school, in 1965, it received the name of a former student - M. B. Grekov .

In 1997, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine issued a resolution "On the improvement of higher vocational schools." Educational institutions belonging to the cultural sphere were liquidated and new ones created. On the basis of the former art school, the Odessa Theater and Art School was created, in which the departments are represented: artistic and pedagogical, theater and art, folk art.

The school has the following areas of training:

Specialty 5.02020501 "Fine Arts". There are 4 departments in the structure according to specializations:

• painting
• sculpture
• artistic decoration of the environment ( ceramics , batik , mosaic, stained glass, wall painting),
• design , (decoration).

Duration of study - 4 years.

Full-time form of education. ^[2]

20 modern teachers are members of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine , at different times famous people taught, such as V. Sosnovsky, K. Kostandi , G. Ladyzhensky, L. Iorini, A. Krasovsky, F. Nesturkh , Villiers de Lil-Adan , the Caesar brothers , Pietro Boni, N. Lukin others.

• Anufriev, Alexander Sergeevich ( 1940 ) - Ukrainian artist , one of the creators of the Odessa school of unofficial art.
• Belsky, Yakov Moiseevich ( 1897 - 1937 ) - Soviet cartoonist, writer, journalist.
• Bondarenko, Grigory Antonovich ( 1892 - 1969 ) - Ukrainian artist .
• Volokidin, Pavel Gavrilovich (1877-1936) - Soviet artist, studied at the school in 1898-1905.
• Gervits, Leonid Vladimirovich (1946)
• Greenberg, Isaac (Alexander) Zinovievich (1881-1938) - architect-artist, creator of the first Soviet tasks in the style of constructivism.
• Gusev, Igor Mikhailovich
• Dmitriev, Vladimir Nikolaevich ( 1947 ) - Russian sculptor .
• Dulfan, Lucien Dulfan ( 1942 ) - American artist , one of the creators of the Odessa school of unofficial art.
• Kibrik, Evgeny Adolfovich
• Kozyurenko, Alexander Grigoryevich (1892 - 1959) - Ukrainian Soviet cartoonist, honored artist of the Ukrainian SSR. For many years he was the main artist of the journal "Pepper".
• Ladur, Mikhail Filippovich (1903-1976) - Russian and Soviet cultural figure, theater artist, graphic artist, editor, art critic. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (since 1956). People's Artist of the RSFSR (since 1964).
• Langbard, Joseph Grigorievich (1882 - 1951) - Belarusian Soviet architect.
• Magalevsky, Yuri Alexandrovich (1876 - 1935) - Ukrainian artist .
• Okolovich, Nikolai Andreevich (1867 - 1928) - Russian artist, curator of the Russian Museum .
• Pavlovich, George Vitoldovich (1906-1949) - theater artist.
• Ponikarov, Vasily Andreevich ( 1929 - 2014 ) - Soviet and Ukrainian artist , member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Honored Artist of Ukraine.
• Ryabchenko, Vasily Sergeevich - Ukrainian artist, one of the leaders of the South Russian wave.
• Sychev, Stanislav Ivanovich ( 1937 - 2003 ) - Ukrainian artist , one of the creators of the Odessa school of unofficial art.
• Telalim, Alexander - Bulgarian watercolor artist.
• Ulinich Boris Yakovlevich - Soviet architect.
• Friedman, Daniil Fedorovich - Soviet architect.
• Serge Fotinsky - French artist
• Kharlamov, Matvey Yakovlevich (1870-1930) - Russian and Soviet sculptor-muralist.
• Khrushch, Valentin Dmitrievich ( 1943 - 2005 ) - Ukrainian artist , one of the creators of the Odessa school of unofficial art.
• Shovkunenko, Alexey Alekseevich ( 1884 - 1974 ) - Soviet painter. People's artist of the USSR, full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR.

• List of educational institutions of Odessa