Emile antoine bourdelle biography of michael

Born in Montauban, Bourdelle entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse in 1876 and moved to Paris in 1884, where he joined Alexandre Falguière's studio.

But the young artist soon left this academic studio and decided to work in his own studio in Impasse du Maine (Paris).

In 1893, Rodin welcomed him as a practitioner.

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Around he wrote to the sculptor Emile-Antoine Bourdelle that “Michelangelo called me to Italy and there I received precious insights which I took into.

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‎Antoine Bourdelle‎.

Bourdelle was influenced by the great expressivity and strength of the figures transcribed by the power of the modelling. These characteristics were reflected in his first public commission, in 1895, a war memorial for his hometown of Montauban.

1900 marked a turning point in his career, with the presentation of the Tête d'Apollon (Apollo's Head), a manifesto of his work and resulting from subsequent research at the Montauban monument.

His first solo exhibition was held at Hébrard in 1905, which gives him greater visibility and enabling him to devote himself fully to his art.

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