Antoine Bourdelle

Antoine Bourdelle (Montauban, October 30th 1861 - Vésinet, October 1st 1929) sculptor French.

Born Emile Antoine Bordelles with Montauban in Tarn-et-Garonne (transcription error with the civil statue during its birth: the orthography and thus the pronunciation of the name of its ancestors are Bourdelles ). It leaves the school at the 13 years age to work, in order to help it, in the workshop of cabinet work of his father. Directing itself towards the sculpture, it takes down a grant to the Academy of the fine arts of Toulouse in 1876. It follows then little from time the courses of the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the fine arts of Paris where it has as a Master Falguière. In 1888, it carries out its first sculptures of Beethoven. He chooses the purity and the rigor of the forms. He becomes one of the precursors of the monumental sculpture of the 20th century which will cause admiration in particular Auguste Rodin. Bourdelle accommodates many pupils who will be, for certain, such Giacometti and Richier, of the major artists of their generation. Its influence in the field of the sculpture was reinforced with it and Bourdelle will be regarded soon as the incarnation of an esthetic, alternative caesura fundamental with the policy of tabula shaved avant-gardes. Celebrated all over the world, it is plébisicté by its contemporaries, such Anatole France, André Suarès and André Gide, like by the most prestigious international institutions muséales, of Rome to Stockholm while passing by Bucharest or Brussels.

Let us quote like pupils of Bourdelle:

As of the years 1910 and until the end of its life, Bourdelle is in charge of the realization of orders of scale, with the image of the decoration of the Théâtre of the Fields-Élysées for which he also improvises architect, at the sides of Auguste Perret. He is the creator and the vice-president of the Living room of Tileries, and in 1924 is decorated commander about the Légion with honor.

Antoine Bourdelle dies in the Vésinet, close to Paris, on October 1st 1929 and is buried with the Cimetière of Montparnasse to Paris.

Places of memory

  • has Paris, the Musée Bourdelle is located at the 16 Rue Antoine Bourdelle in the old workshops which it occupied of 1884 with 1929. To Montauban, the city exposes part of works of the artist to the Musée Ingres. Its works populate places, parks and gardens of number of city of the whole world.

  • has Égreville, in Seine-et-Marne, a museum of outdoor, the Museum Bourdelle Garden dedicated to Antoine Bourdelle presents a remarkable whole of 56 sculptures. This counterpart, in the open air, of the museum installed in its old Parisian workshop, is a small jewel in which original bronzes are integrated completely into the floors drawn in the spirit of the embroideries of the gardens to the Frenchwoman.

  • has Montauban, the college Lycée Antoine Bourdelle revêt his name in its honor.

Critical bibliography

  • Lemoine Hake, Bourdelle , Paris, Editions Ring art, 2004
  • Antoine Bourdelle, frontier runner of modernity , catalog expsotion of Bucharest (police station Roxana Theodorescu, Juliette Laffon and Colin Lemoine/Catalog Lemoine Hake), Bucharest, Musée Nationald' Art of Romania, 2006
  • Colin Lemoine, the Fruit: a capital work of Antoine Bourdelle , Ligeia, January-June 2005, n°57-58-59-60, p. 60-78
  • Lemoine Hake, " … without this modelled in Rodin, at the 18th century which butters the tout" : Bourdelle and the question of a Western primitivism , Bulletin of the Ingres museum, May 2006, n° 78, p. 49-66
  • Cléopâtre Sevastos, My life with Bourdelle , Paris-Museums and Editions of Ashes, 2005 (edition annotated by Lemoine Hake)
  • Veronique Gautherin, the Eye and the hand (2000)

External bonds

  • Antoine Bourdelle in Artcyclopedia

  • the war memorial of Capoulet and Junac in Ariège

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