Bourdelle Museum

There is an amazing museum to be found in the 15^th arrondissement, Musée Bourdelle. Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929) was an artist, especially known as a sculptor. He learnt sculpting from masters like Falguière and Dalou, joined Rodin and became his friend. He later worked as a teacher himself and had some famous pupils like Giacometti, Maillol, Matisse and - for my Swedish friends - Bror Hjort.

Bourdelle had his home and workshop here for the 45 last years of his life, however occupying much less space than the present museum, which was first opened in 1949 and has since been considerably expanded, possibly now occupying ten times more space than Bourdelle’s original home and studio. The museum is one of the City of Paris’ Museums, meaning that you don’t have to pay an entrance fee (but small “donations” are appreciated.) There are more than 500 works to be seen, inside and outside…

Here we can see what Antoine Bourdelle looked like. I also added here some photos from posts where I have showed some of his works visible in Paris on which I have posted - the monument in honour of Mickiewicz (here), “La France” in front of the Palais de Tokyo (here), the decoration of Auguste Perret’s Théâtre des Champs Elysées (here)…

The museum can be found in a little street, which now bears his name, close to the Montparnasse Tower.