Académie Suisse

Jean-Baptiste Corot : Quai des Orfèvres and Pont Saint-Michel , 1833. The numbering of the Quai des Orfèvres (left) began with number 2 at Pont Saint-Michel and ended at Pont-Neuf (in the foreground).

The Académie Suisse was a public institution founded in Paris in 1815 by the former model Charles Suisse , called "Père Suisse", which gave young artists who could not pay for their own model the opportunity to participate in the costs by making a small contribution to dedicate to nude studies in a communal studio .

It was not a conventional painting academy, but an independent studio that had been set up on the Île de la Cité at Pont Saint-Michel in a shabby house at number 4 on the Quai des Orfèvres, in which, among other things, a tooth-ripper well known in the city went about his business. No art lessons were given, no exams were taken or the works created there were evaluated. The cost-effective use of the studio, whose further advantage consisted in the employment of nude models, but above all the possibility of exchanging ideas with like-minded people, attracted many artists who later became famous to the Académie Suisse.

From the beginning of the 1860s, Monet, Pissarro, Cézanne and Guillaumin met in this studio. These encounters were significant for the founding of the Impressionist movement.

Artist of the Académie Suisse

• Paul Huet (1803–1869), French landscape painter
• Philippe-Auguste Jeanron (1808–1861), French painter, later director of the French national museums
• Honoré Daumier (1808–1879), French painter, sculptor, printmaker and caricaturist
• Antoine-Augustin Préault (1809–1879), also known as Auguste Préault, French sculptor
• François-Louis Français (1814–1897), French landscape painter, draftsman and graphic artist
• François Bonvin (1817–1887), French genre painter of realism
• Gustave Courbet (1819–1877), French realism painter
• Camille Pissarro (1830–1903), French impressionist
• Édouard Manet (1832-1883), French painter
• Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran (1837–1917), French painter, later director of the Académie de France à Rome
• Robert Wylie (1839–1877), American painter
• Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), French post-impressionist
• Philippe Solari (1840–1906), French sculptor
• Claude Monet (1840–1926), French impressionist
• Antoine Guillemet (1841–1918), French landscape painter
• Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927), French impressionist
• Jacek Malczewski (1854–1929), Polish symbolist
• Maximilien Luce (1858–1941), French late Impressionist painter
• Ernest Biéler (1863–1948), Swiss painter
• Sella Hasse (1878–1963), German painter

literature

• John Rewald: Histoire de l'Impressionisme . Paris, 1955, Albin Michel
• Gabriel P. Weisberg: Bonvin. Paris, 1979

Individual evidence

1. ^ M. Tompkins Lewis: La montée de Cézanne à Paris in Cézanne et Paris , catalog of the same name, exhibition shown from October 16, 2011 to February 26, 2012 at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris, Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 2011, Pp. 44-53.