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Académie Colarossi

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The Académie Colarossi (1870–1930) was an art school in Paris founded in 1870 by the Italian model and sculptor Filippo Colarossi.{{Cite book|last=Thorell|first=Marge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NOh3DwAAQBAJ|title=Karin Bergoo Larsson and the Emergence of Swedish Design|date=2018-11-13|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-7406-3|pages=43, 166|language=en}} It was originally located on the Île de la Cité, and it moved in 1879 to 10 rue de la Grande-Chaumière in the 6th arrondissement. The school closed in the 1930s.

History

A precursor art school in the same location was the Académie Suisse, founded in 1815.{{Cite book|last=Ayral-Clause|first=Odile|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4z6oDwAAQBAJ|title=Camille Claudel: A Life|date=2019-08-09|publisher=Plunkett Lake Press|language=en}} The former Académie Suisse location on the Île de la Cité was bought by Italian sculptor Filippo Colarossi in 1870, and in 1879 it moved to 10 rue de la Grande-Chaumière in the 6th arrondissement.{{Cite web|title=Académie Colarossi|url=https://www.artbiogs.co.uk/2/schools/academie-colarossi|access-date=2020-06-17|website=Artist Biographies|publisher=Artist Biographies Ltd. Registered in England and Wales}}{{Cite book|last=Greet|first=Michele|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G9lLDwAAQBAJ|title=Transatlantic Encounters: Latin American Artists in Paris Between the Wars|date=2018|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=978-0-300-22842-7|pages=44|language=en}}

The Académie was established in the 19th century as an alternative to the government-sanctioned École des Beaux Arts that had, in the eyes of many promising young artists at the time, become far too conservative. Along with its equivalent Académie Julian, and unlike the official École des Beaux Arts, the Colarossi school accepted female students and allowed them to draw from the nude male model.{{Cite web|title=Art Term – Académie Colarossi|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/academie-colarossi|access-date=2020-06-17|website=Tate|language=en-GB}}

Around 1879, two salon painters taught the Académie classes, the Japanese-influenced painter Raphaël Collin and French academic-style painter Gustave Courtois. Among its other instructors were the influential French sculptor, Jean Antoine Injalbert and painter Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret. In 1893, the progressive Académie appointed the American artist Wilhelmina Douglas Hawley (1860–1958) as its first female teacher.

In 1922, sculptor Henry Moore attended, although not as a student. Moore took life-drawing classes that were open to the general public, paid for with a book of inexpensive tickets. The evening classes were progressively timed – one hour, then 20 minutes, then five minutes, then one – to develop various drawing skills.

The school closed in the 1930s. Around that time, Madame Colarossi burned the priceless school archives in retaliation for her husband's philandering.

Notable alumni

At Académie Colarossi among the female attendees were german painter Thea Schleusner, Amedeo Modigliani's muse, Jeanne Hébuterne; Scottish Impressionist Bessie MacNicol; Canadian Impressionist Emily Carr; and French sculptor Camille Claudel, who was also a student of Rodin's. Noted also for its classes in life sculpting, the school attracted many foreign students, including a large number from the United States.

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|Austria

|Zofia Albinowska-Minkiewiczowa – Aloys Wach

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|Australia

|Alice Muskett{{cite web |last1=Edgar |first1=Suzanne |last2=Green |first2=Dorothy |title=Muskett, Alice Jane (1869–1936) |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/muskett-alice-jane-7717 |website=Australian Dictionary of Biography |publisher=Australian National University |access-date=14 April 2019 |date=1986}}

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|Bulgaria

|Pascin

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|Canada

|Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith – Emily Carr – Ralston Crawford – Prudence Heward – George Loftus Noyes – Maurice Prendergast – George Agnew Reid – Boardman Robinson – Marc Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté

{{flagicon|China}}

|China

|Georgette Chen

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|Czech Republic

|František Bílek – Josef Čapek – Alfons Mucha

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|Denmark

|Cecilie Dahl

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|Ecuador

|Camilo Egas

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|Estonia

|Adamson-Eric – Konrad Mägi – Karl Pärsimägi – Nikolai Triik – Eduard Wiiralt

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|Finland

|Helene Schjerfbeck – Ellen Thesleff

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|France

|Hélène de Beauvoir – Camille Claudel – Paul Gauguin – Marcel Gromaire – Jeanne Hébuterne – Jean Lurçat – Émile Schuffenecker – Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen – Fabien Fabiano

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|Germany

|Karl Albert Buehr – George Grosz – Hans Hofmann – Wilhelm Lehmbruck – Paula Modersohn-Becker

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|Greece

|Sophia Laskaridou

{{flagicon|Hungary}}

|Hungary

|Emile Lahner – Camilla Koffler (Ylla)

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|Ireland

|Eileen Gray

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|Italy

|Romaine Brooks – Amedeo Modigliani

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|Israel

|Avigdor Stematsky

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|Japan

|Kume Keiichiro – Seiki Kuroda – Henry Sugimoto

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|Lithuania

|Jacques Lipchitz

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|Norway

|Nikolai Astrup – Jean Heiberg – Olaf Gulbransson – Wilhelm Rasmussen – Aage Storstein – Ingebrigt Vik – Gustav Wentzel – Cora Sandel

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|New Zealand

|Sydney Thompson – Helen Stewart – Frances Hodgkins

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|Poland

|Stanisław Jackowski – Alfons Karpiński – Józef Mehoffer – Mela Muter - Włodzimierz Tetmajer – Max Weber – Stanisław Wyspiański- Eugeniusz Zak

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|Romania

|Reuven Rubin

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|Russia

|Gleb W. Derujinsky – Alexander Golovin – Anna Golubkina – Eugene Lanceray – Konstantin Somov – Emil Wiesel- Nicolai Ivanovich Kravchenko – Nikolai Pomansky

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|Spain

|Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa

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|Sweden

|Carl Eldh – Arvid Nyholm – Jenny Nyström – Hanna Pauli - Anna Wengberg

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|Switzerland

|Fritz Glarner – Oswald Pilloud – Louis Soutter – Heini Waser

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|Uruguay

|Juan José Calandria

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|United Kingdom

|Lamorna Birch – John Duncan Fergusson – Edward Halliday{{Cite book|last=Compton|first=Ann|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=no5eCPjZapgC|title=Edward Halliday: Art for Life, 1925-1939|publisher=Liverpool University Press|year=1997|isbn=9780853239727|series=Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies|pages=10, 44}} – Isobel Heath – Richard Jack - Mina Loy – Laura Muntz Lyall – Ottilie Maclaren Wallace – Bessie MacNicol - Cedric Morris – Samuel Peploe – Elizabeth Polunin – Dod Procter – Robert William Service – Stansmore Dean Stevenson - Edith Grace Wheatley - Sydney Curnow Vosper – Amy Krauss

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|United States

|Lucy Bacon – Cecilia Beaux – Charles Bittinger – George Henry Clements – Rinaldo Cuneo – Charles Demuth – Eyre de Lanux – Florence Esté – Clara Fasano - Lyonel Feininger – Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller – Marion Greenwood – Elizabeth Orton Jones – Alice De Wolf Kellogg – Walt Kuhn – Jean Mannheim{{Cite book|last=Hughes|first=Edan Milton|title=Artists in California, 1786-1940|publisher=Hughes Publishing Company|year=1986|isbn=978-0961611200}} – Isamu Noguchi – George Loftus Noyes – Pauline Palmer — Lilla Cabot Perry – Alice Morgan Wright – Stanton Macdonald-Wright – Elenore Plaisted Abbott – Alice Schille – Janet Scudder – Armstrong Sperry – Inga Stephens Pratt Clark – Adrien Voisin – Challis Walker – Nan Watson — Adele Fay Williams — Mahonri Young

Other students

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