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The Krasnopresnenskaya Children's Art School was founded in 1935. The basis of the teaching staff of this educational institution is its graduates. The school is strong in its traditions in the field of aesthetic education and art education. This feature, along with the high quality of education, provided the educational institution with popularity and prestigious status.

The learning process is carried out on the basis of programs created by the teachers of the school. They are based on live communication with children, creative work, development of students' skills of independent and imaginative thinking. Teachers strive to develop in their students a love of art. Much attention is paid to national culture. The educational process includes joint work programs with the Union of Artists and the country's leading creative universities.

A museum has been organized at the Krasnopresnenskaya Art School, which houses the works of famous graduates and other valuable exhibits. Electives are organized: graphic illustration, basics of oil painting, psychological perception of color, design and modeling of a costume, ceramics, associative composition, painting on fabric, etc.

Krasnopresnenskaya Children's Art School (KDHSH) is the oldest and one of the most famous children's art schools in Moscow and Russia. 2010 marks the 75th anniversary of its foundation.

The school was founded in the autumn of 1935 on the initiative of a group of enthusiastic artists headed by VKhUTEMAS graduate Natalya Viktorovna Bushkevich, its first director. Classes were held in the old Nebolsin mansion on B. Sadovaya, next to the Planetarium.

Old school at the planetarium

Children worked here during the day, and famous Moscow artists painted in the evening. Such a neighborhood, of course, had a beneficial effect on the guys. Even in the harsh years of the war, the school-studio did not stop its work, and the warm light of the windows attracted new pupils.

School team. In the center - director Bushkevich N.V., behind - Solomakhin R.A.

(1950s)

In 1943, the school was given the status of a city art school with a 10-year cycle of study and the only one in the system of the USSR Ministry of Education. At that time (30s, 40s, 50s), highly qualified artists-teachers worked at the school, who devoted a lot of effort and talent to the formation and development of the school, contributed to the growth of its authority.

In the workshop of the teacher I.I. Tyomkin

Many well-known figures of art and culture were friends of the school: S. Konenkov, V. Mukhina, Kukryniksy, S. Gerasimov, A. Barto, B. Likhachev and many others. For many years, Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar took care of the school.

Agniya Barto with students of the school. 1978

In the early 50s, due to the difficult situation of the school, attempts were made to close the educational institution. The Academy of Arts of the USSR, the Union of Artists, public organizations and cultural figures came to the defense of the unique educational institution. And as a result, the future of the school was considered at a meeting of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers of the USSR in 1952. The order signed by the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR I.V. Stalin: "... to keep the city art school as an exception ...".

This, in essence, is the second birth of the school. During these years, the school was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Department of Education of the Soviet District of Moscow, later renamed Krasnopresnensky.

High school students. 1950s

In the early 1960s, the teaching staff of the school was replenished with young specialists, former graduates of the school. In 1961, Roman Arsenievich Solomakhin became the head of the school, having worked as a director for 43 years. The new teaching staff preserved and developed the traditions of the school, introduced new ideas into the process of artistic upbringing and education.

From left to right: Dubrovin V.M., Antonov I.A., Irodov Yu.S., Solomakhin R.A.,

Zinkovsky A.I., Filippov O.F. in the teacher's room. 1972

The 70s are marked by a burst of creative activity. Former pupils of teachers from the 1960s came to the school. This fusion of experience and creative energy gave a new impetus to the life of the school. Close creative ties were established with the Union of Artists of the USSR, with the House of Friendship with the Peoples of Foreign Countries, and with many creative and public organizations.

Specialists from foreign countries became frequent guests at the art school. Leading teachers, the composition has preserved and developed the traditions of the school, introduced new ideas into the process of artistic education and upbringing. During this period, the school team entered the international arena. For the first time, the drawings of Soviet children-students of the art school began to be exhibited at international exhibitions and competitions of children's creativity. This period coincided with the work in the building on the street. Klimashkina (former Kurbatovsky lane).

School building on Klimashkina street

In 1974, the children received a full-fledged building on the street. Krasina, d.27 (former secondary school).

A number of leading teachers of the school became members of the Union of Artists of the USSR, conducted active creative and social activities in parallel with teaching, including in the aesthetic commissions of the Union of Artists. It was during this period that the school became known as Krasnopresnenskaya. The school has made a significant contribution to the cultural life of Moscow and the country.

In the workshop of the sculpture teacher Shipovskaya V.N. 1960s

The team has accumulated rich experience in the field of art education and aesthetic education of children and youth.

The method of the school's work was based on the preservation and development of the traditions of Russian and world art using modern forms of education and upbringing, which was facilitated by close creative and methodological contacts with the Institute of Artistic Education of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR.

The school became a kind of testing ground where new programs were developed. The experience of the school formed the basis for the creation of a number of art schools in the country.

In 1974, at a meeting of the Collegium of the Ministry of Education of the USSR, the work of the art school was heard and approved. In its decision, the Board noted the positive role of the school in education, stressed the need to expand the experience of its work throughout the country.

With the collapse of the USSR in 1991, the art school did not lose its creative and pedagogical potential, found the strength to survive in a difficult political and economic situation, retained the best qualities of the Soviet school of art education and began to introduce new modern forms of education. The activities of the school in the field of popularization of children's creativity have significantly expanded. In essence, the KDHSH has become one of the leaders in Moscow and the Central District among the institutions of children's art education.

In painting class. Teacher Zuev A.A. 1998

The school cooperates with many museums in Moscow, magazines (especially with the "Young Artist"), the media, ministries and departments, unions of artists of Russia and Moscow, the Academy of Education of the Russian Federation. The school staff received great help and support from the Prefecture of the Central Administrative District of Moscow, the Department of Education, and the Presnya Administration. This period in the life of the school coincided with the work of the deputy director of its former graduate Dubrovin Viktor Mikhailovich, who headed the school in 2004.

In 2006, Shulyak Evgenia Anatolyevna, a former graduate of the school, became the director of the KDHSH.

Evgenia Anatolyevna came to work at the Children's Art School in 1990 as a teacher (she was a methodologist in drawing, deputy in exhibition activities).

Krasnopresnenskaya Children's Art School has its own pronounced creative face, which over the years is enriched and improved.

Working on a tapestry in a textile workshop

During its 75-year history, the art school has produced thousands of pupils who have become well-known figures of culture and art, have shown themselves in science and education. The works of school students were exhibited in more than 50 countries of the world, were highly appreciated at children's art competitions both in the country and far beyond its borders, and were awarded numerous prizes, awards, and diplomas. In 2004, the school team was awarded the main prize of the festival "Young talents of Muscovy" - "Girl on the ball."

At present, the school continues the traditions of its predecessors, expands the areas of art education, introduces new modern methods and technologies. At the school, along with the basic basic disciplines in drawing, painting and composition, students improve and gain invaluable experience in sculpture, arts and crafts, computer graphics, and expand their horizons in art history classes.

View sketches of diplomas. Teachers of KDHSH

The uniqueness of the art school lies in its ability to carry out a continuous cycle of education for 11 years from the age of 6 until the child graduates from high school. Graduates of the school in the last year of study complete a thesis, which should be the result of many years of creative work of the student. The teaching staff does not set itself the task of making all pupils artists. But to instill love for art, culture, expand the boundaries of knowledge, teach the basics of fine literacy and instill in their students feelings of love for the Motherland, national culture - this is the main thing that unites the entire school staff.

At the same time, in the upper grades, specialized training is introduced to guide students in choosing their future profession.

In modern conditions, it is important to strive to make learning as accessible as possible for different segments of the population, therefore, almost everyone who wants to join the beautiful is accepted into the school. Even if a child picks up a pencil or brush for the first time and finds it difficult to adapt to the requirements of the school, he has the opportunity to acquire the missing skills in the preparatory group, and then enter the class appropriate for his age.

Pupils of the school who have matured go into life, they are replaced by new young talents, and with them, despite their advanced age, the art school is getting younger.

For merits in the development of national culture and education, many teachers and staff of the school were awarded government and departmental awards. Honorary titles were awarded: Gurvich Iosif Mikhailovich - Honored Artist of the RSFSR, Solomakhin Roman Arsenevich - Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation, Stopa Genrikh Tadeushevich - Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Glukhov Viktor Aleksandrovich - Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Pavlov Oleg Borisovich - Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Sokolov Leonid Igorevich - Honored Russian architect.