Grekov Odesa Art School
46°29′16″N 30°44′0″E / 46.48778°N 30.73333°E
Former name | Odesa Art School of Drawing (aka the Odesa Art School) |
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| Type | Art School |
| Established | May 29, 1865 |
| Address | Ukraine, Odesa St. Preobrazhenskaya, 14, 14/16 , Odessa , Ukraine |
| Website | https://grekovka.com.ua/ |
The Grekov Odesa Art School (1865–present) [Ukrainian: Одеське художнє училище імені Митрофана Грекова; abbreviated ОХУ] is an accredited full-time four-year art school in Odesa, Ukraine, with an educational approach focused on small-group learning in one of four fine arts disciplines: Painting (живопис), Sculpture (скульптура), Decorative Art (ceramics, batik) (художнє декорування середовища), and Design (artwork) (дизайн).
Founded by the patrons of Odesa's Society of Fine Arts, which included Governor-General P. Kotzebue, Mayor M. Novoselsky, Princes Gagarins (a prominent Russian noble of Rurikid descent), a Count Tolstoy (likely related to the author), the Italian Consul General of Castile, and several renowned architects, including Francesco Boffo, the art school is the oldest in Ukraine. It is most notable, however, for training several generations of artists like David Burliuk, Franz Roubaud, Leonid Pasternak, and Amshei Nurenberg in the "Ukrainian avant-garde, an artistic and cultural movement emerging from the 1900s to the 1930s, a unique combination of Ukrainian folk art and European modernist trends, including Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Symbolism."