Académie de la Grande Chaumière

Académie de la Grande Chaumière
Plaque of the Académie de la Grande Chaumière
Location
Information
School type	Art School
Founded	1904
Director	(1909) Martha Stettler, Alice Dannenberg and Lucien Simon
Website	www.grande-chaumiere.fr

The Académie de la Grande Chaumière is an art school in the Montparnasse district of Paris, France.

History

The school was founded in 1904 by the Catalan painter Claudio Castelucho, in rue de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, near to the Académie Colarossi. From 1909 the Académie was jointly directed by the painters Martha Stettler, Alice Dannenberg and Lucien Simon. It was dedicated to both painting and sculpture. It did not teach the strict academic rules of painting of the École des Beaux-Arts, and led to art that was free from academic constraints. An attraction was the low level of fees, even lower than those of the Académie Julian (which had to be paid in advance). It was said that all that was provided was a model and warmth in the winter.

In 1957, the Académie de la Grande Chaumière was acquired by the Charpentier family, founders of the Charpentier Academy. It still operates under its original name, and provides two free workshops, one for painting and drawing, the other for sketches, as well as evening classes.

Teachers

Artists by country
	Belarus	Ossip Zadkine
	France	Jean Aujame – Jacques-Émile Blanche – Antoine Bourdelle – Yves Brayer – Alice Dannenberg Co-director with Stettler – Charles Despiau – Othon Friesz – André Lhote – Édouard Georges Mac-Avoy – Émile-René Ménard – Jean Metzinger – René-Xavier Prinet – Lucien Simon – Auguste Leroux – Pierre Vaillant – Robert Wlérick – Charles Picart Le Doux
	Poland	Olga Boznańska
	United States	Margaret Ponce Israel
	Spain	Claudio Castelucho
	Switzerland	Eugène Grasset
	United Kingdom	Walter Sickert (for a time a weekly supervisor of Mlle. Stettler's classes)

Former students

Artists by country
	Argentina	Noemí Gerstein – Alicia Penalba - Lino Enea Spilimbergo
	Australia	Lina Bryans – Bessie Davidson – Louis Kahan
	Belgium	Ghislaine de Menten de Horne – Konstantin Stefanovitch- Jacques Beeckmans – Berthe Dubail
	Canada	Madeleine Laliberté – Arthur McKay – Marthe Rakine – Jean-Paul Riopelle – Julien Hébert
	China	Zao Wou-Ki – Pang Xunqin
	Colombia	Luis Caballero – Oscar Rodríguez Naranjo
	Croatia	Miroslav Kraljević
	Cuba	Amelia Peláez
	Czech Republic	Otto Gutfreund – Frantisek Kardaus
	Ethiopia	Alexander Boghossian
	Finland	Tove Jansson – Eero Nelimarkka – Eero Saarinen – Sam Vanni
	France	Yolande Ardissone – René Aubert – Balthus – Guy Bigot – Louise Bourgeois – Jacques Bouyssou – Philippe Cara Costea – Jean Chapin – Jean Cortot – Marie-Alain Couturier – Jacques Daniel – Gabriel Dauchot – Paul Daviaud – Paul Deltombe – René Demeurisse – Amandine Doré – Robert Fontené – Serge Gainsbourg – Pierre Garcia-Fons – Germaine Gardey – Oscar Gauthier – Jean Gorin (1899–1981) – Étienne Hajdu – Jean Helleu (peintre) – Raymonde Heudebert – René Iché – Richard Jeranian – Edmond Kiraz – Georges Lambert – Claude Lazar – Eugène Leroy – Carlo Maiolini – Marinette Mathieu – Jacques Mennessons – Marie-Lucie Nessi-Valtat – Alain Mongrenier – Lucile Passavant – Wilfrid Perraudin – Jean Piaubert – Richard de Prémare – Paul Rebeyrolle – Serge Rezvani – Colette Richarme – Germaine Richier – Maggie Salcedo – Jérôme Savary – Émile Savitry – Yo Savy – Michel Siret-Gille – Jeanne Socquet – André Stempfel – Michel Thompson – Victor Feltrin – René Olivier – Fernand Teyssier – Louis-Édouard Toulet – Pierre Toutain-Dorbec – Roger Weiss
	Germany	Alf Bayrle (1900–1982)- Charles Crodel – de:Elmar Hillebrand – de:Oskar Holweck – Peter Janssen – de:Erich Kraemer – de: Max Mertz – de:Gretchen Wohlwill
	Greece	Athanase Apartis – fr:Angelikí Dágari – fr:Alékos Kondópoulos – Sophia Laskaridou (1882–1965) – fr:Constantin Papachristopoulos – Socrate Sidiropoulos – Chryssa –
	Hungary	Elmyr de Hory – Anton Prinner – Árpád Szenes – fr:Jean Toth (1899-1972)
R	India	Chintamoni Kar – Krishna Reddy – Amrita Sher-Gil
	Ireland	Eileen Gray – Nano Reid – Patrick Swift
	Israel	Yaacov Agam – Yitzhak Frenkel – Dani Karavan – Avigdor Stematsky (1908–89) –
	Italy	it: Arnaldo Mori – fr:Loreto Verrocchia
	Japan	Kumi Sugai –
	Mexico	Federico Cantu(1907–1989)
	Netherlands	fr:Pierre de Grauw – Hubert Minnebo – nl:Ed van Teeseling
	New Zealand	Helen Stewart
	Poland	fr:Haim Epstein – Władysław Hasior – Tamara de Lempicka
	Portugal	Mário Cesariny de Vasconcelos – pt:Maluda – pt:Mily Possoz – Maria Elena Vieira da Silva – Carlos Botelho
	Romania	Margaret Cossaceanu – Ion Irimescu
	Russia	Boris Anrep – Alexandra Exter – Willy Guggenheim – André Lanskoy – Serge Poliakoff – Alexander Sachal – Zinaida Serebriakova
	South Africa	Lippy Lipshitz
	South Korea	Seund Ja Rhee
	Spain	Ramiro Arrue – Joan Miró – es:Joaquín Peinado – es:Manuel Ángeles Ortiz – Benjamín Palencia
	Sweden	Bror Hjorth – Siri Derkert
	Switzerland	Otto Charles Bänninger – Otto Baumberger – fr:Alfred Bolle – Rolf Brem – Hiram Brülhart – Serge Brignoni – fr:Raymond Buchs – Coghuf – de:Louis Conne – de:Otto Ernst Fritsch – Franz Fedier – Alberto Giacometti – Max Gubler – Willy Guggenheim dit Varlin – André Lasserre – Meret Oppenheim – Oswald Pilloud – Charles Rollier – Kurt Seligmann – de:Paul Stöckli – Victor Surbek – André Thomkins – fr:Robert Wehrlin – de:Otto Wyler – Jean Planque
	Turkey	Burhan Doğançay – Mübin Orhon
	United Kingdom	Maxwell Armfield – John Craxton – Keith Henderson- Jacques Kupfermann -Lewis Morley – Isabel Nicholas – Basil Rakoczi – Isabel Rawsthorne – John Walker – Josefina de Vasconcellos
	United States	Ward Bennett – Helaine Blumenfeld – Alexander Calder – Granville Carter – Edward Clark (artist)- Warrington Colescott – William F. Draper – Joseph Erhardy – Birgitta Moran Farmer – Paul Fjelde – Anne Flournoy – Michael Frary – Roy Charles Gamble (1887–1972) – Herbert Gentry – Paul Georges (1923–2002) – Charles Ginnever – Angela Gregory – Al Held -Raymond Hendler (1923–1998) – Hans Hofmann – Jack Hooper – Sylvia Shaw Judson – Albert Kotin – Margaret Lefranc (1907–1998) – Michael Loew – Jeanne Patterson Miles – Richard E. Miller – Isamu Noguchi – fr:Bill Parker – fr:Geneviève Pezet – Jacques Rosas - Louis Schanker – Nat Mayer Shapiro – Irene Sharaff – Cesare Stea – George L. Stout – Shinkichi Tajiri – Bradley Walker Tomlin – Laura Wheeler Waring
	Uruguay	José Cúneo

Sources

• Dr. Eric Cabris, Ph.D., Biografie van kunstschilder Ghislaine de Menten de Horne (1908–1995), Brussels, V.U.B., 2008, p. 4, footnote 3.
• Antoine Bourdelle, Laure Dalon, Cours & leçons à l'Académie de la Grande Chaumière, 1909–1929, Paris : Paris-Musées : Ed. des Cendres, 2008. ISBN 978-2-7596-0034-2

External links

• Official site
• (fr)André del Debbio – La Grande Chaumière