Académie Suisse

The Académie Suisse was named one of the former model Charles Suisse, in 1815 " Père Suisse " founded in Paris in public institution, the young artists who could not pay any own model, gave the opportunity in by a small contribution to the costs to devote a community studio the nude studies.

It was not a conventional painting academy, but an independent studio, which at the Pont Saint -Michel in a dilapidated house of the Quai des Orfèvres (1st Arrondissement ) had been set up in which pursued inter alia, a city known tooth thriller its activities. It was granted or art classes, nor were tests taken or evaluated the resulting works there. But the cost-effective use of the studio and the model employed there, but above all the possibility of exchange with like-minded, attracted many later artists to fame Come to the Académie Suisse.

In the Académie Suisse, among others, Cézanne, Pissarro, Monet and Guillaumin met. These encounters have been influential in the establishment of the Impressionist movement.

Artist of the Académie Suisse

  • Paul Huet (1803-1869), French landscape painter
  • Philippe -Auguste Jeanron (1808-1861), French painter, who later became director of the state museums of France
  • Honoré Daumier (1808-1879), French painter, sculptor, graphic artist and caricaturist
  • Antoine -Augustin Préault (1809-1879), known as Auguste Préault, French sculptor
  • François -Louis Français (1814-1897), French landscape painter, draftsman and printmaker
  • Gustave Courbet (1827-1885), French painter of realism
  • Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), French Impressionist
  • Édouard Manet (1832-1883), French painter
  • Emile Auguste Carolus -Duran (1837-1917), French painter, who later became director of the Académie de France à Rome
  • Robert Wylie (1839-1877), American painter
  • Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), French Post-Impressionist Van
  • Philippe Solari (1840-1906), French sculptor
  • Claude Monet (1840-1926), French Impressionist
  • Antoine Guillemet (1841-1918), French landscape painter
  • Armand Guillaumin (1841-1927), French Impressionist
  • Jacek Malczewski (1854-1929), Polish Symbolist
  • Maximilien Luce (1858-1941), French painter of the late Impressionism
  • Ernest Biéler (1863-1948), the Swiss painter
  • Sella Hasse (1878-1963), German painter
Model (art) Pont Saint-Michel 1st arrondissement of Paris
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