Camille Claudel

Camille Claudel (Fère-in-Tardenois (Aisne) the December 8th 1864 - Montdevergues, (Vaucluse) the October 19th 1943) is a French sculptrice , sister of the poet and writer Paul Claudel. She is also known for her passion and tumultuous relation with the sculptor Rodin, twenty-four years her groin.

Biography

Camille Claudel is born with Fère-in-Tardenois (Aisne) the December 8th 1864, of Louis-Prosper Claudel, civil servant of the taxes, and Louise-Athanaïse Cerveaux, girl of the doctor and niece of the priest of the village. After the disappearance of Charles-Henri (born in August 1863), the first wire of the couple, died in low age, Camille becomes the elder one of a family which will count two other births.

Thereafter, the couple settles with Villeneuve-on-Fère in Champagne, Camille passes there its childhood surrounded by his/her Louise sister, born in February 1866 and from his/her young brother Paul, born in August 1868. As of childhood, Camille is impassioned by the sculpture and is initiated on clay. Supported constantly by his/her father who takes council near Alfred Boucher, Camille meets however the reserves of his/her mother concerning her choice of a life dedicated to Article.

Camille persuades its family to move in with Paris in 1882, except for his/her father retained by his professional obligations, in order to improve its art near the Masters.

She follows, first of all, of the courses to the Colarossi Academy. Thereafter, it rents a workshop with English coeds of which Jessie Lipscomb with which it will bind of a deep friendship. She initially studied with Alfred Boucher, then, when this one gains the Price of Rome and settles with the Médicis Villa, with Auguste Rodin of which she becomes one of the collaborators, in particular near a monumental work such that “the Door of the hell”. Little by little their relation moults, so much so that of apprentie it becomes its mistress, whereas he lives with Pink Beuret.

She is also used as model in Rodin, inspiring to him by works like Danaïde , Fugit Amor … both will live soon a stimulative but stormy passion in which art will intermingle with the two artists, so much so that the art of Camille is regarded as that of Rodin. But, as Paul Claudel will note it while speaking about his sister: “It is not any more of Rodin”.

End-of-life

Forsaken by Rodin, living misérablement - fault of the government orders required by its enthusiastic admiror Octave Mirbeau, which proclaimed with three recoveries its “genius” in the large press -, Camille Claudel is locked up soon in loneliness and sinks little by little in the insanity. It is 48 years old when his/her father dies and that its family, not supporting its mistakes more, decides to intern him in 1913. It will spend the 30 last years of its life to the lunatic asylum of Montdevergues, with Montfavet close to Avignon, where it was very unhappy, without anything to obtain from what it asked, without receiving only one visit of his/her mother nor of her sister, but only of her brother Paul who came to see it once per annum. She dies on October 19th, 1943 of a ictus. She is buried a few days later with the cemetery of Montfavet in front of the personnel of the hospital.

Works

Camille Claudel is regarded today as a major artist of the end of the 19th century, artist in phase with the art of its time .

With the Museum Rodin, in Paris, part of its sculptures is exposed in a room which is devoted to him.

  • the Ripe age ( 1° version out of plaster, 2° version out of bronze.)
  • the Small Lady of the manor (marble)
  • Thought (marble)
  • Paul Claudel of thirty-seven years (bronzes)
  • Imploring the (reduction, bronzes)
  • Clotho (plaster)
  • the Love seats (plaster version, onyx version, bronze version)
  • the Waltz (bronzes)
  • Buste of Rodin (plaster version, bronze version)
  • Vertumne and Pomone (marble)
  • the Wave (does onyx and bronze)
  • Profonde Thought (bronzes)
  • Profonde Thought (marble)
  • the young girl with the sheaf (bronzes)
  • Sakountala (clay)
  • the Abandonment (bronzes)
  • Niobide wounded (bronzes)
  • Young woman with the closed eyes (clay?)

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