The story
The Academy was founded in 1945 in Sopot, Poland as the State Institute of Fine Arts (Państwowy Instytut Sztuk Plastycznych), by seven artists including Marian Wnuk and Jacek Żuławski. On 15 October of that year 22 students became the first cohort to begin their studies. At the end of the year the institute was renamed as the State College of Fine Arts (Państwową Wyższą Szkołę Sztuk Plastycznych, PWSSP).
From Wikipedia’s article on Academy of Fine Arts, Gdańsk, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3