ACADEMIE COLAROSSI
The Académie Colarossi was the former Académie Suisse on the Île de la Cité which was founded in 1815 and in 1870 it was purchased by Italian sculptor Filippo Colarossi (1841-1906) who, in 1879 moved the Académie to 10 Rue de la Grande-Chaumière in the 6th arrondissement in Paris. It was a free Academy created in reaction to the School of Fine Arts considered too conservative and saw prestigious teachers such as the painter James Abbott Whistler (1834–1903) and the sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) and among the many students we can cite Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), Camille Rosalie Claudel (1864–1943), Marcel Gromaire (1892-1971), Eileen Gray (1878-1976), Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) and Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920). Its Suffolk artist tutors included Frances Hodgkins and pupils included Samuel John Lamorna Birch, Thomas Cantrell Dugdale, Charles James Mccall, Joseph Ridley Radcliffe Mcculloch and Cedric Morris. It closed its doors in the 1930s.
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