Camille Claudel + Bernhard Hoetger – Alte Nationalgalerie

For the first time since 1905, the Alte Nationalgalerie is bringing together the sculptures of two artists whose work and paths crossed several times in Paris: Camille Claudel and Bernhard Hoetger. Both are united by their striving for recognition and their simultaneous rejection of the master of French sculpture, Auguste Rodin. In the midst of the Parisian avant-garde, both the French sculptor and the German sculptor, who was ten years younger, developed an artistic vitality that developed international appeal and is now being presented to the public together again after 120 years.

The Alte Nationalgalerie is dedicated to an encounter in early 20th century European art history that has received little attention and hardly been researched to date: Camille Claudel (1864-1943) and Bernhard Hoetger (1874-1949). In 1905, the Parisian gallery owner Eugène Blot organised a double exhibition for the French sculptor Camille Claudel and the young German artist Bernhard …

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Image above: Camille Claudel, L’Implorante (The Supplicant), 1894–1905, cast around 1905 bronze, 28.5 x 35 x 16.5 cm (small version) Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie / Photographer: Jan Brockhaus

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