VKhUTEMAS

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VKhUTEMAS was a pioneering Soviet state art and technical school in Moscow, often compared to the Bauhaus, that became a major center for avant-garde and Constructivist design and architecture in the 1920s.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf art and technical school
avant-garde art school
higher education institution
abbreviation VKhUTEMAS self-link
comparedTo Bauhaus
country Soviet Union
dissolved 1930
educationalApproach integration of art and technology
workshop-based training
fieldOfWork architecture
graphic design
industrial design
painting
sculpture
textile design
theater design
followedBy Vkhutemas
surface form: VKhUTEIN
fullName Vysshie Khudozhestvenno-Tekhnicheskie Masterskie
hasPart architecture faculty
ceramics faculty
graphic arts faculty
painting faculty
polygraphy faculty
sculpture faculty
textile faculty
woodworking and metalworking faculty
inception 1920
influenced industrial design education
modernist architecture
influencedBy Russian Revolution
languageOfInstruction Russian
locatedIn Moscow
Russian SFSR
surface form: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
movement Constructivism
Russian avant-garde
notableStudent Ivan Leonidov NERFINISHED
Konstantin Melnikov
Lazar Khidekel NERFINISHED
notableTeacher Alexander Rodchenko
El Lissitzky
Konstantin Melnikov
Lyubov Popova
Nikolai Ladovsky NERFINISHED
Varvara Stepanova
Vesnin brothers
Vladimir Tatlin
precededBy Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry
surface form: Stroganov School of Industrial Art
purpose to support industrialization of the Soviet Union
to train artist-constructors for industry
significance major center for Constructivist architecture
major center for Soviet avant-garde design
sponsor Soviet state
timePeriod 1920s
translatedName Higher Art and Technical Studios

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Alexander Rodchenko employer VKhUTEMAS
this entity surface form: VDKhUTEMAS
Alexander Rodchenko taughtAt VKhUTEMAS
VKhUTEMAS abbreviation VKhUTEMAS self-link
Gustav Klutsis employer VKhUTEMAS