Académie Colarossi

Academie Colarossi life drawing class, 1908

The Académie Colarossi (1870–1930) was an art school in Paris founded in 1870 by the Italian model and sculptor Filippo Colarossi.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite book</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":1">Template:Cite book</ref>

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Around 1879, two salon painters taught the Académie classes, the Japanese-influenced painter Raphaël Collin and French academic-style painter Gustave Courtois.<ref name=":0" /> Among its other instructors were the influential French sculptor, Jean Antoine Injalbert and painter Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret.<ref name=":0" /> 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; Transatlantic painter-poet Mina Loy, 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.<ref name=":1" />

Template:Flagicon	Austria	Zofia Albinowska-Minkiewiczowa – Aloys Wach
Template:Flagicon	Australia	Alice Muskett<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Flagicon	Bulgaria	Pascin
Template:Flagicon	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
Template:Flagicon	China	Georgette Chen
Template:Flagicon	Czech Republic	František Bílek – Josef Čapek – Alfons Mucha
Template:Flagicon	Denmark	Cecilie Dahl
Template:Flagicon	Ecuador	Camilo Egas
Template:Flagicon	Estonia	Adamson-Eric – Konrad Mägi – Karl Pärsimägi – Nikolai Triik – Eduard Wiiralt
Template:Flagicon	Finland	Helene Schjerfbeck – Ellen Thesleff
Template:Flagicon	France	Hélène de Beauvoir – Camille Claudel – Paul Gauguin – Marcel Gromaire – Jeanne Hébuterne – Jean Lurçat – Émile Schuffenecker – Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen – Fabien Fabiano
Template:Flagicon	Germany	Karl Albert Buehr – George Grosz – Hans Hofmann – Wilhelm Lehmbruck – Paula Modersohn-Becker
Template:Flagicon	Greece	Sophia Laskaridou
Template:Flagicon	Hungary	Emile Lahner – Camilla Koffler (Ylla)
Template:Flagicon	Ireland	Eileen Gray
Template:Flagicon	Italy	Romaine Brooks – Amedeo Modigliani
Template:Flagicon	Israel	Avigdor Stematsky
Template:Flagicon	Japan	Kume Keiichiro – Seiki Kuroda – Henry Sugimoto
Template:Flagicon	Lithuania	Jacques Lipchitz
Template:Flagicon	Norway	Nikolai Astrup – Jean Heiberg – Olaf Gulbransson – Wilhelm Rasmussen – Aage Storstein – Ingebrigt Vik – Gustav Wentzel – Cora Sandel
Template:Flagicon	New Zealand	Sydney Thompson – Helen Stewart – Frances Hodgkins
Template:Flagicon	Poland	Stanisław Jackowski – Alfons Karpiński – Józef Mehoffer – Mela Muter - Włodzimierz Tetmajer – Max Weber – Stanisław Wyspiański- Eugeniusz Zak
Template:Flagicon	Romania	Reuven Rubin
Template:Flagicon	Russia	Gleb W. Derujinsky – Alexander Golovin – Anna Golubkina – Eugene Lanceray – Konstantin Somov – Emil Wiesel- Nicolai Ivanovich Kravchenko – Nikolai Pomansky
Template:Flagicon	Spain	Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa
Template:Flagicon	Sweden	Carl Eldh – Arvid Nyholm – Jenny Nyström – Hanna Pauli<ref name=":0" /> - Anna Wengberg
Template:Flagicon	Switzerland	Fritz Glarner – Oswald Pilloud – Louis Soutter – Heini Waser
Template:Flagicon	Uruguay	Juan José Calandria
Template:Flagicon	United Kingdom	Lamorna Birch – John Duncan Fergusson – Edward Halliday<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> – 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
Template:Flagicon	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<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> – 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

• Ethel Blanchard Collver
• Rose Connor
• Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois
• Camilo Egas
• Hester Frood<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• Paul Haefliger
• Cornelia Ellis Hildebrandt
• Louis Kahan
• Richard E. Miller
• Georgina Moutray Kyle
• Josephine Muntz Adams
• Maurice Prendergast<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Lucy May Stanton
• Mary K. Trotter
• Mary Jett Franklin
• Clara Westhoff
• George Grosz
• Clara Miller Burd
• Nora Houston<ref>https://norahouston.org/about/ About Nora Houston - Nora Houston Foundation</ref>

See also

• Category:Académie Colarossi alumni