Plan of the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris 2017

The Beaux-Arts de Paris is a French '' grande école'' whose primary mission is to provide high-level arts education and training. This is classical and historical School of

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in France. The art school, which is part of the

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, is located on two sites: Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris, and Saint-Ouen. The Parisian institution is made up of a complex of buildings located at 14 rue Bonaparte, between the quai Malaquais and the rue Bonaparte. This is in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, just across the Seine from the Louvre museum. The school was founded in 1648 by Charles Le Brun as the famed French academy '' Académie de peinture et de sculpture''. In 1793, at the height of the French Revolution, the institutes were suppressed. However, in 1817, following the

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, it was revived under a changed name after merging with the

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. Held under the King's tutelage until 1863, an imperial decree on November 13, 1863 named the school's director, who serves for a five-year term. Long supervised by the Ministry of Public Instruction, the École des Beaux-Arts is now a public establishment under the Ministry of Culture.

History

The Beaux-Arts de Paris is the original of a series of Écoles des beaux-arts in French regional centers. Since its founding in 1648, the

Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (; en, "Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture") was founded in 1648 in Paris, France. It was the premier art institution of France during the latter part of the Ancien Régime until it was abol ...

has had a school, France's

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institution of instruction in the arts. Its program was structured around a series of anonymous competitions that culminated in the ''grand prix de l'Académie Royale'', more familiar as the Grand Prix de Rome, for its winner was awarded a bourse and a place at the French Academy in Rome. During his stay in Rome, a ''pensionnaire'' was expected to send regular ''envois'' of his developing work back to Paris. Contestants for the ''Prix'' were assigned a theme from the literature of classical antiquity; their individual identities were kept secret to avoid any scandal of favoritism. With his final admission into the Académie, the new member had to present his fellow academicians a ''morceau de réception'', a painting or sculpture that demonstrated his learning, intelligence, and proficiency in his art.

Jacques-Louis David Jacques-Louis David (; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassicism, Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in ...

's '' Andromache Mourning Hector'' was his reception offering in 1783; today it is in the collections of the Louvre Museum. In 1793, during the French Revolution, the Académie Royale and the grand prix de l'Académie Royale were abolished, but only a few years later, in 1797, the Prix de Rome was re-established. Each year throughout the nineteenth century, the winner of the Prix de Rome was granted five years of study at the Villa Medici, after which the painter or sculptor could fully expect to embark on a successful official career. The program resulted in the accumulation of some great collections at the Académie, one of the finest collections of French drawings, many of them sent as ''envoies'' from Rome, as well as the paintings and sculptures, usually the winners, of the competitions, or ''

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s''. Lesser competitions, known as the ''petits concours'', took themes like history composition (which resulted in many sketches illustrating instructive moments from

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), expressions of the emotions, and full and half-figure painting. In its role as a teaching institution, the École assembled a large collection of Italian and French etchings and engravings, dating from the 16th through the 18th century. Such prints published the composition of paintings to a wide audience. The print collection was first made available to students outside the Académie in 1864. Today, studies include: painting, installation, graphic arts, photography, sculpture, digital media and video. Beaux-Arts de Paris provides the highest level of training in contemporary art production. Throughout history, many world-renowned artists have either taught or studied at this institution. The faculty is made up of recognized international artists. Theoretical courses permitting diverse approaches to the history of the arts complement studio work, which is supported by technical training and access to technical bases. The media center provides students with rich documentation on art, and organizes conferences, seminars, and debates throughout the year. The School buildings have architectural interest and house prestigious historical collections and an extensive fine arts library. The school publishes a dozen texts per year on different collections, and holds exhibitions ranging from the school's excellent collection of old-master drawings to the most up to date contemporary works, in the Quai Malaquais space and the Chapel throughout the year.

Collections

The school owns circa 450,000 items divided between artworks and historical books, making it one of the largest public art collections in France. The collection encompasses many types of artistic productions, from painting and sculpture to etching, furniture or decorated books and from all the periods of art history. Many pieces of the collection are artworks created by students of the School throughout its history but former students and scholars also contributed to enlarge the holdings with many gifts and donations to the institution. The collection consists in approximatively 2,000 paintings (including pictures by

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, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Hubert Robert and

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), 600 pieces of decorative arts, 600 architectural elements, nearly 15,000 medals, 3,700 sculptures, 20,000 drawings including works by

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, Primaticcio,

Jacques Bellange Jacques Bellange (c. 1575–1616) was an artist and printmaker from the Duchy of Lorraine (then independent but now part of France) whose etchings and some drawings are his only securely identified works today. They are among the most striking No ...

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, Charles Le Brun, Nicolas Poussin, Claude Gellée, Dürer,

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François Boucher François Boucher ( , ; ; 29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories ...

Pierre Alechinsky Pierre Alechinsky (born 19 October 1927) is a Belgian artist. He has lived and worked in France since 1951. His work is related to tachisme, abstract expressionism, and lyrical abstraction. Life Alechinsky was born in Schaerbeek. In 1944 he att ...

, 45,000 architectural drawings, 100,000 etchings and engravings, 70,000 photographs (mainly form the period 1850–1914), 65,000 books dating from the 15th to the 20th century (3,500 for the 15th and 16th centuries), and 1,000 handwritten pieces of archive (letters, inventories, notes...) and also 390 important fragments or complete illuminated manuscripts.

Campus

The physical setting of the school stands on about two hectares in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés section of Paris. The main entrance at 14 Rue Bonaparte is flanked by colossal carved heads of

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and

(done in 1838 by Michel-Louis Victor Mercier). Before 1816, Beaux-Arts students were taught elsewhere. This land had been the convent of the Petits Augustins, then the site of

Alexandre Lenoir Marie Alexandre Lenoir (27 December 1761 – 11 June 1839) was a French archaeologist. Self-taught, he devoted himself to saving France's historic monuments, sculptures and tombs from the ravages of the French Revolution, notably those of Basiliqu ...

's collection of architectural fragments from across France, the

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, assembled here as a result of the destruction of churches and noble chateaux during the revolution. In 1830, architect Félix Duban, a former student and winner of the Grand Prix de Rome, began a transformation of the site by demolishing a few existing houses, moving back the convent's cloister on the right to produce a symmetrical courtyard, and designing the largest central building, the Palais des Études. Duban simply incorporated many of Lenoir's historical fragments, notably the portal of the 1548 Château d'Anet, and in the courtyard a facade from the

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, since removed and returned to its original site in 1977. Paul Delaroche - Hémicycle

In other ways Duban meant the entire complex as an open-air encyclopedia for artists and architects. The Palais des Études building features elaborate frescoes, the stairwells demonstrate various wall finishes, and the courtyard (glassed over by Duban in 1863) once held classical statuary and full-size copies of the columns of the Parthenon for study. The core of the complex is a semi-circular award theater within the Palais, the Hémicycle d'Honneur, where the prizes were awarded. Duban commissioned Paul Delaroche to produce a great mural, 27 metres long, to represent seventy-five great artists of all ages, in conversation, assembled in groups. In the middle are three thrones occupied by the creators of the Parthenon: sculptor Phidias, architect Ictinus, and painter

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, symbolizing the unity of these arts. The mural took Delaroche three and a half years to complete, and it still stands as a powerful expression of the Beaux-Arts collaborative ideal. Duban continued to expand and improve the complex for decades. Other major buildings include the 1820 Bâtiment des Loges, the modified cloister now called the Cour des Mûriers, the 1862 Bâtiment des Expositions which extended the campus to the Quai Malaquias, the

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built circa 1750 and acquired by the school in 1884, and a block of studios constructed circa 1945 in concrete by Auguste Perret.

Palais des Études

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Chapel

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Academic staff

Directors

Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume Jean-Baptiste Claude Eugène Guillaume (4 July 1822, Montbard – 1 March 1905, Rome) was a French sculptor. Biography He was born at Montbard on the Côte-d'Or. He studied under Cavelier, Millet, and Barrias, at the École des Beaux-Arts, wh ...

, 1864–1878 *

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, 1878 *

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* Yves Michaud, 1989–1997 *

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Nicolas Untersteller Nicolas Untersteller (1900–1967) was a French painter. Early life He was born in Stiring-Wendel, Lorraine, during the first German annexation. After studies at the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg from 1921 to 1923, he joined the Eco ...

1948 * Jean-Didier Wolframm * Henry-Claude Cousseau * Nicolas Bourriaud, 2011–2015 *

Jean-Marc Bustamante Jean-Marc Bustamante (born 1952 in Toulouse) is a French artist, painter, sculptor and photographer. He is a noted conceptual and installation artist and has incorporated ornamental design and architectural space in his works. Career Bustamante ...

, 2015–2019 *

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, 2019–2021 *

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, 2022-

Notable instructors

* Marina Abramović *

Louis-Jules André Louis-Jules André (24 June 1819 – 30 January 1890) was a French academic architect and the head of an important ''atelier'' at the École des Beaux-Arts. Biography Born in Paris, André attended the École des Beaux-Arts and took the Prix ...

* Maurice Benayoun *

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* Christian Boltanski * Duchenne de Boulogne *

* Alexandre Cabanel *

Pierre Carron Pierre Carron (16 December 1932 – 19 March 2022) was a French sculptor and painter, especially known for his portrayals of children and natural landscapes. Biography Born in Fécamp, Normandy, France, he primarily studied drawing at the École ...

Béatrice Casadesus Béatrice Casadesus (born 1 January 1942) is a French painter and sculptor, and professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other post-secondary education and research in ...

Jean-François Chevrier Jean-François Chevrier is an art theorist and historian, art critic and exhibition curator. He lives and works in Paris. He is Professor in the History of Contemporary Art at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, after havin ...

* César * Nina Childress *

Claude Closky Claude Closky (born 22 May 1963) is a French Contemporary Artist who lives and works in Paris, France. Reception Closky won the "Grand prix des Arts plastiques" (1999) and the Marcel Duchamp Prize (2005) awarded by the ADIAF. Dike Blair wro ...

* Richard Deacon *

Olivier Debré Olivier Debré (14 April 1920 – 1 June 1999) was a French abstract painter. Biography It was following a visit to Pablo Picasso’s studio in 1941 that Olivier Debré, an honoured artist and member of the French Academy, moved from figura ...

* Louis Girault *

Julien Guadet Julien Guadet (1834–1908) was a French architect, theoretician and professor at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of Fran ...

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* Victor Laloux *

Jean-Paul Laurens Jean-Paul Laurens (; 28 March 1838 – 23 March 1921) was a French painter and sculptor, and one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style. Biography Laurens was born in Fourquevaux and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexand ...

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* Charles Le Brun *

Henri Lehmann Henri Lehmann (; 14 April 1814 – 30 March 1882) was a German-born French historical painter and portraitist. Life Born Heinrich Salem Lehmann in Kiel, in the Duchy of Holstein, he received his first art tuition from his father Leo Lehmann ( ...

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Antonin Mercié Marius Jean Antonin Mercié (October 30, 1845 in Toulouse – December 12, 1916 in Paris), was a French sculptor, medallist and painter. Biography Mercié entered the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and studied under Alexandre Falguière and ...

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Jean-Louis Pascal Jean-Louis Pascal (4 June 1837 – 17 May 1920) was an academic French architect. Life Born in Paris, Pascal was taught at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts by Émile Gilbert and Charles-Auguste Questel. He won the Grand Pri ...

* Auguste Perret *

Emmanuel Pontremoli Emmanuel Pontremoli (13 January 1865 – 25 July 1956) was a French architect and archaeologist. Biography Born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, a student in the ''atelier'' of Louis-Jules André, in 1890 he won the Prix de Rome in the architectur ...

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Charles-Caïus Renoux Charles-Caius Renoux (born in Paris, 1795; died in Paris, 14 March 1846) was a French painter, lithographer, and illustrator. He first achieved success with paintings of medieval churches, particularly the ruins of cloisters and monasteries destro ...

* Jean-Joseph Sue, father * Jean-Joseph Sue, son *

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Notable alumni

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, painter *

Nadir Afonso Nadir Afonso, Order of St. James of the Sword, GOSE (4 December 1920 – 11 December 2013) was a Portuguese Geometric abstract art, geometric abstractionist painter. Formally trained in architecture, which he practiced early in his career with L ...

, painter *

Paul Ahyi Paul Ahyi (January 15, 1930 – January 4, 2010) was a Togolese artist, sculptor, architect, painter, interior designer and author. Ahyi is credited with designing of the flag of Togo. Ahyi was known for his massive outdoor artworks, reliefs ...

, painter, sculptor, designer of the flag of Togo * Theo Akkermann, German sculptor *

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, sculpture, painting, and architecture * Rodolfo Amoedo, painting * Beatrice Valentine Amrhein, painting *

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, painting *

Émile André François-Émile André (August 22, 1871 – March 10, 1933) was a French architect, artist, and furniture designer. He was the son of the architect of Charles André and the father of two other architects, Jacques and Michel André. Life ...

, architecture *

Ximena Armas Ximena Armas (born 29 July 1946 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean painter. Biography Ximena Armas Fernández first attended the Escuela de Bellas Artes at the Universidad de Chile, then the Escuela de Artes at the Universidad Católica de Chile ...

, painting *

Yolande Ardissone Yolande Ardissone (born 6 June 1927) is a French painter. Born in Bueil ( Normandy), she studied at the Beaux-Arts and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris. She met Jaques Eitel - who was going to become her husband - during a trip ...

, painting *

Léon Azéma Léon Azéma (20 January 1888 – 1 March 1978) was a French architect. He is responsible for many public works in France, especially in and around Paris. His most famous work is 1937 Palais de Chaillot, facing the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Early ...

, architecture * Théodore Ballu, architecture *

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, sculpture *

Ahmed Benyahia Ahmed Benyahia ( ar, أحمد بن يحيى; born in Constantine, Algeria, on 11 May 1943) is an Algerian artist. He is a notable alumnus of the ''École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts'' of Paris, where as a student in the late 1960s he p ...

, painting, sculpture, film * Jean-Francois Bocle, painter *

Ernest Boiceau Ernest Boiceau (30 November 1881 – 16 March 1950), born in French-speaking Lausanne, was a Swiss designer and decorator of the interwar period. Biography Born in a family of bankers, Ernest Boiceau received training in Munich, then studied d ...

, drawing, painting and architecture * Maurice Boitel, painting *

Michel Bouvet Michel Bouvet (born 1955 in Tunis) is a French designer and poster artist. He is professor of visual culture at ESAG Penninghen (Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,4 ...

, designer & poster artist *

Antoine Bourdelle Antoine Bourdelle (30 October 1861 – 1 October 1929), born Émile Antoine Bordelles, was an influential and prolific French sculptor and teacher. He was a student of Auguste Rodin, a teacher of Giacometti and Henri Matisse, and an important fi ...

, sculpture *

David Tai Bornoff David Tai Bornoff (born 1980 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American writer, Advertising Creative Director, photographer, film director and multimedia artist. His work has been exhibited internationally and his writing featured in many fashion and mus ...

, installation, multi-media, film *

Bernard Buffet Bernard Buffet (; 10 July 1928 – 4 October 1999) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. He produced a varied and extensive body of work. His style was exclusively figurative. The artist enjoyed worldwide popularity early in his caree ...

, painting * Antoine Camilleri, painting *

Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe (4 August 1913, Cambrai – 11 January 1998, Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, Antony), was a noted French urban sociology, urban sociologist. He was strongly influenced by the Chicago school (sociology), Chicago school and was a ...

. sociologist *

Olivia Chaumont Olivia Chaumont (born October 30, 1950) is a French architect and transgender activist. Education Chaumont graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1978. She completed training as an architect at the Institut d'urbanism ...

, architect and transgender activist *

Eugène Chigot Eugène Henri Alexandre Chigot (1860 – 1923) was a post impressionist French painter. A pupil of his father, the military painter Alphonse Chigot, in 1881 he entered the internationally renowned École des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he was e ...

, painting *

Georgette Cottin-Euziol Georgette Cottin-Euziol (7 May 1926 - 11 April 2004) was a French Algerian architect, one of the first women architects in both countries. Early life Georgette Cottin was born on 7 May 1926 at El Affroun in Algeria, daughter of Céline Rosalie ...

, French Algerian architect *

Aimé-Jules Dalou Aimé-Jules Dalou (31 December 183815 April 1902) was a 19th-century French sculptor, admired for his perceptiveness, execution, and unpretentious realism. Early life Born in Paris to a working-class family of Huguenot background, he was raised ...

, sculpture *

Henri-Camille Danger Henri-Camille Danger (1857 – 1939) was a French artist known for history paintings, allegorical and mythological subjects, genre scenes, landscapes and designs for tapestries. Early life and education Henri-Camille was the son of Jules Félix ...

, painting *

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, architecture *

, painting * Gabriel Davioud, architecture *

, painting *

Edgar Degas Edgar Degas (, ; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, ; 19 July 183427 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Degas also produced bronze sculptures, prints and drawings. Degas is es ...

, painting * Eugène Delacroix, painting * Marie-Antoinette Demagnez, sculpture * Jean Desbois, architecture * Louis Deschamps, painting * Paul Devautour, installation, multi-media * Jean Dries, painting * Félix Duban, architecture * Dominique Duplantier, drawing, painting and architecture *

Henri Evenepoel Henri-Jacques-Edouard Evenepoel (3 October 1872 in Nice – 27 December 1899 in Paris) was a Belgian artist whose most important works are associated with Fauvism. Life and career Evenepoel first studied art in Brussels at the Académie Royale ...

, painting * Fang Ganmin, painting, sculpture *

Anne Flournoy Anne Flournoy (born April 28, 1952) is an American writer, producer and film director, best known for the webseries '' The Louise Log''.

, filmmaker * Jean-Honoré Fragonard, painting * Valentino Garavani, fashion designer * Charles Garnier, architecture * Tony Garnier, architecture *

Eliahu Gat Eliahu Gat ( he, אליהו גת; 1919–1987) was an Israeli landscape painter. Biography Eliahu Gulkowitz (later Gat) at was born in 1919 in the small town of Dokshitz in what is now Belarus, to a Lithuanian Jewish Zionist family. In 1926, the f ...

, painting *

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, painting, sculpture * Théodore Géricault, painting * Hubert de Givenchy, fashion designer * Louis Girault, architecture * Jacques Gréber, landscape architect * Aaron Goodelman, sculptor * Liliana Gramberg, printmaker and painter * Michael Gross, painter and sculptor *

, architecture *

Yves Hernot Yves Hernot is the name of two sculptors, father and son, who ran the ''Ateliers Yves Hernot'' sculpture workshop in Lannion, Brittany, which specialised in creating Calvary (sculpture), Calvaries and tombs. Hernot senior Yves Hernot senior (182 ...

, Painting and Surrealistic photos *

Emil Hünten Emil Johannes Hünten (19 January 1827 – 1 February 1902) was a German military painter. His works were often lithographed. Biography Born in Paris on 19 January 1827, the son of the composer, Franz Hünten, he studied art under Hippolyte ...

, painter * Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, painting *

Charles Isabelle Charles-Edouard Isabelle (1800–1880) was a French architect. Life Isabelle studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris between 1818 and 1824 with Achille Leclère. In 1828 he was inspector of works at the Madeleine church in Paris. Isabelle taught ...

, architecture *

Robert Jay Wolff Robert Jay Wolff (1905–1978) was an early pioneer of the American abstract art. His paintings are in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum and the Guggenheim. Born in Chicago, Illinois, he attended Yale University and the Ecole Des Beaux Arts ...

, painting, sculpture *

Amédée Joullin Amédée Joullin (3 June 1862, in San Francisco – 3 February 1917, in San Francisco) was a French American painter whose work centered on the landscapes of California and on Native Americans. Biography He was born in San Francisco to French ...

, painting *

Bernadette Kanter Bernadette Kanter is a French sculptor born in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray (Normandy) in 1950, her preferred material is bronze. Biography In 1974, after studying at the College of artistic careers of Paris (ICART), at the École nationale supér ...

, sculptor *

Majida Khattari Majida Khattari (born 1966) is a Moroccan-born French multidisciplinary contemporary artist. Her work often addresses fashion and women’s bodies in contemporary Islam. She is known for her staged fashion show performances, which connect Western- ...

, multidisciplinary artist * Ludwik Konarzewski, painting and sculpture *

Jules Benoit-Lévy Jules Benoit-Lévy (27 February 1866 – 14 March 1952) was a French painter and printmaker. Biography Benoit-Lévy was born in Paris. He was the son of Baruch Benoit-Lévy (1821–1884) and Julie Strasburger (1826–1901). At the Paris Sc ...

, painting * Victor Laloux, architecture *

Armand Laroche Armand Laroche (1826 – 1903), also known as Amand Laroche, was a French painter, who specialized in portraits and genre painting. Biography Born in Saint-Cyr-l'École (Seine-et-Oise). Arman Laroche was studying at École des beaux-arts ...

, painting * Alexandre-Louis Leloir painting and illustration *

Liem Bwan Tjie Liem Bwan Tjie (6 September 1891 – 28 July 1966) was a prominent architect, and a pioneering figure of modern Indonesian architecture. He belonged to the first generation of professionally trained Indonesian architects. Early life and educati ...

, architect *

Lin Fengmian Lin Fengmian (; November 22, 1900 – August 12, 1991), originally Lin Fengming (), was a Chinese painter and is considered a pioneer of modern Chinese painting for blending Chinese and Western styles, he was one of the earliest Chinese painters ...

, painting *

Frédérique Lucien Frédérique Lucien (born September 28, 1960 in Briançon, France) is a French visual artist, works in drawing, painting and ceramics. Biography Frédérique Lucien graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1 ...

, painting *

Albert Marquet Albert Marquet (27 March 1875 – 14 June 1947) was a French painter, associated with the Fauvist movement. He initially became one of the Fauve painters and a lifelong friend of Henri Matisse. Marquet subsequently painted in a more naturali ...

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Edgar Maxence Edgard Maxence (; 17 September 1871 – 31 July 1954) was a French Symbolist painter. Life He was taught by Elie Delaunay and Gustave Moreau at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He is a contemporary of Henri Evenepoel, Jules Flandrin J ...

, painting *

, installation, multi-media * Vann Molyvann, architecture * Claude Monet, painting *

, painting * Julia Morgan, architecture, first woman to graduate from the school * Michel Mossessian, architecture * Marie Muracciole, curator, art critic *

Camila Oliveira Fairclough Camila Oliveira Fairclough (born 1979) is a Brazilian and British artist who lives in Paris. Early life Camila Oliveira Fairclough was born in 1979 at Rio de Janeiro. She studied at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (Rio de Janeiro) ...

, painter *

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alias Yung Len Kwui, painting * Alphonse Osbert, painting *

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, painting *

, architecture * Edward Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany, painting and sculpture * Christian de Portzamparc, architecture,

Pritzker Prize The Pritzker Architecture Prize is an international architecture award presented annually "to honor a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produ ...

laureate (1994) *

Théophile Poilpot Théophile Poilpot (20 March 1848, Paris – 6 February 1915, Paris), also known as Théophile-François-Henri Poilpot, was a French panorama painter. Biography Théophile Poilpot was born and lived all his life in Paris. His father, who shar ...

, painting *

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, painting *

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, painting * Alfred-Georges Regner, painting, engraving *

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, painting *

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, painting *

Hannes Rosenow Hannes Rosenow (5 May 1925 in Ratibor – 28 July 2000 in Munich) was a German portrait and landscape painter. Biography After his graduation from the gymnasium in Ratibor in Upper Silesia, military draft and release from military internment ...

, painting *

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, painting *

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, sculptor and painter *

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, sculpture *

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, painting *

Mahmoud Sehili Mahmoud Sehili (27 July 1931 – 10 October 2015) was a Tunisian painter. Biography Sehili was born in Tunis; his father was a fisherman and his mother an embroiderer. He developed a passion for music and learned the oud. After studying at the Tun ...

, painter * Joann Sfar, design * Alfred Sisley, painting *

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, painting * Clement Nye Swift, painting * Siavash Teimouri, architect and historian of architecture *

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, sculpture *

Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas (11 August 1847 – 1907) was a French architect. Thomas was born in Marseilles, and was a student of Alexis Paccard and Leon Vaudoyer at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He won the first Prix de Rome in 18 ...

, architecture *

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, design * Morton Traylor, painting *

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, architecture *

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, sculpture *

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, painting *

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, painting *

Yan Wenliang Yan Wenliang (; 20 July 1893 – 1 May 1988) was a Chinese painter and educator, who is regarded as one of the fathers of Chinese oil painting and an important art educator of his time. Born in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, Yan began studying painti ...

, painting

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References

Review of ""Dieux et Mortels"
a travelling exhibition of paintings and sculpture models from the collection of the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, 2004 * fr:Beaux-Arts de Paris

External links

Beaux-Arts de Paris website
{{Authority control Art schools in Paris École des Beaux-Arts Grands établissements Buildings and structures in the 6th arrondissement of Paris 1648 establishments in France Educational institutions established in the 1640s •Ecole Nationale

History

Collections

Campus

Palais des Études

Chapel

Academic staff

Directors

Notable instructors

Notable alumni

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See also

References

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