18/12/2024
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CAMILLE CLAUDEL. Born in 1864 and died in 1943. FORGOTTEN by all in a mental hospital.
What had she done?
Come to study in PARIS at a time when the Fine Arts School is open ONLY to MEN. That's why he takes lessons in artist studios who accept WOMEN. Meet and become a lover of the most famous sculptor of the moment: Auguste Rodin. It will be a passionate and artistic relationship, they work together, sculpt together (the Rodin museum and the Orsay museum preserve beautiful works of this era).
Then he leaves her, he who has lived with another woman for years, him, the artist loved and respected by all... she is denigrated, abandoned and marginalized even "artistically". She lives alone, she no longer trusts anyone and her WORKS are not for sale. We add to this that his brother is the famous poet, writer, diplomat and academic: Paul Claudel.
The FAMILY decides to INTERNATE HER, this WOMAN too "MODERN" for the time is the embarrassment of the house. We have letters he writes to friends and family asking for help, for 30 years he will try to explain to hospital staff the INJUSTICE he is experiencing.
These are heart-wrenching testimonies, which reveal the lucidity of the WOMAN in the hospital. He practically STARVED to death on October 19, 1943 in a French public hospital and no member of his family will attend his FUNERAL. His remains will be laid in a common grave.
Today the figure of CAMILLE CLAUDEL has been completely REHABILATED, her works are exhibited NEXT to Rodin's and a museum a few kilometers from Paris is completely DEDICATED to her
