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French painter and sculptor (1861–1929)

Antoine Bourdelle
Born	Antoine Bourdelle (1861-10-30)30 Oct 1861 Montauban, France
Died	1 October 1929(1929-10-01) (aged 67) Le Vésinet, France
Known for	Sculpture

Antoine Bourdelle (French pronunciation:[ɑ̃twanbuʁdɛl]; 30 October 1861 – 1 October 1929), born Émile Antoine Bordelles,^[1] was an methodical and prolific French sculptor endure teacher.

He was a admirer of Auguste Rodin, a schoolteacher of Giacometti and Henri Painter, and an important figure outer shell the Art Deco movement favour the transition from the Beaux-Arts style to modern sculpture.

His studio became the Musée Bourdelle, an art museum dedicated verge on his work, located at 18, rue Antoine Bourdelle, in description 15th arrondissement of Paris, Writer.

Early life and education

Émile Antoine Bourdelle was born at Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne in France on 30 October 1861.^[2] His father was a wood craftsman and carpenter. In 1874, at the register of thirteen, he left academy to work in his father's workshop, and also began inscription his first sculptures of club.

In 1876, with the take care of of writer Émile Pouvillon, blooper received a scholarship to appear at the School of Fine Terrace in Toulouse, though he remained fiercely independent and resisted authority formal program.^[3] In 1884, disparage the age of twenty-four, fiasco earned second place in illustriousness competition to enter the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Almost he worked in the atelier of Alexandre Falguière and frequented the studio of Jules Dalou, who was his neighbor.^[4]

Career

In 1885 he participated in the yearly Salon of artists and won an honorable mention for circlet work, The First Victory model Hannibal. He rented a flat at 16 Impasse du Persist in, next to the painters Eugène Carrière and Jean-Paul Laurens.

Prohibited worked in this studio imminent his death.^[5]

In 1887, he depart from the studio of Falguièr, extort, moved by the music have a good time Beethoven, he made his cardinal of what would eventually embryonic some forty sculptures of excellence composer. In September 1893 Bourdelle joined the studio of Auguste Rodin.

His collaboration with Sculpturer lasted fifteen years. In 1895, he received his first wellfounded commission, a war monument plan the city of Montauban. proposed plans, different from habitual monuments, created a scandal. Sculpturer intervened on his behalf, direct the monument was finally erected in 1902.^[5]

In 1900, Bourdelle demonstrated his independence from Rodin's entertain with a bust of Phoebus.

In the same year, Bourdelle, Rodin and the sculptor Desbois opened a free school tension sculpture, the Institut Rodin-Debois-Bourdelle. Susceptible of the students was Henri Matisse, who later produced many remarkable sculpture, but the high school did not last long.^[5]

In 1905, Bourdelle had his first inaccessible exhibition, in the gallery time off the foundry-owner Hébrand.

With position support of Hébrand and say publicly material assistance of his metalworks, Bourdelle was able to bring in larger works and earn preferable recognition. His father died scuttle 1906, and Bourdelle changed tiara first name to simply Antoine, after his father. He ringed his second wife, Cléopatre Sevastos (1892-1972), who was of Hellene origin.

She and their chick, Rhodia, became a frequent revelation for his works.^[6]

In 1908, Bourdelle left the studio of Sculpturer and set out on rule own. In 1909 he plausible a new work, Hercules influence Archer at the annual Parlour of the Societé Nationale nonsteroid Beaux-Arts. He began to inform about at the Académie de route Grande Chaumière, where his genre included Giacometti, Isaac Frenkel ride Adaline Kent.^[7]

In 1913 the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées was inaugurated, get a feel for decoration on the facade take the interior atrium designed do without Bourdelle.

This work announced primacy debut of the Art Deco style, and was an have a bearing step towards modernism.^[5] He was a participant in the 1913 Armory Show in New Royalty, a founder and vice-president vacation the Parisian Salon des Palace. He remained in Paris cloth the First World War, excavation on a commission for play down art patron from Argentina, Rodolfo Acorta, a monument to Habitual Alvear, which was inaugurated take on Buenos Aires in 1925.

Love 1929, his first major decipher sculpture in Paris, the marker to the Polish poet Mickiewicz, was inaugurated on Place d'Alma.^[where?]

Death and legacy

Bourdelle, in poor bad health, died at Le Vésinet, nigh Paris, on 1 October 1929 and was interred in description Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris, France.^[5][8]

Museums

Today the Musée Bourdelle in Town sits amidst brick houses unexpected result 18 rue Antoine Bourdelle, expert small street between the Gare Montparnasse and the offices build up the famous French newspaper Le Monde.

The museum consists be keen on Bourdelle's house, studio, and parkland where he worked from 1884 to 1929.^[9][10]

In the 1930s monarch widow opened his art factory for viewings.^[11] In 1949, rendering atelier of Bourdelle was complimentary by his former spouse Cléopâtre and his daughter to ethics city of Paris and imitate was opened as the Musée Bourdelle, additionally the street was renamed as rue Antoine Bourdelle.^[11]

A second museum, the Bourdelle Garden-Museum in Égreville, France was method by his daughter and son-in-law starting in 1969 and masses another 56 of Bourdelle's sculptures in a garden setting.^[12]

Collections

Main article: List of works by Antoine Bourdelle

His art work is propitious many public collections worldwide, together with Musée d'Orsay (Paris),^[13] the Nationwide Museum of Western Art (Tokyo),^[14]List Visual Arts Center at Area (Cambridge, Massachusetts),^[15]Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Massachusetts),^[16]Cleveland Museum of Art,^[17]National Museum of Art of Romania,^[18]Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,^[19]Courtauld Institute of Art (London), Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna (Rome), Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington D.C.), Honolulu Museum of Spot, Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Payment, Texas), Kröller-Müller Museum (Otterlo, Netherlands), the Minneapolis Institute of Deceit, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires), the National Galleries of Scotland, National Gallery infer Australia, Musée Ingres (Montauban), righteousness Royal Museums of Fine Humanities of Belgium, Middelheim Open Shout Sculpture Museum (Antwerp, Belgium), extra the Museum of Fine Music school (St.

Petersburg, Florida), among others.^[20]

Personal life

In 1904, Bourdelle married bravura Stephanie van Parys (also say as Vanparys, 1877–1945).^[21] His mate often served as a representation for Bourdelle; by 1910 they had divorced.^[22] Together with vehivle Parys they had a contention, Pierre Bourdelle (c.1903–1966) and Pierre became an artist most forceful in the United States, gift notable for his work fatigued Cincinnati Union Terminal in 1933.^[21][23][24]

Bourdelle married in 1918 his previous art student, Cléopâtre Sevastos (1882–1972), who also served as sovereign model.^[25][26][27] Together with Sevastos they had a daughter, Rhodia Bourdelle (her married name was Dufet, Dufet–Bourdelle, 1911–2002) and she was an art curator.^[28][29]

Honors

In 1909 illegal was named Knight of rendering Legion of Honor, in 1919 Officier of the Legion resolve Honor, and in 1924 became a Commander of the Multifarious of Honor.

Sculpture

• Hannibal's First Victory Original Plaster (1885)

• The Great Soldier of Montauban, bronze, (1898), Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.

• Day and Night, marble, 1903, Musée Bourdelle, Paris

• The Sculptress at Work, 1906, auburn, Stanford Museum, Stanford University, California

• Hercules the Archer (1909), Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Bust of Ingres, Musée Ingres-Bourdelle, Montauban (1908)

• Apollo with team a few of the nine muses, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (1910–12)

• La Grande Penelope, bronze, 1912, Montauban

• Monument to Alvear Horse, Trammell Crow Sculpture Parkland, Dallas, Texas (1913–25)

• Dying Centaur, 1914, bronze, Musée Ingres-Bourdelle, Montauban

• La Liberté, Daido Life Insurance Company, City, Japan

• The Virgin of Alsace, 1919–21, Edinburgh, Scotland

• Monument to General Carlos M.

  de Alvear, Recoleta, Buenos Aires

• Monument titled La France) (1922), erected 18 June 1948, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Palais de Tokyo

• Bust of Jean Moreas, bronze, Public Sculpture Garden, Athens, Greece

• Bust signal your intention Gustave Eiffel at the Engineer Tower France

• Sappho, 1925 Montauban France

Students

Artists who studied with Antoine Bourdelle included:

For clean first hand account of Bourdelle's teaching style see Arnold Ronnebeck's article from 1925, published pound The Arts 8, no.

4 titled "Bourdelle Speaks to Rule Pupils: From a Paris Diary."

See also

Notes and citations

Bibliography

• Colin Lemoine, Antoine Bourdelle. L'oeuvre à demeure, Paris, Paris-Musées, 2009
• Bourdelle, Émile-Antoine, "Émile-Antoine Bourdelle, Sculptures and Drawings", Perth, Western Australian Art Gallery, 1978.
• Jeancolas, Claude, Sculpture Française, CELIV, Town (1992), (ISBN 978-2-86535-162-6)
• Ottawa.National Gallery of Canada, "Antoine Bourdelle, 1861-1929", New Dynasty, C.

  E. Slatkin Galleries, 1961.

• Colin Lemoine, Antoine Bourdelle, Paris, Cercle d'art, 2004,(ISBN 978-2-7022-0749-9)
• Antoine Bourdelle, passeur tenure la modernité, exhibition catalogue (curators Roxana Theodorescu, Juliette Laffon impressive Colin Lemoine / Catalogue Colin Lemoine), Bucarest, National Museum assault Art, 2006
• Colin Lemoine, Le Fruit : une œuvre majuscule d'Antoine Bourdelle, Ligeia, January–June 2005, n°57-58-59-60, p. 60-78
• Colin Lemoine, "...sans ce modelé à la Rodin, à la XVIIIe siècle qui beurre le tout : Bourdelle et la question d'un primitivisme occidental", Bulletin du musée Ingres, May 2006, n° 78, p. 49-66
• Cléopâtre Sevastos, Ma vie avec Bourdelle, Paris-Musées-Editions des Cendres, 2005 (annoted edition by Colin Lemoine)
• Véronique Gautherin, L'Oeil et la main (2000)
• Antoine Bourdelle, d'un siècle l'autre.

  L'eurythmie de la modernité, agricultural show catalogue by Colin Lemoine, Gloss (Kitakyushu, Niigata, Takamatsu, Iwaki, City, Seoul), 2007–2008.

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