- Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts
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The Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts (Norwegian: Statens kunstakademi) is a Norwegian university offering studies in the areas of specialization painting, photography / video / film, digital art, sound art, sculpture, installation, performance art, and art theory.[1]
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History
The Art Academy was formerly National Academy of Art (Statens Kunstakademi), an autonomous art academy formed in 1909. The noted Norwegian painter Christian Krogh was one of three professors at the Academy of Art when it was established. The staff additionally included painter Halfdan Strøm and the sculptor Gunnar Utsond (1864–1950).[2]
The Academy was initially organized along the lines of the old master studios. The Academy moved to better premises in the Merchant Building on Drammensveien in central Oslo during 1919 and special drawing office at the rear of the Kunstnernes Hus in 1930. In 1935, the Danish painter and architect Georg Jacobsen came to the Academy. From 1935 to 1940, he worked in an extraordinary professorship in art construction and composition teaching. In 1941, the National Assembly called for new arrangements of the academy and added painting and party member Søren Onsager (1878–1946) as a professor.[3]
Oslo National Academy of Art
In the mid-1990s the academy merged with the formerly independent Design, Craft, Stage Arts, and Opera academies to form the Oslo National Academy of Art (Kunsthøgskole i Oslo), the nation's largest arts college. The former Kunstakademiet then became the Faculty of Visual Arts within the KhiO administration organization, but it is still referred to simply as Kunstadademiet, or the Art Academy.
In August 2010,[dated info] all the schools will physically merge into a new building in a former sail factory in Grünerløkka on the east side of Oslo. It will be one of the largest art academies in Europe. The Kunstakademi has and will have semi-autonomous power of operations, its own quarters and studios as well as its own academic and admissions programs.[4]
Current operation
The Academy has existed over the years in many different buildings in Oslo and undergone major structural changes, and today offers a three-year bachelor's program and a two-year master's program. Kunstakademiet currently has students, mostly from Norway but also from Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, Holland, USA, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Palestine, Israel, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Sudan, Turkey, Cuba, Colombia, Chile and Australia. Instruction is in Norwegian and English, and occasionally in Spanish, French and German.
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Categories:- Education in Oslo
- Oslo National Academy of the Arts
- Educational institutions established in 1909
- Educational institutions disestablished in 1996
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