Espace Frans Krajcberg, Contemporary Art Center, Art and Nature is located at the end of the Chemin du Montparnasse, a charming lane situated at 21 avenue du Maine in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.​ A relic of Montparnasse’s grand history, the Chemin has witnessed some of the greatest names in the artistic scene of its time. In 1908, the painter Marie Vassilieff opened the Russian Academy here, frequented by Erik Satie, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, as well as Ossip Zadkine and Chaïm Soutine.

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During the First World War, to support her artist friends during the conflict, Marie Vassilieff opened a canteen where Picasso, Braque, Léger, Matisse, Foujita, and many others came to eat for just a few sous.

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After the Academy closed, the Chemin du Montparnasse continued to welcome many artists, students from the Beaux-Arts, avant-garde theater groups, publishers, photographers, filmmakers, galleries, and later the Montparnasse Museum, which since 2016 has been transformed into the Villa Vassilieff.

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But above all, the Chemin was home to Frans Krajcberg’s Paris studio, where—true to the “Montparno” spirit—he came to work and recharge several times a year from the early 1960s until his death in November 2017.