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(Redirected from Academie Moderne) Former fine arts school in Paris, France

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Académie Moderne
TypePrivate art school
Established1924 (1924)
FounderFernand Léger, Amédée Ozenfant
Address86, 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. The school attracted students from Europe and America. Both Léger and Ozenfant taught there, along with Aleksandra Ekster and Marie Laurencin.

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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