Camille Claudel

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1864 - 1943

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Camille Claudel was a talented French sculptor who was born in Fère-en-Tardonis in 1864 and led a tragic life. She was a gifted child that started sculpting people at a young age. When her dad noticed her talent, he asked sculptor Alfred Boucher to tutor her. Soon after, Claudel would study at the Acedémie Colorossi in Paris, still supervised by Alfred Boucher. When the director of the Académie des Beaux-Arts set his eyes on her work, he asked if she was tutored by Auguste Rodin. She had not met him at this point in time however. When Camille was 18 years old, Boucher asked Rodin to tutor Claudel from that moment on, which he accepted. Their student teacher relation eventually led to her being the mistress and muse of Auguste Rodin, who was 24 years older than Claudel. They worked together for about ten years, until Claudel decided to leave Rodin in 1893 because he did not give her enough room for creativity.

While Camille initially became slightly annoyed by Rodin, her feelings for the sculptor turned into hate over the years. She isolated herself and was not supported by her family. When her father, the only man that supported her artistic intentions, passed away in 1913, her brother Paul decided that a psychiatrical hospital would be fit for Camille because of her paranoia. Camille was arrested in 1913 and would never leave the psychiatric institution for the rest of her life. Her family neglected her and denied her existence. Even when she was declare cured in 1915, her family would not let her leave the institution. She would spend 30 tragic years in the psychiatric hospital, until she died in 1943.

Her works can be seen in multiple museums nowadays, with most of her works currently residing in the Rodin museum and the Camille Claudel museum in Nogent-Sur-Seine.

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