Antoine Bourdelle

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Antoine Bourdelle, photo from 1925
Beethoven (location: Beethovenhalle Bonn)

Antoine Bourdelle (completely Émile-Antoine Bourdelle ; born October 30, 1861 in Montauban , Tarn-et-Garonne ; † October 1, 1929 in Le Vésinet , Yvelines department ) was a French sculptor and art teacher.

Life

Bourdelle left school at the age of 13 to work as a wood carver in his father's cabinet maker. He learned drawing from the founder of the Ingres Museum in Montauban, then sculpture at the art school in Toulouse . He then spent ten years at the École des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse and, at the age of 24, received a scholarship for the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Alexandre Falguière and later under Jules Dalou .

In 1888 he made his first sculptures by Beethoven . His work, filled with pathos and monumental demands, is characterized by rhythmic movement. He was one of the pioneers of monumental sculpture in the 20th century. Auguste Rodin admired his work, and from 1893 Bourdelle worked as Rodin's assistant. Bourdelle became a well-known teacher, both in Rodins and in his own studio. Many later important artists such as Henri Matisse and Alberto Giacometti received lessons from him, which he exerted considerable influence on sculpture. From 1909 until his death in 1929 he was a teacher at the important Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris.

In 1927, shortly after moving to Paris , the young German sculptor Arno Breker visited Bourdelle in his studio, where he especially admired the large portrait bust of Ludwig van Beethoven. Breker eventually became a collector himself.

Bourdelle died in 1929 at the age of 67 in Le Vésinet near Paris. He was buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris .

Bourdelle was the founder and vice president of the Salon des Tuileries in Paris . The Antoine Bourdelle Museum (address: 18, rue Antoine Bourdelle, 75015 Paris) consists of Bourdelle's house, studio and garden, where he worked from 1884 to 1929.

  • gallery

  • Self-portrait , around 1885

  • Hercules, the archer , original plaster 1909 "Musée Ingres-Bourdelle", Montauban

  • Sappho , 1887/1925, Schauspielhaus Cologne

  • Centaure Mourant , 1914, Montauban

  • Émile-Antoine Bourdelle (1861–1929) sculptor, art teacher. Cast bronze round sculpture, Pomona or Le Fruit from 1902–1911, Restaurant Garten of the Kunsthalle Basel. In 2009 the sculpture was restored. On behalf of the Basler Kunstverein with the support of the Society for the Good and Charitable Basel (GGG). The base supplied with the exhibition in Brussels was replaced in 1955. As early as 1929, right after the exhibition, where it could be seen in the middle of the first room on Steinenberg, it was made accessible to the entire population of Basel in the tree-lined square as an open-air sculpture. The bronze is u. a. signed with “Alexis Rudier, Fondeur. Paris".

    Sculpture Pomona or Le Fruit, restaurant garden of the Kunsthalle Basel

  • Émile-Antoine Bourdelle (1861–1929) sculptor, art teacher. Cast bronze round sculpture, Pomona or Le Fruit from 1902–1911, Restaurant Garten of the Kunsthalle Basel. In 2009 the sculpture was restored. On behalf of the Basler Kunstverein with the support of the Society for the Good and Charitable Basel (GGG). The base supplied with the exhibition in Brussels was replaced in 1955. As early as 1929, right after the exhibition, where it could be seen in the middle of the first room on Steinenberg, it was made accessible to the entire population of Basel in the tree-lined square as an open-air sculpture. The bronze is u. a. signed with «Alexis Rudier, Fondeur. Paris".

    Sculpture Pomona or Le Fruit, restaurant garden of the Kunsthalle Basel

  • Émile-Antoine Bourdelle (1861–1929) sculptor, art teacher. Cast bronze round sculpture, Pomona or Le Fruit from 1902–1911, Restaurant Garten of the Kunsthalle Basel. In 2009 the sculpture was restored on behalf of the Basler Kunstverein with the support of the Society for the Good and Charitable Basel (GGG). The base supplied with the exhibition in Brussels was replaced in 1955. As early as 1929, directly after the Kunsthalle exhibition, where it was on display in the middle of the first room on Steinenberg, it was made accessible to the entire population of Basel in the tree-lined square as a free sculpture. The bronze is u. a. signed with «Alexis Rudier, Fondeur. Paris".

    Inscription: Le Fruit - 1902–1911 - Émile-Antoine Bourdelle

Awards

Works

Student (selection)

Exhibitions

literature

  • Luigi Carluccio: The sacret and profane in Symbolist art . AGO, Toronto 1969 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, Art Gallery of Ontario , November 1 to November 26, 1969).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Kolberg, Karin Schuller-Procopovici (ed.): Sculpture in Cologne. 20th century images in the cityscape . Wienand-Verlag, Cologne 1988, page 49 (on behalf of the Museum Ludwig ).
  2. ↑ Page of the museum on the exhibition ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 22, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunsthaus.ch

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personal data
SURNAME Bourdelle, Antoine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bourdelle, Émile-Antoine (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor and art teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Montauban
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1929
Place of death Le Vésinet