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Antoine Bourdelle

French sculptor and teacher, student of Rodin, teacher of Giacometti and Matisse, key figure in Art Deco.

Antoine Bourdelle

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Antoine Bourdelle was a French sculptor and teacher born Émile Antoine Bordelles on 30 October 1861 in Montauban, France.[1][2] He died at Le Vésinet near Paris on 1 October 1929 and is buried in the Cimetière du Montparnasse.[3] His work is held in public collections worldwide including the Musée d'Orsay and the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo.[4]

Quick Facts

Born
30 October 1861
Birthplace
Montauban, France
Died
1 October 1929
Place of death
Le Vésinet, France
Field
Sculpture

Facts from the source article.

Life and work

In 1876 he received a scholarship to attend the School of Fine Arts in Toulouse, assisted by writer Émile Pouvillon.[5] In 1905 Bourdelle had his first personal exhibition in the gallery of foundry-owner Hébrand.[6] Born in Montauban, France on 30 October 1861, Émile Antoine Bourdelle was the son of a wood craftsman and cabinet-maker.[2] He labored in Alexandre Falguière's workshop and was a regular visitor to Jules Dalou's studio, who lived nearby.[7]

Bourdelle departed Rodin's workshop in 1908 and began working independently.[8] At the 1909 annual Salon of the Societé Nationale des Beaux-Arts, he presented his piece Hercules the Archer.[8] The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées opened in 1913 featuring Bourdelle's facade and interior atrium decorations, which signaled the arrival of the Art Deco style.[9]

What the cited sources add

A source on the Adam Mickiewicz monument notes that the work was initiated in 1909 and inaugurated on place de l'Alma in 1929, months before Bourdelle's death.[10] The same source states the monument was moved in 1956 to cours Albert-Ier due to traffic problems.[10] A Paris ZigZag article describes the Musée Bourdelle as a place where the artist lived and worked, with his apartment left in its original state since his death in 1929.[11] The article adds that the museum was transformed and enlarged after his death, offering a peaceful haven near Montparnasse.[11]

The museum is located at 16 rue Antoine Bourdelle, 75015, with free access to permanent collections.[11]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Antoine Bourdelle" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Birth certificate of Émile Antoine Bordelles, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Leonore (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Antoine Bourdelle" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor", Encyclopedia Britannica (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Antoine Bourdelle" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Antoine Bourdelle", Musée d'Orsay: Artists - biographical notes (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Antoine Bourdelle" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Tête d'Apollon [Head of Apollo]", Musée d'Orsay; "Collection: Émile-Antoine Bourdelle, The Dying Centaur", The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo; "Tragic Mask of Beethoven", MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2014-04-11; "Emile-Antoine Bourdelle", Harvard Art Museums; "Collection Artist: Emile Antoine Bourdelle", The Cleveland Museum of Art; "The European Art Gallery", The National Museum of Art of Romania; "Emile-Antoine Bourdelle", FAMSF Search the Collections, 2018-09-21; "Emile Antoine Bourdelle Online", Artcyclopedia.com (original en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Antoine Bourdelle" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lemoine, Colin, Bourdelle, Cercle d'Art, (2004), pg. 8 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Antoine Bourdelle" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lemoine (2004), pg. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Antoine Bourdelle" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Ruth Butler, Rodin: The Shape of Genius, Yale University Press, 1993, page 266, (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Antoine Bourdelle" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Adaline Kent", Rehistoricizing The Time Around Abstract Expressionism in the San Francisco Bay Area (1950s–1960s), 2012 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. Wikipedia, "Antoine Bourdelle" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Monument d'Adam Mickiewicz par Antoine Bourdelle (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  10. Monument d'Adam Mickiewicz par Antoine Bourdelle. facts only, no text reused. parismuseescollections.paris.fr
  11. "Musée Bourdelle, le plus bel atelier-jardin de Paris", Paris ZigZag. facts only, no text reused. pariszigzag.fr

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Antoine Bourdelle (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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