Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem - Tanárképző Tanszék - Budapest

The Hungarian University of Fine Arts is the national center of higher education in fine arts in Hungary, a public university Budapest VI. district, Andrássy út 69-71. number. The school was founded in 1871 under the name of the Royal Hungarian Art Drawing School and Drawing Teacher Training, since 1908 it has been known as the Hungarian Royal College of Fine Arts, and since 1945 it has been renamed the Hungarian College of Fine Arts. The need to organize higher education in fine arts in Hungary became urgent by the middle of the 19th century, with the strengthening of national romance. Until then, Hungarian artists could train themselves only in foreign academies and educational institutions, and the establishment of a national arts school became increasingly important. The National Hungarian Fine Arts Society, founded in 1861, and within it Gustav Kelety was a painter and art critic. Thanks to this, in October 1871, the legal Hungarian predecessor of the University, the Royal Hungarian School of Fine Art and Art Teacher Training for Fine Arts and Art Teachers, was opened in a rented Teresa town house. Bertalan Székely and Frigyes Schulek were among the first teachers of the Oriental Institution. Starting with a small student body, the Model Art School soon outgrew the Teresa city building, so the National Hungarian Fine Arts Society decided to build an independent headquarters suitable for teaching and exhibiting. Finally, at its present location, in the contemporary Epreskert, on the Boulevard (Andrássy út), the building at number 71 was completed by Lajos Rauscher and Ferenc Kolbenheyer and the center building at number 69 by November 1877, with the interior frescoes of Károly Lotz. and Miksa Róth's colorful windows. Today, the building complex, which houses the Model Art School and the Art Gallery of the National Association of Hungarian Fine Arts, was built in Neo-Renaissance style. Over the coming decades, the institution provided an ever-wider range of training, and its institutions expanded to include several Epreskert buildings (Master School of Painting, Master School of Sculpture, Female School of Painting, etc.). In 1896 the School of Applied Arts, the legal predecessor of the present Moholy-Nagy University of Art, became a member. In 1920, under the leadership of Károly Lyka, educational reforms were carried out. Master schools were merged and the emphasis was placed on artist training instead of teacher training. Following the Second World War, the institution now known as the Hungarian College of Fine Arts ceased to provide applied arts education, but the arts were differentiated (fresco, mosaic painting, tapestry design, etc.) and training for restorers began. In 1971 the institute was awarded a university rank, and later it started to set up a set of costume and costume designers, and later also a stage designer. In the history of the school, besides the rectors, the teaching staff has been strengthened by renowned artists of their age, often by creators whose fame is as well known abroad as in the country. In the period 1948-1991, the party-state system influenced the choice of instructors at the institution.