Académie Vitti

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Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 40.6 ″  N , 2 ° 19 ′ 20.1 ″  E

Académie Vitti, 1905, original photo in the Casa Museo Académie Vitti in Atina
Sketch of Paula Modersohn-Becker's studio , 1906, Paula Modersohn-Becker Foundation, Bremen
Diana by Frederick William MacMonnies , modeled for by Maria Caira in 1889
Anna Caira , unknown painter, between 1890 and 1914, Casa Museo Académie Vitti in Atina
Giacinta Caira by Luc-Olivier Merson , between 1894 and 1914, dedicated to Giacinta Caira, Casa Museo Académie Vitti in Atina
Maria Caira, approx. 1890 to 1900, original photo in the Casa Museo Académie Vitti in Atina
2nd class medal from the Académie Vitti for Helen Farnsworth Mears from 1897. Inscription: Académie Vitti - Medáille de 2 Classe - M lle Mears - 1897

The Académie Vitti was a private art academy in the Notre-Dame-des-Champs district in Paris , at 49 Boulevard du Montparnasse in the 6th arrondissement . The academy existed from 1894 to 1914.

academy

The academy was founded in 1894 by Cesare Vitti (* Casalvieri ) and his wife Maria (* 1872 in Gallinaro , † 1949), née Caira (daughter of Silvio and Domenica Caira). The academy also accepted female students who were allowed to work on male nude models. In the field of painting and sculpture , the academy attracted students from many countries, including a large number of students from the United States and Latin America . Maria herself was a model in the academy, as were her two sisters Anna (* 1879 in Gallinaro; † 1916) and Giacinta (* 1882 in Gallinaro; † 1947), which they did for various painters and sculptors before the academy was founded . If anyone asked Pablo Picasso about a good art school , such as Carlos Mauricio Valenti Perrillat and Carlos Mérida , he recommended the Académie Vitti. Carmen Rossi, née Caira, cousin of the three sisters and director of the Académie Carmen, was quite jealous of the success. Cesare Vitti and the sisters were so appalled by the outbreak of World War I that they closed the Academy in 1914 and moved to Italy , except for Anna, who was now living with her husband Henry Antoine Meilheurat des Pruraux.

Studios

The Vittis also rented studios in the same building, or at least one studio. At the end of October 1906 Paula Modersohn-Becker moved into a studio there. It is unclear whether she also took part in courses at the academy. In 1906 she sketched the studio on an envelope. On the left in the studio hung the painting Portrait of Lee Hoetger in front of Blumengrund (wife of Bernhard Hoetger ), on the right next to it woman with cat and parrot and on the right wall Mother and Child II . At the end of March 1907 she traveled back to Worpswede with Otto Modersohn and left behind some furniture and things. On April 5, she wrote to Rainer Maria Rilke that he could get what he wanted from the facility and sell the rest to a junk dealer. Apparently the interest was not great or he did not have time, because four months later, on August 10, 1907, she wrote to Rilke:

"So Bd. Montparnasse 49 with Mme Vitti you have to go ahead and ask what still exists of my estate: somnier with a mattress, a large mirror, two chairs, two tables was the most important and all kinds of equipment."

In 1904 the painter Pierre Amédée Marcel-Béronneau (1869–1937) had a studio in the house, the painter CF Costerton from 1904 to at least 1908, the sculptor Luca Madrassi (1848–1919) in 1907 and the American painter and etcher Clifford Addams in 1901 and 1902 (1876–1942), who was also researching at the time for pictures by James McNeill Whistler , which Maria Vitti's cousin, Carmen Rossi, stole from Whistler's studio without Whistler's knowledge and partly sold after Whistler had the Académie Carmen closed. In June 1902, he wrote to Whistler that Maria Vitti publicly mocked Carmen Rossi's poverty.

museum

The small museum Casa Museo Académie Vitti was opened on August 17, 2013 in Atina , Italy . On the ground floor of the former house of Cesare Vitti and the three sisters, photos that were taken in the academy and drawings by the students of the Académie Vitti are shown, as well as postcards and photos from the time before, when the three sisters were with various photographers like Nadar or Charles Naudet, painters and sculptors modeled. 1889 was, for example, Maria Caira when she was not yet married to Cesare, for Diana by Frederick William MacMonnies model. MacMonnies received an Honorable Mention for the life-size sculpture in the Paris Salon in 1889 . MacMonnies later taught sculpture at the Académie Vitti.

Known teachers

Known students

See also

Other Paris art schools

Web links

Commons : Académie Vitti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cousin of the three Caira sisters (below) (Italian page in Google Translate )
  2. ↑ Information on the Paula Modersohn Becker studio
  3. ^ Biography section 1906 below
  4. ^ Letter to Rainer Maria Rilke (English)
  5. ^ Biography section 1907 middle
  6. ↑ Address in the exhibition catalog (digitized online)
  7. ↑ Address 1904 in the exhibition catalog (digitized online)
  8. ↑ Address 1908 ( memento of October 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) in the exhibition catalog (digitized online)
  9. ↑ Address 1907 in the exhibition catalog (digitized online)
  10. ^ Address on several letters from Addams to James McNeill Whistler
  11. ^ Letter to Whistler, June 1902
  12. ↑ MacMonnies in the exhibition catalog from 1889 (digitized online)
  13. ↑ Awards from the Paris Salon of 1889 with MacMonnies under Section De Sculpture in an article on the Salon of 1889 (digitized online)
  14. ↑ Text on the museum and the academy (Italian)
  15. ↑ Text on the museum and the academy (Italian)
  16. ↑ Assistant to María Gutiérrez Blanchard (English text)
  17. ↑ Mention of the medal in an exhibition catalog from 1902 by the Art Institute of Chicago , page 54 (digitized online)
  18. ↑ Dating ( memento of November 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) of the medal