Les Fusains
Les Fusains , also known as Cité des Fusains or Villa des Fusains , was an artist colony at 22, rue Tourlaque in the 18th arrondissement at the foot of Montmartre in Paris . The artists' apartments were in the main building and their studios in the adjacent garden. The artists who lived and worked there included Pierre Bonnard and André Derain at the beginning of the 20th century and Hans Arp , Sophie Taeuber-Arp , Max Ernst and Joan Miró from the 1920s .
history
The Ateliers Les Fusains were founded in 1887 by the Paris Ministry of Culture and have been dedicated to artists worldwide from the start. At that time, Paris was the capital of art. After the world exhibition in 1889 and the world exhibition in 1900 , some pavilions and sculptures were moved to this location.
Originally the entrance was on rue Steinlen. The artists of the facility kept in touch with the Bateau-Lavoir , also located on Montmartre , whose most famous resident was Pablo Picasso . In the 1920s, Les Fusains were expanded to rue de Tourlaque. Since 1963, the facility stands as monument historique of Paris under monument protection , currently five to six working artists in Les Fusains .
Origin of the designation
Like charbon, Fusain is a French name for coal. The charcoal is called fusain in French .
literature
- Sylvain Ageorges: Sur les traces des Expositions universelles Paris 1855–1937: A la recherche des pavillons et des monuments oubliés . Parigrams, Paris 2006, ISBN 978-2-8409-6444-5
Web links
- Les Fusains
- Montmartre Guide ( Memento from June 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Paris Révolutionnaire: Rue Tourlaque
- Photos of the garden on flickr
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ′ 18.7 " N , 2 ° 19 ′ 54.8" E