Académie Colarossi

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Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 32.5 "  N , 2 ° 19 ′ 50.6"  E

Course by Alfons Mucha
Nude class in the Academie Colarossi, around 1901, photograph by Clive Holland

The Académie Colarossi was a private art academy founded in the 19th century by the Italian sculptor Filippo Colarossi (1841-1914) at 10 Rue de la Grande-Chaumière, 6th Arrondissement , in Paris . It represented an alternative to the state art school École des Beaux-Arts , which was far too conservative in the opinion of young artists.

Like the Académie Julian , the Académie Colarossi accepted female students, whom it allowed to paint from male nude models . In the field of sculpture, too, the academy attracted many students from abroad, including a large number of students from the United States.

In 1910 the Progressive Academy appointed the New Zealand artist Frances Hodgkins (1869–1947) as its first female teacher.

The school closed in 1930. In retaliation for her husband's marital infidelity, Madame Colarossi burned the archives shortly before the school closed.

List of teachers at the Académie Colarossi (selection)

List of students at the Académie Colarossi (selection)

literature

  • Emmanuel Bénézit (ed.): Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . New edition Grund, Paris 1999ff.

Web links

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