Académie Colarossi

The Académie Colarossi is an art school founded by the Italian sculptor, Filippo Colarossi. First located on the Île de la Cité, it moved in the 1870s to 10 rue de la Grande-Chaumière in the VIe arrondissement of Paris, France. It was established in the 19th century as an alternative to the government sanctioned École des Beaux Arts that had, in the eyes of many promising young artists at the time, become far too conservative.

Along with the Académie Julian, the Colarossi school accepted female students and allowed them to draw from the nude male model. Noted also for its classes in life sculpting, the school attracted many foreign students, including a large number from the United States.

In 1910, the progressive Académie appointed the New Zealand artist Frances Hodgkins (1869-1947) as its first female teacher.

The school closed around 1920. Shortly before this Madame Colarossi burned the school archives, in retaliation for her husband's philandering.

Notable students

*Hermen Anglada-Camarasa
*Lucy Bacon
*Cecilia Beaux
*Emily Carr
*Camille Claudel
*Gustave Claude Etienne Courtois
*Elin Danielson-Gambogi
*Anna Golubkina
*Lyonel Feininger
*Meta Warrick Fuller
*Marion Greenwood
*George Grosz
*Olaf Gulbransson
*Hans Hofmann
*Jeanne Hébuterne
*Prudence Heward
*Eugene Lanceray
*Otokar Lebeda
*Heinrich Wilhelm Lehmbruck
*Jacques Lipchitz
*Mina Loy
*Laura Muntz Lyall
*Stanton Macdonald-Wright
*Richard E. Miller
*Paula Modersohn-Becker
*Amedeo Modigliani
*Alfons Mucha
*Lilla Cabot Perry
*René François-Xavier Prinet
*George Agnew Reid
*Thea Schleussner
*Armstrong Sperry
*Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen
*Aloys Wach
*Clara Westhoff
*Heinz Witte-Lenoir
*Suzor-Coté
*Max Weber
*Józef Mehoffer
*Włodzimierz Tetmajer
*Stanisław Wyspiański
*Georgette LiYing Chen
*Juan José Calandria
*Challis Walker
*Robert Bachmann
*Camilo Egas
*Sidney Curnow Vosper