Académie Colarossi
Académie Colarossi | |
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10 rue de la Grande-Chaumière Paris France | |
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School type | art school |
Founded | 1815 |
Closed | 1930 |
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The Académie Colarossi (1870–1930) was an art school in Paris founded in 1870 by the Italian model and sculptor Filippo Colarossi.[1] It was originally located on the Île de la Cité, and it moved in 1879 to 10 rue de la Grande-Chaumière in the 6th arrondissement. The school closed in the 1930s.
History[]
A precursor art school in the same location was the Académie Suisse, founded in 1815.[2] The former Académie Suisse location on the Île de la Cité was bought by Italian sculptor Filippo Colarossi in 1870, and in 1879 it moved to 10 rue de la Grande-Chaumière in the 6th arrondissement.[3][4]
The Académie was established in the 19th century as an alternative to the government-sanctioned École des Beaux Arts that had, in the eyes of many promising young artists at the time, become far too conservative. Along with its equivalent Académie Julian, and unlike the official École des Beaux Arts, the Colarossi school accepted female students and allowed them to draw from the nude male model.[5]
Around 1879, two salon painters taught the Académie classes, the Japanese-influenced painter Raphaël Collin and French academic-style painter Gustave Courtois.[1] Among its other instructors were the influential French sculptor, Jean Antoine Injalbert and painter Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret.[1] In 1910, the progressive Académie appointed the New Zealand artist Frances Hodgkins (1869–1947) as its first female teacher.
In 1922 sculptor Henry Moore attended, although not as a student. Moore took life-drawing classes that were open to the general public, paid for with a book of inexpensive tickets. The evening classes were progressively timed – one hour, then 20 minutes, then five minutes, then one – to develop various drawing skills.
The school closed in the 1930s. Around that time, Madame Colarossi burned the priceless school archives in retaliation for her husband's philandering.
Notable students[]
At Académie Colarossi among the female attendees were Amedeo Modigliani's muse, Jeanne Hébuterne; Scottish Impressionist Bessie MacNicol; Canadian Impressionist Emily Carr; and French sculptor Camille Claudel, who was also a student of Rodin's. Noted also for its classes in life sculpting, the school attracted many foreign students, including a large number from the United States.[4]
Other students[]
- Ethel Blanchard Collver
- Rose Connor
- Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois
- Camilo Egas
- Paul Haefliger
- Cornelia Ellis Hildebrandt
- Louis Kahan
- Richard E. Miller
- Josephine Muntz Adams
- Maurice Prendergast[9]
- Lucy May Stanton
- Mary K. Trotter
- Clara Westhoff
- George Grosz
- Clara Miller Burd
- Nora Houston[10]
See also[]
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- ^ Ayral-Clause, Odile (2019-08-09). Camille Claudel: A Life. Plunkett Lake Press.
- ^ "Académie Colarossi". Artist Biographies. Artist Biographies Ltd. Registered in England and Wales. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Greet, Michele (2018). Transatlantic Encounters: Latin American Artists in Paris Between the Wars. Yale University Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-300-22842-7.
- ^ "Art Term – Académie Colarossi". Tate. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
- ^ Edgar, Suzanne; Green, Dorothy (1986). "Muskett, Alice Jane (1869–1936)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
- ^ Compton, Ann (1997). Edward Halliday: Art for Life, 1925-1939. Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies. Liverpool University Press. pp. 10, 44. ISBN 9780853239727.
- ^ Hughes, Edan Milton (1986). Artists in California, 1786-1940. Hughes Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0961611200.
- ^ Mathews, Nancy Mowll (1993). Charles Prendergast. Williamstown, MA.: Williams College Museum of Art. p. 10. ISBN 0-913697-16-8.
- ^ https://norahouston.org/about/ About Nora Houston - Nora Houston Foundation
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