Académie Colarossi

Académie Colarossi
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10 rue de la Grande-Chaumière

Paris

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School typeart school
Founded1815
Closed1930
Academie Colarossi life drawing class, 1908
Academie Colarossi life drawing class, 1908

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

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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 1893, the progressive Académie appointed the American artist Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley (1860–1958) 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

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At Académie Colarossi among the female attendees were german painter Thea Schleusner, 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]

Austria Austria Zofia Albinowska-Minkiewiczowa – Aloys Wach
Australia Australia Alice Muskett[6]
Bulgaria Bulgaria Pascin
Canada Canada Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith – Emily Carr – Ralston Crawford – Prudence Heward – George Loftus Noyes – Maurice Prendergast – George Agnew Reid – Boardman Robinson – Marc Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté
China China Georgette Chen
Czech Republic Czech Republic František Bílek – Josef Čapek – Alfons Mucha
Denmark Denmark Cecilie Dahl
Ecuador Ecuador Camilo Egas
Estonia Estonia Adamson-Eric – Konrad Mägi – Karl Pärsimägi – Nikolai Triik – Eduard Wiiralt
Finland Finland Helene Schjerfbeck – Ellen Thesleff
France France Hélène de Beauvoir – Camille Claudel – Paul Gauguin – Marcel Gromaire – Jeanne Hébuterne – Jean Lurçat – Émile Schuffenecker – Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen – Fabien Fabiano
Germany Germany Karl Albert Buehr – George Grosz – Hans Hofmann – Wilhelm Lehmbruck – Paula Modersohn-Becker
Greece Greece Sophia Laskaridou
Hungary Hungary Emile Lahner – Camilla Koffler (Ylla)
Republic of Ireland Ireland Eileen Gray
Italy Italy Romaine Brooks – Amedeo Modigliani
Israel Israel Avigdor Stematsky
Japan Japan Kume Keiichiro – Seiki Kuroda – Henry Sugimoto
Lithuania Lithuania Jacques Lipchitz
Norway Norway Nikolai Astrup – Jean Heiberg – Olaf Gulbransson – Wilhelm Rasmussen – Aage Storstein – Ingebrigt Vik – Gustav Wentzel – Cora Sandel
New Zealand New Zealand Sydney Thompson – Helen Stewart
Poland Poland Stanisław Jackowski – Alfons Karpiński – Józef Mehoffer – Mela Muter - Włodzimierz Tetmajer – Max Weber – Stanisław Wyspiański- Eugeniusz Zak
Romania Romania Reuven Rubin
Russia Russia Gleb W. Derujinsky – Alexander Golovin – Anna Golubkina – Eugene Lanceray – Konstantin Somov – Emil Wiesel- Nicolai Ivanovich Kravchenko – Nikolai Pomansky
Spain Spain Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa
Sweden Sweden Carl Eldh – Arvid Nyholm – Jenny Nyström – Hanna Pauli[1] - Anna Wengberg
Switzerland Switzerland Fritz Glarner – Oswald Pilloud – Louis Soutter – Heini Waser
Uruguay Uruguay Juan José Calandria
United Kingdom United Kingdom Lamorna Birch – John Duncan Fergusson – Edward Halliday[7] – Isobel Heath – Richard Jack - Mina Loy – Laura Muntz Lyall – Ottilie Maclaren Wallace – Bessie MacNicol - Cedric Morris – Samuel Peploe – Elizabeth Polunin – Dod Procter – Robert William Service – Stansmore Dean Stevenson - Edith Grace Wheatley - Sydney Curnow Vosper – Amy Krauss
United States United States Lucy Bacon – Cecilia Beaux – Charles Bittinger – Rinaldo Cuneo – Charles Demuth – Eyre de Lanux – Florence Esté – Clara Fasano - Lyonel Feininger – Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller – Marion Greenwood – Elizabeth Orton Jones – Alice De Wolf Kellogg – Walt Kuhn – Jean Mannheim[8] – Isamu Noguchi – George Loftus Noyes – Pauline Palmer — Lilla Cabot Perry – Alice Morgan Wright – Stanton Macdonald-Wright – Elenore Plaisted Abbott – Alice Schille – Janet Scudder – Armstrong Sperry – Inga Stephens Pratt Clark – Adrien Voisin – Challis Walker – Nan Watson — Adele Fay Williams — Mahonri Young

Other students

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d Thorell, Marge (2018-11-13). Karin Bergoo Larsson and the Emergence of Swedish Design. McFarland. pp. 43, 166. ISBN 978-1-4766-7406-3.
  2. ^ Ayral-Clause, Odile (2019-08-09). Camille Claudel: A Life. Plunkett Lake Press.
  3. ^ "Académie Colarossi". Artist Biographies. Artist Biographies Ltd. Registered in England and Wales. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Art Term – Académie Colarossi". Tate. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  6. ^ Edgar, Suzanne; Green, Dorothy (1986). "Muskett, Alice Jane (1869–1936)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  7. ^ Compton, Ann (1997). Edward Halliday: Art for Life, 1925-1939. Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies. Liverpool University Press. pp. 10, 44. ISBN 9780853239727.
  8. ^ Hughes, Edan Milton (1986). Artists in California, 1786-1940. Hughes Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0961611200.
  9. ^ "Hester Frood". The British Museum. Retrieved 2023-06-04.
  10. ^ Mathews, Nancy Mowll (1993). Charles Prendergast. Williamstown, MA.: Williams College Museum of Art. p. 10. ISBN 0-913697-16-8.
  11. ^ https://norahouston.org/about/ About Nora Houston - Nora Houston Foundation

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