Higher Artistic and Technical Workshops

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Higher Artistic and Technical Workshops was a prominent early Soviet art and design school in Moscow that trained many influential filmmakers, artists, and designers.

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instanceOf art and design school
educational institution
abbreviation VKhUTEMAS
aim to train artist-engineers for socialist industry
alsoKnownAs VKhUTEMAS
Vysshie khudozhestvenno-tekhnicheskie masterskie
city Moscow
comparedWith Bauhaus
country Soviet Union
dissolved 1930
educationalApproach emphasis on mass production design
emphasis on technical skills
integration of art and industry
workshop-based training
fieldOfWork architecture education
art education
design education
foundedBy Soviet government
governedBy People's Commissariat for Education of the RSFSR
hasDepartment architecture faculty
ceramics faculty
graphic arts faculty
metalworking faculty
painting faculty
polygraphy faculty
sculpture faculty
textile faculty
woodworking faculty
inception 1920
influenced Soviet film set design
Soviet industrial design
graphic design in the Soviet Union
languageOfName Russian
locatedIn Moscow
movement Constructivism
Russian avant-garde
notableFor influence on modernist design
training influential artists
training influential designers
training influential filmmakers
notableStudent Alexander Rodchenko
El Lissitzky
Gustav Klutsis
Lyubov Popova
Varvara Stepanova
Vladimir Tatlin
notableTeacher Alexander Rodchenko
El Lissitzky
Konstantin Melnikov
Nikolai Ladovsky
Vladimir Favorsky
replacedBy Higher Artistic and Technical Institute
timePeriod early Soviet era

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Mikhail Romm educatedAt Higher Artistic and Technical Workshops