Académie de la Grande Chaumière

Entrance area of ​​the Académie de la Grande Chaumière

The Académie de la Grande Chaumière is an art academy on Montparnasse in Paris ( Rue de la Grande-Chaumière No. 14; Eng. "Street of the large thatched hut") in the 6th arrondissement . It was founded around 1902 and directed from 1909 to the end of 1943 by the Swiss painter Martha Stettler (1870–1945), her Baltic painter friend Alice Dannenberg (1861–1948) and Claudio Castelucho . It has been run by the Charpentier family since around 1950 - still in the same place.

The academy has been an open art school since it was founded, which means that there were no multi-year advanced courses. You could enroll for weeks, days or even by the hour in order to sketch with or without corrections by a teacher. The so-called “ croquis à cinq minutes ” (German: five-minute sketches) were particularly popular in the evening , when a model changed positions every five minutes.

Due to the open structure of the academy, there is hardly any archive material from which it would be possible to identify who was enrolled at the academy. In the first third of the 20th century it was the most famous art academy in Paris.

List of teachers before 1950

Plaque with the list of the first teachers

• Jacques-Émile Blanche
• Antoine Bourdelle
• Olga Boznańska (1865-1940)
• Claudio Castelucho
• Raphaël Collin (1850-1916)
• Gustave Courtois (1852-1923)
• André Dauchez (1870-1948)
• Etienne Dinet (1861–1929)
• Othon Friesz
• Eugène Grasset (1845–1917, active 1904–1913)
• Jean-Antoine Injalbert (1845-1933)
• René Ménard (1862-1930)
• Emile Peynot (1850-1932)
• René-Xavier Prinet (1861-1946)
• Walter Sickert
• Lucien Simon (1861-1945)
• Pierre Henri Vaillant (1878–1939)
• Charles Vincent (1862-1918)

List of teachers from 1950

• Fernand Leger
• André Lhote
• Ossip Zadkine

List of known students before 1945

Unica Bachmann-Calcoen Otto Charles Bänninger Balthus Anna Bornemann (1874–1956), German painter Arno Breker , 1927 Hélène de Beauvoir , at the AGC around 1927 Alf Bayrle (1900–1982), German painter, at the AGC around 1926 Serge Brignoni Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010); between 1935 and 1938 at the AGC Ernesto Canto da Maia (1890-1981) Alexander Calder (1898-1976); 1926 at the AGC Louis Conne Marie-Alain Couturier Charles Crodel Alice Dannenberg (1861-1948); between 1902 and 1943 at the AGC Alexandra Exter Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966); between 1922 and 1927 at the AGC Otto Gutfreund Étienne Hajdú Hans Hofmann Ernest Hubert René Iché Peter Janssen Editha Klipstein (1880–1953), German writer and journalist Zoia Korvin-Krukovsky André Lanskoy

Tamara de Lempicka Joan Miró André Noufflard Berthe Noufflard Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985); 1939 at the AGC Betty Parsons Wilfrid Perraudin Jean Piaubert Serge Poliakoff Otto Pankok (1893–1966), German painter, draftsman and sculptor Germaine Richier (1902-1959); between 1926 and 1929 at the AGC Katharina Sallenbach Kurt Seligmann Martha Stettler (1870-1945); between 1902 and 1943 at the AGC Victor Surbek Ernst Suter Arpad Scenes Bradley Walker Tomlin Varlin Christopher Wood Gretchen Wohlwill Irène Zurkinden ; 1929/30 at the AGC

List of well-known students from 1950

Burhan Cahit Doğançay Xavier Carbonell i Serra (1974, 1986) Karl Heinz Engelin Al hero Elmar Hillebrand Oskar Holweck Horst Egon Kalinowski Dani Karavan Erich Kraemer

Max Mertz Alicia Penalba Erwin Rehmann Jacques Schedler Matias Spescha Diederik Stevens Kumi Sugai André Thomkins

literature

• Corinne Linda Sotzek: LinkThe late impressionist Martha Stettler: in the field of tension between painting and academy management (1870-1945): (with catalog raisonné) , University of Zurich, 2017 Zurich, dissertation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cf. Corinne Linda Sotzek: LinkDie Spätimpressionistin Martha Stettler: in the field of tension between painting and academy management (1870-1945): (with catalog raisonné) , University of Zurich, 2017 Zurich, dissertation
2. ↑ See Laure Dalon: Émile-Antoine Bourdelle et l'enseignement de la sculpture , École des chartes, 2006 Paris, dissertation
3. ^ Art-Archive, Museum Europäische Kunst , July 2014.

Web links

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