Athens School Of Fine Arts Celebrates 180 Years

The Athens School of Fine Arts recently celebrated 180 years of cultivating young artists, coinciding with the history of contemporary Greece and three years after the conception of Athens as the capitol.

 

ASFA originally began as a Sunday school for architecture to support the Greek state and after the 1843 Revolution, the school was divided into three divisions. Once the school was divided, this also laid the foundation for the creation of the National Technical University of Athens.

In 1930, ASFA became an independent university and was officially named the Athens School of Fine Arts. This was also when the first annexes, or Art Stations, were created around throughout Greece, which can be used by students and artists for educational purposes and events. During this time, a new style of artistic expression in Greece arose, revisiting Greek tradition and reviving true 'Greekness.'

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