The École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon is a school of art and design in

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

, located in Les Subsistances, in the

1st arrondissement of Lyon The 1st arrondissement of Lyon () is one of the nine arrondissements of the City of Lyon. It is located below the hill of Croix-Rousse and on the north part of the Presqu'île formed by the Saône and the Rhône, the two rivers in Lyon. Thi ...

, in the

Rhône-Alpes Rhône-Alpes () was an administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it is part of the new region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. It is located on the eastern border of the country, towards the south. The region was named after the river Rhône a ...

region of France. It is part of the

École des Beaux-Arts ; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centu ...

tradition, that established the

Beaux-Arts architecture Beaux-Arts architecture ( , ) was the academic architectural style taught at the in Paris, particularly from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century. It drew upon the principles of French neoclassicism, but also incorporated Renaissance and ...

style.

History

It was founded in 1756 by abbé Lacroix-Laval and a group of art lovers. The school of drawing was free of charge and, owing to its royal charter for academies in the provinces, in 1780 it became the École Royale académique de dessin et géométrie and became one of the earliest French art schools outside

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

Directors

*1960–1974: Jean Coquet *1974–1992: Philippe Nahoum *1992–1998: Guy Issanjou *1998–2011: Yves Robert *2011–present ... : Emmanuel Tibloux

Notable teachers

* * from 1900 professor of Life drawing * from 1939 * * Patrick Beurard-Valdoye * * * * * Veit Stratmann * * Olivier Zabat

Notable alumni

Adrien Bas Adrien Bas (16 April 1884, in Lyon – 2 May 1925, in Lyon) was a French painter and pastellist. He was primarily known for landscapes, but also painted flowers, still-lifes, interiors and some portraits. Biography His father was a weaver. He b ...

, c. 1902 * * , 1836 to 1841 * , from 1891 * Jean-Marie Bonnassieux, 1828 to 1833 * Claude Bonnefond *

Jean-Baptiste Bouchardon Jean-Baptiste Bouchardon (16 May 1667 – 15 January 1742) was a 17th/18th-century French sculptor and architect. Biography Born in Saint-Didier-en-Velay, Bouchardon was the son of the merchant Anthoine Bouchardon and his wife Gabrielle Trinqu ...

, architect, sculptor * Louis Bouquet, 1903 to 1907 * Camille Bouvagne, c. 1883 to 1887 * Fleury Chenu * , c. 1902 * Léon Couturier * Lionel Estève, c. 1980 * Louis Deschamps (painter) * Germain Détanger, from 1860 * Antoine Duclaux * , 1784 *

Hippolyte Flandrin Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (23 March 1809 – 21 March 1864) was a French Neoclassical painter. His most celebrated work, ''Study (Young Male Nude Seated Beside the Sea), Jeune Homme Nu Assis au Bord de la Mer'' (1836) is held in the Louvre. Biog ...

, from 1828 * Michel Philibert Genod * Laurent Godin, c. 1980 * François Guiguet * Léonie Humbert-Vignot, c. 1894 *

Jean-Marie Jacomin Jean-Marie Jacomin (1789, Lyon - 6 May 1858, Lyon) was a French painter. Life The son of Jean Antoine Jacomin and Marie Hélène Ravier, he studied at the drawing school in Lyon before being taught by Pierre Révoil in the École des Beaux-arts de ...

, painter * , 1890 to 1896 * Jean-François Legendre-Héral, sculptor *

Alphonse Legros Alphonse Legros (; 8 May 1837 – 8 December 1911) was a French, later British, painter, etcher, sculptor, and medallist. He moved to London in 1863 and later was naturalized as British. He was important as a teacher in the British etching ...

, c. 1855 * * , c. 1833 * Jean Seignemartin, 1860 to 1865 * Nicolas Sicard * Tony Tollet, 1873 to 1879 * Anthelme Trimolet * Jean-Baptiste Vietty, c. 1807 * , 1939 to 1940*

References

External links

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Portal of Écoles d'Art en Région Rhône-Alpes
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