Académie de la Grande Chaumière

The '''Académie de la Grande Chaumière''' (''academy of the large thatched cottage'') is an [[art school]] in the [[VIe arrondissement]] of [[Paris]], [[France]]. The school was founded in 1902 by the Swiss [[Martha Stettler]] (1870–1945) (often spelled "Marthe"), who refused to teach the strict academic rules of painting of the [[École des Beaux-Arts]]. It opened the way to the "Art Indépendant" (Independent Art). It was renamed Académie Charpentier in 1957. An attraction of this [[Atelier (art)|atelier]] was the fees, even lower than the [[Académie Julian]] (which had to be paid in advance). All that was provided was a model and warmth in the winter. ==Founders== *[[Antoine Bourdelle|Antoine Emile Bourdelle]] *[[André Ménard]] *[[Lucien Simon]] *[[René Xavier Prinet]] *[[Claudio Castelucho]] *[[Walter Sickert]] was, for a time, a weekly supervisor of Mlle. Stettler's classes. while [[Jacques-Émile Blanche]] was teaching. ==Former students== {{Col-begin}} {{Col-1-of-2}} *[[Boris Anrep]] *[[Ramiro Arrue]] *[[:fr:René Aubert|René Aubert]] (1894–1977) *[[:fr:Alfred Bolle|Alfred Bolle]] (1887–1959) *[[Louise Bourgeois]] *[[Alexander Calder]] *[[Mário Cesariny]] *[[Coghuf]] (orig. Ernst Stocker) (1905–1976) *[[Warrington Colescott]] *[[Marie-Alain Couturier]] *[[Charles Crodel]] *[[:fr:Paul Daviaud|Paul Daviaud]] *[[:fr:Monique David|Monique David]] *[[Tamara de Lempicka]] *[[:nl:Ghislaine de Menten de Horne|Ghislaine de Menten de Horne]] *[[Josefina de Vasconcellos]] *[[Burhan Doğançay]] *[[:fr:Haim Epstein|Haim Epstein]] *[[Paul Fjelde]] *[[Anne Flournoy]] *[[Michael Frary]] *[[Yitzhak Frenkel]] *[[Herbert Gentry]] *[[Alberto Giacometti]] *[[Angela Gregory]] (1903–1990) *[[Otto Gutfreund]] *[[Al Held]] *[[Bror Hjorth]] *[[René Iché]] *[[Ion Irimescu]] *[[Tove Jansson]] *[[Sylvia Shaw Judson]] *[[Louis Kahan]] *[[Dani Karavan]] *[[:fr:Kiraz (dessinateur)|Kiraz]] {{Col-2-of-2}} *[[Isabel Rawsthorne|Isabel Lambert/Rawsthorne]] *[[:fr:Claude Lazar|Claude Lazar]] *[[:fr:Eugène Leroy|Eugène Leroy]] *[[Arthur McKay]] *[[:fr:Jacques Mennessons|Jacques Mennessons]] *[[Richard Miller]] *[[Amedeo Modigliani]] *[[Isamu Noguchi]] *[[:fr:Constantin Papachristopoulos|Constantin Papachristopoulos]] *[[Amelia Peláez]] *[[Serge Poliakoff]] (enrolled in 1929) *[[Paul Rebeyrolle]] (1926–2005) *[[Jean-Paul Riopelle]] *[[Nano Reid]] *[[Seund Ja Rhee]] (1918–2009) *[[Germaine Richier]] *[[:fr:Pierre Rochereau|Pierre Rochereau]] *[[Oscar Rodríguez Naranjo]] (1907–2006) *[[Alexander Sachal]] *[[:fr:Maggie Salcedo|Maggie Salcedo]] *[[Zinaida Serebriakova]] *[[Louis Schanker]] *[[Nat Mayer Shapiro]] *[[Irene Sharaff]] *[[Amrita Sher-Gil]] *[[Avigdor Stematsky]] (1908–89), Israeli painter *[[:fr:André Stempfel|André Stempfel]] *[[Patrick Swift]] *[[Shinkichi Tajiri]] *[[:fr:Michel Thompson|Michel Thompson]] (1921–2007) *[[:fr:Jean Toth (1899-1972)|Jean Toth]] *[[Pierre Toutain-Dorbec]] *[[:fr:Loreto Verrocchia|Loreto Verrocchia]] *[[Laura Wheeler Waring]] (1924) {{col-end}} ==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 9782759600342 ==External Resources== *[http://www.modernfurnitureclassics.com/index.php/main_page/editorial/title/Title%2015 Interview with Isamu Noguchi about his time in Paris.] *[http://www.aboutrestoration.eu/text/gmhl6.pdf ''Biografie van kunstschilder Ghislaine de Menten de Horne (1908–1995)''] {{coord missing|France}}