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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. 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. 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.

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.

Around 1879, two salon painters taught the Académie classes, the Japanese-influenced painter Raphaël Collin and French academic-style painter Gustave Courtois.

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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

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|Georgette Chen

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|Czech Republic

|František Bílek – Josef Čapek – Alfons Mucha

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|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

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|Hungary

|Emile Lahner – Camilla Koffler (Ylla)

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|Ireland

|Eileen Gray - Sean O'Sullivan

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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 – 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 – 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

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Other students

  • Ethel Blanchard Collver
  • Rose Connor
  • Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois
  • Camilo Egas
  • Hester Frood
  • Paul Haefliger
  • Cornelia Ellis Hildebrandt
  • Louis Kahan
  • Richard E. Miller
  • Georgina Moutray Kyle
  • Josephine Muntz Adams
  • Maurice Prendergast
  • Lucy May Stanton
  • Mary K. Trotter
  • Mary Jett Franklin
  • Clara Westhoff
  • George Grosz
  • Clara Miller Burd
  • Nora Houston

See also

  • :Category:Académie Colarossi alumni

References