17 Facts About Antoine Bourdelle

Antoine Bourdelle, born Emile Antoine Bordelles, was an influential and prolific French sculptor and teacher.

Antoine Bourdelle's studio became the Musee Bourdelle, an art museum dedicated to his work, located at 18, rue Antoine Bourdelle, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, France.

Emile Antoine Bourdelle was born at Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne in France on 30 October 1861.

Antoine Bourdelle rented a studio at 16 Impasse du Main, next to the painters Eugene Carriere and Jean-Paul Laurens.

In September 1893 Bourdelle joined the studio of Auguste Rodin.

Antoine Bourdelle's proposed plans, different from traditional monuments, created a scandal.

In 1900, Antoine Bourdelle demonstrated his independence from Rodin's style with a bust of Apollo.

In 1905, Antoine Bourdelle had his first personal exhibition, in the gallery of the foundry-owner Hebrand.

Antoine Bourdelle's father died in 1906, and Bourdelle changed his first name to simply Antoine, after his father.

Antoine Bourdelle married his second wife, Cleopatre Sevastos, who was of Greek origin.

In 1908, Antoine Bourdelle left the studio of Rodin and set out on his own.

Antoine Bourdelle began to teach at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, where his students included Giacometti and Adaline Kent.

Antoine Bourdelle was a participant in the 1913 Armory Show in New York, a founder and vice-president of the Parisian Salon des Tuileries.

Antoine Bourdelle remained in Paris during the First World War, working on a commission for an art patron from Argentina, Rodolfo Acorta, a monument to General Alvear, which was inaugurated in Buenos Aires in 1925.

In 1904, Antoine Bourdelle married artist Stephanie van Parys.

Antoine Bourdelle married in 1918 his former art student, Cleopatre Sevastos, who served as his model.

Together with Sevastos they had a daughter, Rhodia Antoine Bourdelle and she was an art curator.