The Académie de la Grande Chaumiere – academy of the large thatched cottage -  is an art school located at 14 rue de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris, near Hotel des Academies et des Arts. It offers full courses, but also a unique “one-sketch admission” service, for which one pays to draw nude models.

At the turn of the 20th century, it was one of the most famous art schools in Paris.
Former students who have probably stayed at Hotel des Academies et des Arts Paris : Tamara de Lempicka, Alberto Giacometti, Richard Miller, Amedeo Modigliani, Isamu Noguchi, Nat Mayer Shapiro.

In the legendary neighborhood of Montparnasse, the most celebrated painters and the most secretive amateurs came to the Grande Chaumiere and the Hotel des Academies et des Arts to sit in the huge and somewhat mysterious rooms in the Academy free to practice their timeless art: life drawing, the nude, sketch …

How was Montparnasse at the beginning of the 20th century? The heart of art with the Hotel des Academies et des Arts Paris. The Academie de la France Chaumiere is the only institution which at the beginning of the last century opened the way towards independant art leaving all forms of technics to be expressed freely.

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