The Académie de la Grande Chaumière () is an
art school
An art school is an educational institution with a primary focus on practice and related theory in the visual arts and design. This includes fine art – especially illustration, painting, contemporary art, sculpture, and graphic design. T ...
in the
Montparnasse district of Paris,
France
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.
History
The school was founded in 1904 by the Catalan painter
Claudio Castelucho on the rue de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, near the
Académie Colarossi.
From 1909, the Académie was jointly directed by painters
Martha Stettler,
Alice Dannenberg, and
Lucien Simon. The school, which was devoted to painting and sculpture, did not teach the strict academic rules of painting of the
École des Beaux-Arts
; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centu ...
, thus producing art free of academic constraints. One attraction was the low fees, even lower than those of the
Académie Julian
The () was a private art school for painting and sculpture founded in Paris, France, in 1867 by French painter and teacher Rodolphe Julian (1839–1907). The school was active from 1868 through 1968. It remained famous for the number and qual ...
(which had to be paid in advance). It was said about the school that all that was provided was a model and warmth in the winter.
In 1957, the Académie de la Grande Chaumière was acquired by the Charpentier family, founders of the Charpentier Academy. It still operates under its original name, and provides two free workshops, one for painting and drawing, the other for sketches, as well as evening classes.
The Académie's building owner Yves Salats died in 2017, and the building was inherited by three different associations which decided to auction it for sale in 2018. The psychanalist Serge Zagdanski was named director of the Académie in 2018.
Teachers
Former students
References
Sources
*Dr. Eric Cabris, Ph.D., ''Biografie van kunstschilder Ghislaine de Menten de Horne (1908–1995),'' Brussels, V.U.B., 2008, p. 4, footnote 3.
*Antoine Bourdelle, Laure Dalon, ''Cours & leçons à l'Académie de la Grande Chaumière, 1909–1929'', Paris : Paris-Musées : Ed. des Cendres, 2008.
External links
Official site
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1904 establishments in France
Académie de la Grande Chaumière
Buildings and structures in the 6th arrondissement of Paris