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Atelier 17

Art school based in Paris, France

Summary

Art school based in Paris, France

Field	Value
name	Atelier 17
other_name	Atelier Dix-Sept
type	Private art school
established
closed
founder	Stanley William Hayter
address	17 Rue Campagne Première
city	Paris
country	France
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Atelier 17 was an art school and studio that was influential in the teaching and promotion of printmaking in the 20th century. Originally located in Paris, the studio relocated to New York City during the years surrounding World War II. It moved back to Paris in 1950.

History

The Atelier 17 studio was formed as an experimental workshop for the graphic arts in Paris, France in 1927 by Stanley William Hayter (1901–1988). The studio was known for its collaborative atmosphere, with artists sharing ideas on technique and aesthetics.

The studio was located at 17 rue Campagne-Première in Paris. By 1940 the studio's founder, Hayter, left Paris as World War II was starting. He moved to New York City and reopened his Atelier 17 studio there. Originally connected to the New School, by 1945 the studio was located as East 8th Street. The studio attracted many European artists who had fled from Europe and also introduced American artists to fine art printmaking.

Hayter ran the workshop with the expectation that all the artists working there would learn from each other and become proficient in all aspects of intaglio printing. The Atelier brought together Americans with artists that had fled Europe to New York.

Hayter moved his studio back to Paris in 1950 where it continued to operate until Hayter's death in 1988. That year the studio was renamed Atelier Contrepoint and remains active.

Techniques

Atelier 17 artists worked with established and experimental techniques including multi-color printing and textured patterns. Among the techniques used were aquatint, color offset printing, etching, the Grible Method, liftground, line engraving, and mezzotint.

The Atelier 17 studio created the earliest examples of viscosity printing and is credited with inventing the process.

Artists associated with Atelier 17

The catalogue for the Atelier 17 50th anniversary retrospective includes the names of artists who worked at Atelier 17.

Paris (1927–1939)

Jankel Adler
Rose Adler
Werner von Alvensleben
Flora Blanc
Victor Brauner
Sergio Brignoni
John Buckland Wright
Massimo Campigli
Anita de Caro
Óscar Domínguez
Max Ernst
Philip Evergood
John Ferren
Leonor Fini
Alberto Giacometti
Richard Gump
Stanley William Hayter
Gerold Heinz Luft
Józef Hecht
Richard Hollander
Dalla Husband
Buffie Johnson
Maximillian Kolos-Vari
Elvira Kourjoudjian
Georges Lecoq-Vallon
Fedor Loevenstein
Hope Manchester
Georg Mayer-Marton
Salvatore Mayo
Roderick Fletcher Mead
Joan Miró
Magdeleine Mocquot
Nina Negri
Tarō Okamoto
Jeanne Bieruma Oosting
Cathal Brendan O'Toole
Wolfgang Paalen
Gabor Peterdi
Helen Phillips
Anton Prinner
Siri Rathsman
Dickson Reeder
Dolf Rieser
David Smith
Ferdinand Springer
Hedda Sterne
Árpád Szenes
Yves Tanguy
Julian Trevelyan
Raoul Ubac
Andre Vallon
Luis Vargas
Roger Vieillard
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
Mary Wykeham

New York (1940–1955)

Ellen Abbey
E.B. Adam
Adolf Aldrich
Garo Antreasian
Nemesio Antúnez
Irene "Fif" Aronson
Lily Ascher
Margaret Balzer
William Baziotes
Frederick G. Becker
Ben-Zion
Harriet Berger Nurkse
Isabel Bishop
Grace Borgenicht
Louise Bourgeois
Paul Brach
Cynthia Brants
Theodore Brenson
Robert Broner
Letterio Calapai
Alexander Calder
Sylvia Carewe
Marc Chagall
Margaret Cilento
Minna Citron
Le Corbusier
Ed Countey
Ruth Cyril
Salvador Dalí
Worden Day
Dorothy Dehner
Willem de Kooning
Sari Dienes
Werner Drewes
Virginia Dudley
Carlos Dyer
Thomas Brownell Eldred
Christine Engler
Francine Felsenthal
Perle Fine
James Flora
Teresa D'Amico Fourpome
Jean Eda Francksen
Friedrich Friedel
Sue Fuller
Robert Gardner
Jan Gelb
Milton Gendel
James Goetz
Douglas Gorsline
Peter Grippe
Salvatore Grippi
José Guerrero
Alan Gussow
Terry Haass
Hazel Hanson
Stanley William Hayter
Joseph Heil
Anita Heiman
Fannie Hillsmith
Harry Hoehn
Harry Holtzman
Ian Hugo
Lotte Jacobi
Raymond Jordan
Reuben Kadish
Sam Kaner
Philip Kaplan
Leon Karp
Leo Katz
Mar Jean Kettunen
Dina Gustin Baker
Kenneth Kilstrom
James Kleege
Chaim Koppelman
Wifredo Lam
Armin Landeck
Mauricio Lasansky
Ruth Leaf
Jacques Lipchitz
Ryah Ludins
Malazinshas
Reginald Marsh
Ezio Martinelli
Maria Martins
Alice Trumbull Mason
André Masson
Matta (Sebastian Antonio Echaurren)
Richard Meyers
Joan Miró
Frances Mitchell
David Moore
Norma Morgan
Jean Morrison Becker
Robert Motherwell
Seong Moy
Lee Mullican
Louise Nevelson
Hubert Norton
Lillian Orloff
George Ortman
Vevean Oviette
Harold Paris
Robert Andrew Parker
Joellen Peet
Irene Rice Pereira
Gabor Peterdi
Dimitri Petrov
Helen Phillips
Ron Pierson
Daniel Philip Platt
Jackson Pollock
Josef Presser
Lucia Quintero
Andre Racz
Abraham Rattner
Henry Regis
Jean-Paul Riopelle
Kurt Roesch
Louis Ross
Mark Rothko
David Ruff
Alfred Russell
Anne Ryan
Louis Schanker
Karl Schrag
Bess Schuyler
Kenneth Scott
Doris Seidler
Evangeline St. Claire
Rufino Tamayo
Yves Tanguy
Ruthven Todd
Mollie Tureske
Sybilla Mittell Weber
Anne Wienholt
Pennerton West
Jonathan Williams
Larry Winston
Madeleine Wormser
Ana Rosa de Ycaza
Enrique Zañartu

Legacy

Atelier 17 and artists associated with it have been the subject of several comprehensive exhibitions, notably Atelier 17: a 50th anniversary retrospective exhibition at the Elvehjem Art Center of the University of Wisconsin in 1977, Atelier 17 at the Brooklyn Museum in 1978, Workshop and Legacy: Stanley William Hayter, Krishna Reddy, Zarina Hashmi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2016, and Cutting Edge: Modern Prints from Atelier 17 at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

References

"Expanding Possibilities: Stanley William Hayter and Atelier 17".
"20th Century modern printmaking - S. W. Hayter - Atelier 17".
"Atelier 17".
"Stanley William Hayter & Atelier 17, 1940-1949".
"The Imprint of Atelier 17 - Introduction".
(1995). "Printmaking in America : collaborative prints and presses, 1960-1990". H.N. Abrams in association with Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University.
(16 February 2017). "Atelier 17".
"Atelier 17 - Leo Katz".
(1977). "Atelier 17: A 50th anniversary retrospective exhibition". Elvehjem Art Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
(25 June 2019). "Evangeline St. Claire". Christina Weyl, New York.
(2 November 2016). "Cutting Edge: Modern Prints from Atelier 17".

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