Académie Moderne

48.841472°N 2.332417°E / 48.841472; 2.332417

Académie Moderne
TypePrivate art school
Established1924 (1924)
FounderFernand Léger, Amédée Ozenfant
Address
86, rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs
,
Paris
,
France
Académie Moderne c. 1924

The Académie Moderne was a free art school in Paris. It was founded by Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant in 1924.[1] The school attracted students from Europe and America.[2][3] Both Léger and Ozenfant taught there, along with Aleksandra Ekster and Marie Laurencin.[4]

References
  1. "Fernand Léger — the life and art of a Modernist master". Christie's. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  2. Musée d'Art Américain (Giverny) (2003). A Transatlantic Avant-garde: American Artists in Paris, 1918-1939. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24207-4.
  3. A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950. Brill. 2019. pp. 7–8. ISBN 978-90-04-38829-1.
  4. "Amédée Ozenfant". Guggenheim. Retrieved 2 January 2020.


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