ACADEMIE COLAROSSI

1870 - 1935

The Académie Colarossi was the former Académie Suisse on the Île de la Cité in central Paris which was founded in 1815 and in 1870 it was purchased by Italian sculptor Filippo Colarossi (21 April 1841-25 August 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 (11 July 1834–17 July 1903) and the sculptor Auguste Rodin (12 November 1840-17 November 1917) and among the many students were Camille Rosalie Claudel (8 December 1864–19 October 1943); Lyonel Charles Adrian Feininger (17 July 1871–13 January 1956); Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848–8 May 1903); Marcel Gromaire (24 July 1892-11 April 1971); Eileen Gray (9 August 1878-31 October 1976); Alberto Giacometti (10 October 1901–11 January 1966); George Grosz (26 July 1893–6 July 1959); Jacques Lipchitz (22 August 1891–26 May 1973) 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 and Cedric Morris. It closed its doors in the 1935.

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Works by This Artist