Book Launch: André Lhote and His International Students
Friday, October 16, 2020, from 6 to 7 p.m.
Online conference with: Dominique Bermann Martin,
Fanny Drugeon, Zeynep Kuban and Simone Wille.
Conversation about the book André Lhote and His International Students, on the occasion of its publication by innsbruck university press, with its two editors, Zeynep Kuban and Simone Wille, and Fanny Drugeon, art historian and specialist in 20th century cosmopolitan Paris and Dominique Bermann-Martin, expert and niece of André Lhote.
Book for sale at Villa Vassilieff for 36,90€ (check or cash).
The book focuses on the legacy of the painter André Lhote (1885-1962) and his art school which was set in the Montparnasse district. Lhote was active in several art academies across Paris in the 1910s and he founded Académie André Lhote in 1925. His academy attracted an unprecedented number of international students. Notably drawing on his archives, the book closely examines the artist, teacher and theorist Lhote and looks at how artists from all over the world have disseminated and reinterpreted his teachings.
André Lhote and His International Students
Amongst the numerous art academies that existed in Paris between the 1920s and the 1950s, both the liberal as well as the more conservative, the academy of André Lhote (1885-1962), run between 1925 and 1962, was much sought after and attracted an unprecedented number of international students. Due to the excellent state of its archive, it is possible today to acknowledge that almost 1600 students studied with André Lhote at 18, rue d’Odessa in Montparnasse over the period of four decades, as well as at the field academies that he set up in Mirmande (1926), Gordes (1938) and in Cadière d’Azur (1948). André Lhote and His International Students is a collection of 13 essays that illuminate the significant way in which André Lhote, through his teaching, his art practice and writing, was responsible for distributing a specific set of formal and theoretical modernist trends. This book thus not only pays tribute to an unjustly neglected artist, theoretician and teacher, but also examines how artists from around the world contributed to and reinterpreted modernist movements that took place in Paris during this period. André Lhote and His International Students is an account of a microcosmic version of the cosmopolitan Paris that was shaped by the flow and circulation of thousands of single artists from around the world.
- The Academy around 1948: standing in the background, Solveig Olson; in front of Lhote, Olle Baertling (moustache and white handkerchief); to his left Günnel Heineman. In the centre (striped tie) Salah Yousry. In the background, right, Sabri Berkel and Eren Eyüboglu, and at the top left, near the stove, Hasan Kavruk. Photo © Archives André Lhote © ADAGP. Photo : Studio Rosie Rey 56 Fg Montmartre
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