Ã‰cole nationale supÃ©rieure des Beaux-Arts

The Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux -arts de Paris (short ENSBA Paris; German State Academy of Fine Arts in Paris, until 1968 École des Beaux -Arts ) is organized under the auspices of the French Ministry of Culture, the Grandes écoles supplied rechnetes state établissement public in Paris. This most traditional and most famous of the French universities of Fine Arts is located in the central district of Saint- Germain -des- Prés.

It was founded on 20 April 1797, the École Spéciale de peinture, sculpture et de d'architecture, officially confirmed in 1819 as École royale et Spéciale des beaux -arts by royal decree and - after several name changes - in 1968 under its present Title elevated to the rank of an art high school, but traces its origin to the actual oldest of its predecessor institutions back: founded by the 1648 Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture opened École Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture ( see there).

The ENSBA Paris offers a total of about 530 students in addition to the teaching of subject-specific knowledge with a broad range of artistically oriented practical and theoretical subjects to. From the 1968 separate from the Department of Architecture ENSBA today responsible for this area Écoles emerged national supérieures d'architecture.

Location

The facilities, which extend over an area of about two acres, occupy the site of the former Augustinian monastery Couvent des Saints -Augustins, whose chapel was preserved. They are accessible via the main entrance in the Rue Bonaparte. The advantageous location in the city center on the Rive Gauche of the Seine at the northern edge of the district of Saint- Germain -des- Prés it, in a few minutes the resident in the immediate vicinity of the Louvre, which rises across the river on foot allows.

History of the building

The Ecole nationale supérieure de beaux -arts de Paris consists of a number of buildings, most of which were built from the 17th to the 19th century, some others in the 20th century.

Chapel of the Petits -Augustins

The oldest building is the chapel of the Petits -Augustins, which dates from the 17th century. Here was created by Queen Margot and Catherine de Médici later one of the first art collections in Paris. During the French Revolution art treasures were stored in the chapel, to protect them from damage, such as the tombs of the French kings from the Saint- Denis. Opened in 1795, Alexandre Lenoir there with the Musée des Monuments français, the first public museum in France. It contained some of the country's most important sculptures. After the closure of the museum in 1816, this city of art school has been assigned. Numerous parts of the collection, however, are still to be seen there, such as a number of copies of the most famous sculptures.

Interior

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Bâtiment des Loges, Palais des Etudes and Hôtel de Chimay

Other buildings of the Academy are the Bâtiment des Loges, the venue for the entrance examinations, the Palais des Etudes that. Based on Florentine palaces of Felix Duban entworfende main building and the Hôtel de Chimay, a later inserted into the campus adjacent city palace

The " amphitheater "

Rise to the archives at the Palais des Études

The archive at the Palais des Études

Entrance to the Library at the Palais des Études

Cour du Mûrier

Originally, the Ecole nationale supérieure was des Beaux-Arts a monastery: the Couvent des Petits -Augustins. In the old enclosure of the archaeologist Alexandre Lenoir had planted a Chinese mulberry, which gave its name to this courtyard. 1836 transformed the French architect Félix Duban the enclosure in an antique, bordered by arcades at Atrium. During the Second Empire Duban had the walls painted and made copies of ancient sculptures.

Cour du Mûrier

Cour du Mûrier, detail

Organization of the University

The Ecole nationale supérieure de beaux -arts de Paris is divided into studios, where working 10 to 20 students from different semesters. Most other French art schools are more like a school with different subjects and timetables. At the end of each year, the price of the Friends of Fine Arts is awarded (Le Prix des Amis des Beaux -Arts ). The Friends of the Arts High School are an association of gallery owners and art collectors.

After three years, after successfully passing the examination, the diplôme national d' art plastique, short DNAP ( roughly: National Diploma of Fine Art) handed out. The latter corresponds to a Bachelor of Arts.

In the fourth year is either an internship ( in an art gallery, a museum, with an established artist, etc ) or to complete a semester abroad. The ENSBA maintains partnerships to art schools and academies from around the world, such as the famous Hunter College and Cooper Union in New York, CalArts in Los Angeles, the Musashino Art University in Tokyo, or the Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana.

At the end of the fifth year the big diploma examinations will take place to obtain the diplôme national supérieur d'art plastique, short DNSAP (Eng. about state higher education diploma of Fine Arts ), which corresponds to a Master of Arts degree.

Library

The library at the Palais des études is a documentation center for contemporary art. It was founded in 1989 and since then constantly increased its holdings of books, exhibition catalogs, artist monographs, French and foreign art magazines, audiovisual documents, documentation of the work of the students. The entrance is usually the students and professors and alumni of the School of Art reserved. Art historians, critics, and artists can get access to the library under certain conditions.

The media library

Professors (May 2010)

Theory: Pierre Bergounioux
Alain Bonfand
Jean -François Chevrier
Maurice Godelier
François -René Martin
Didier Semin

Jean -Michel Alberola
François Boisrond
Jean -Marc Bustamante
Claude Closky
Richard Deacon
Patrick Faigenbaum
Marc Pataut
Giuseppe Penone
Patrick Tosani
Jean -Luc Vilmouth

Graduates ( selection)

Paul Abadie (1812-1884)
Jean Bazaine (1904-2001)
Jean Béraud (1849-1935)
Emile Bernard (1868-1941)
William Adolphe Bouguereau
Yves Brayer (1907-1990)
Bernard Buffet (1928-1999)
Paul de Castro (1882-1939)
Yves Chaudouët (* 1959)
Geneviève Claisse (* 1935)
Cluysenaar Alfred (1837-1902)
Albert Dagnaux (1861-1933)
Édouard Joseph Dantan (1848-1897)
Gabriel Davioud (1823-1881)
Olivier Debré (1920-1999)
Jean -Baptiste Debret (1768-1848)
Eugène Delacroix (1816-1863)
Jacques Charles Delahaye ( born 1928 )
Charles Dufresne (1876-1938)
Raoul Dufy (1877-1953)
Hans Eggimann (1872-1929)
Robert Estermann (b. 1970)
Émile - Othon Friesz (1879-1949)
Gilioli Émile (1911-1977)
Georges Gimel (1898-1962)
Hubert de Givenchy (1927 )
Emmanuel Hannaux (1855-1934)
Emil Hünten (1827-1902)
Jean -Auguste -Dominique Ingres (1799-1867)
Eugène de Kermadec - Nestor (1899-1976)

Klinckenberg Eugène (1858-1942)
Charles de La Fosse (1636-1716)
Achille Laugé (1861-1944)
Detlef Lienau (1818-1887)
Morice Lipsi (1898-1986)
Maurice Loutreuil (1885-1925)
Aristide Maillol (1861-1944)
Théodore Marx ( b. 1932 )
Emmanuel Louis Masqueray (1861-1917)
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Jean Messagier (1920-1999)
Mario Pani Darqui (1911-1993)
Christian de Portzamparc ( b. 1944 )
Léon Printemps (1871-1945)
Kurt Regschek (1923-2005)
Rodo (1887 )
Georges Rohner (1913-2000)
Mathilde Rosier (* 1973)
Ker -Xavier Roussel (1867-1944)
Pierre Roy (1880-1950)
Reuven Rubin (1893-1974)
Hubert Schumacher (1896-1961)
André Dunoyer Segonzac (1884-1974)
Amrita Sher -Gil (1913-1941)
Hugo Siegwart (1865-1938)
James Tissot (1836-1902)
Clovis Trouille (1889-1975)
Charles Yriarte (1831-1898)
Takis Zenetos (1926-1977)

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