The Scandinavian Academy ( French Académie scandinave , Swede. Académie Scandinave Maison Watteau ) - private art school in Paris , which existed between 1919 and 1935. [one]
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History
It was organized by Swedish, Norwegian and Danish artists, including Lena Börjeson , , , and Per Krogh ; the director of the school was Lena Buryeson. [2] , president of the Association of Scandinavian Artists, took part in the opening of the school.
The school was located in the Maison Watteau building in Montparnasse , at the address: 6, rue Jules-Chaplain, Paris (6e) , which since 1922 was rented by the sculptor Lena Buryeson for exhibitions of Scandinavian art. [3] For some time the Scandinavian Academy was under the patronage of the Swedish Prince Eugene and Count , the Swedish envoy in Paris, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden.
Among the graduates of the school was the Swedish artist Signe Bart .
Otte Skold and , returning from Paris to Sweden in 1929, together founded the Otte Skölds målarskola school of painting in Stockholm , later renamed the Pernbys målarskola school of painting. Lena Börjeson also returned to Sweden and organized her own sculpture school ( Lena Börjesons skulpturskola ) in Stockholm.
Notes
- ↑ Maison Watteau i Nationalencykopedin
- ↑ Nordisk Familjebok, Uggle-upplagan, 1926, sp 1136
- ↑ Lena Börjeson