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Art of the 20th Century
Emile-Antoine
Bourdelle
Emile-Antoine Bourdelle
(b Montauban, 30 Oct 1861; d Le Vésinet, nr Paris, 1 Oct 1929).
French sculptor, painter and draughtsman. After working with his father, a cabinetmaker, in 1876 he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Toulouse. In 1884 he was admitted as a pupil of Alexandre Falguière to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, but in rebellion against academic training left two years later. He then moved into a house (now the Musée Bourdelle) in the Impasse du Maine; Jules Dalou, for whom he had the greatest admiration, lived near by.
