The influence of the vienna secession on the development of artistic and industrial education in western ukrainian lands (end of XIX – beginning of XX century)

Abstract

The article examines the peculiarities of the development of artistic and industrial education in the Austro-Hungarian Empi re. Which included the western Ukrainian lands of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The study reveals the imperial policy in education and the tasks that the government of this dualistic monarchy set for artistic and industrial education.

It shows the role of the «Austrian Museum of Art and Industry» and its regional branches as a system-creating component in the formation of artistic and industrial education of the empire. The article reveals the tasks that were set before the schools of arts and crafts, which were the first link at the top of the design education system of Austria-Hungary. In addition, it gives the names of the subjects studied by students at two levels in these schools. It highlights the activity of the Vienna Secession, founded by a group of Viennese artists, architects, and designers. Which made an important contribution to the development of artistic and industrial education and the training of designers in Austria. The article focuses on the architect O. Wagner. Theoretician and ideologist of the new «Secession» style in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, whose core was the aesthetics of modernism, which influenced the architecture, object design, and fine arts of Galicia and Bukovina.

It reflects the influence of the Viennese school in the western Ukrainian lands, most clearly manifested in the form of the «Hutsul Secession» architectural style, which implemented its architectural projects in the cities of Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk. The article indicates the important role of the Viennese Workshop, a production community of representatives of the fine arts, in the development of design education of the empire.

It gives the results of the design activities of this society in architecture and object design, which, through museums and exhibitions. It had an impact on the development of artistic and industrial education of the empire. The study reveals the role of the national factor in the development of art and industrial education and design of a multinational empire.