The Institut de France; seat of the Académie des Beaux-Arts

The Académie des Beaux-Arts (French pronunciation: [akademi de boz‿aʁ]; lit. 'Academy of Fine Arts') is a French learned society based in Paris. It is one of the five academies of the Institut de France. The current president of the academy (2021) is Alain-Charles Perrot, a French architect.

Background

The academy was created in 1816 in Paris as a merger of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture (Academy of Painting and Sculpture, founded 1648), the Académie de musique (Academy of Music, founded in 1669) and the Académie d'architecture (Academy of Architecture, founded in 1671).

Awards

Currently, the Académie des Beaux-Arts provides several awards including five dedicated prizes:[1]

Previously the Académie granted the Prix Rossini for excellence in libretto or music composition.

Presidents

Members

Constituted around the notion of multidisciplinarity, the Académie des Beaux-Arts brings together sixty-three members within nine artistic sections, sixteen foreign associate members and sixty-three corresponding members.

The members are grouped into nine sections:

Current members:

SectionSeatMemberDate
I : Painting
  • The number of seats in this section was reduced from 14 to 12 on 23 August 1967.
  • As a consequence, the #3 and #14 seats were eliminated.
  • Their number was further decreased from 12 to 11 on 16 June 1987.
  • The #12 seat was transferred to section VII.
  • The #1 seat was transferred to section VII in 1998, and their number was decreased from 11 to 10.

For a list of previous members, see:
"List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Painting".

2Pierre Carron1990
4Vacant2018
5Philippe Garel2015
6Gérard Garouste2017
7Vacant2019
8Vacant2021
9Fabrice Hyber2018
10Jean-Marc Bustamante2016
11Catherine Meurisse2020
13Yves Millecamps2001
II : Sculpture
  • Seat #4 was transferred to section VII in 1988.

For a list of previous members, see:
"List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Sculpture"

1Vacant2020
2Claude Abeille1992
3Jean Anguera2013
5Jean-Michel Othoniel2018
6Anne Poirier2021
7Pierre-Édouard2008
8Antoine Poncet1993
9Brigitte Terziev2007
III : Architecture
  • Seat #8 was transferred to section VII in 1985.

For a list of previous members, see:
"List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Architecture"

 1Jacques Rougerie2008
2Jean-Michel Wilmotte2015
3Aymeric Zublena2008
4Anne Démians2021
5Marc Barani2018
6Dominique Perrault2015
7Alain Charles Perrot2013
9Pierre-Antoine Gatier2019
10Bernard Desmoulin2018
IV : Engraving

For a list of previous members, see:
"List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Engraving"

 1Érik Desmazières2008
2Vacant2020
3Astrid de La Forest2016
4Pierre Collin2018
V : Musical composition

For a list of previous members, see:
"List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Music"

 1Laurent Petitgirard2000
2Bruno Mantovani2017
3Michaël Levinas2009
4Gilbert Amy2013
5François-Bernard Mâche2002
6Édith Canat de Chizy2005
7Régis Campo2017
8Thierry Escaich2013
VI : Unattached members
  • Seat #9 was transferred to section VII in 1985.
  • Seats #2 and #12 were eliminated.

For a list of previous members, see:
"List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Unattached"

1William Christie2008
3Hugues Gall2002
4Muriel Mayette-Holtz2017
5Michel David-Weill1982
6Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière2005
7Adrien Goetz2017
8Vacant2021
10Henri Loyrette1997
11Patrick de Carolis2010
13François-Bernard Michel2000
VII : Artistic creation in the cinema and audio-visual fields
  • Seat #1 was transferred to section V in 1998.

For a list of previous members, see:
"List of Académie des Beaux-Arts members: Cinema"

2Roman Polanski1998
3Jean-Jacques Annaud2007
4Coline Serreau2018
5Jacques Perrin2016
6Régis Wargnier2007
7Frédéric Mitterrand2019
VIII : Photography
  • Seat #1 was previously occupied by Lucien Clergue (1934-2014)
  • Seats #3 and #4 were established in 2016
 1Sebastião Salgado2016
2Yann Arthus-Bertrand2006
3Dominique Issermann2021
4Jean Gaumy2016
IX : Choreography 1Thierry Malandain2019
2Blanca Li2019
3Angelin Preljocaj2019
4Carolyn Carlson2020
Foreign associate members 1Antonio López García2012
2Vacant2016
3Moza bint Nasser2007
4Karim Aga Khan IV2007
5Annie Leibovitz2022
6Giuseppe Penone2022
7Léonard Gianadda2001
8Georg Baselitz2019
9Vacant2019
10Woody Allen2004
11Norman Foster2007
12Jiří Kylián2018
13William Kentridge2021
14Seiji Ozawa2001
15Farah Pahlavi1974
16Philippe de Montebello2012

See also

References

  1. ↑ Académie des Beaux-Arts. Archived 8 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine. Prix et Concours.
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