Camille Claudel was a French sculptor known for emotionally intense figurative works in bronze and marble, produced both during a long professional and personal collaboration with Auguste Rodin and independently under her own name. Works such as The Waltz and The Age of Maturity display a technical mastery of the human figure in motion comparable to Rodin's own, and her mature independent work increasingly moved toward more personal, psychologically charged subject matter distinct from his influence. Claudel's career was cut short when her family committed her to a psychiatric institution in 1913, where she remained for the last three decades of her life without producing further work, and her long historical eclipse behind Rodin's reputation has been substantially reassessed by later scholarship recognizing her independent achievement.
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Camille Rosalie Claudel (French pronunciation: [kamij klodɛl] ; 8 December 1864 – 19 October 1943) was a French sculptor known for her figurative works in bronze and marble.
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8 December 1864
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19 October 1943
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was a French sculptor known for her figurative works in bronze and marble.
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8 December 1864
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Camille Claudel died on 19 October 1943
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Camille Claudel was born in Fère-en-Tardenois, Aisne, in northern France, the first child of a family of farmers and gentry.
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after having lived 30 years in the asylum at Montfavet
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She also studied with sculptor Alfred Boucher, who gave free classes to her and some other students.
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Camille Rosalie Claudel (French pronunciation: [kamij klodɛl] ; 8 December 1864 - 19 October 1943) was a French sculptor known for her figurative works in bronze and marble.
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Claudel started working in Rodin's workshop in 1883 and became a source of inspiration for him.
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Claudel's sculptures are noted for their candid exploration of female subjectivity and emotional depth, and they played a formative role in shaping expressive modernist figuration in Europe, influencing later women sculptors including Germaine Richier and Louise Bourgeois.
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