Rodin Museum

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The Musée Rodin in Paris (October 2019)

The Rodin Museum is an account opened in 1919, almost exclusively the work of French sculptor Auguste Rodin dedicated Museum in the rue de Varenne no. 77 in the 7th arrondissement of Paris .

History of origin

The "Hôtel du Maine" in the Plan de Turgot (1739)

The free-standing building in the Parisian district of Faubourg Saint-Germain was built between 1727 and 1731 as the Hôtel particulier ( German  "Stadtpalais" ) for the wig maker and speculator Abraham Peyrenc de Moras (1686-1732) by Jacques-Ange Gabriel and Jean Aubert and was named after him Named "Hôtel de Moras". Later it changed its name more often, depending on the owner. The map of Turgot from 1739 named it "Hôtel du Maine" after the Countess de Maine, who had a smaller building ( French petit hôtel ) built in the large garden in 1738 . After her death in 1753, Louis Antoine de Gontaut-Biron - Duke de Biron - acquired the property, which kept its name "Hôtel Biron" even after his death in 1788. After his widow, Duchess de Biron, died under the guillotine in 1794 , the property was taken over by her nephew, Duke de Béthune-Charost , who did not live here. In a city map from 1790 it was still called “Hotel Biron”, from 1808 to 1811 the Russian embassy resided here.

After that it stood empty until 1820, when it was acquired by the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Sacré-Cœur) ( French Couvent du Sacré Cœr ). The "Law on the Separation of Church and State" from 1904 allowed the French state to confiscate the area of ​​this ecclesiastical society. A group of artists such as Henri Matisse (1908–1909) or Jean Cocteau (1909–1910) settled here, including Clara Rilke-Westhoff in May 1909 , the wife of Rainer Maria Rilke , Rodin's secretary between 1905 and 1906 In October 1909 Auguste Rodin rented four rooms on the ground floor of the main house for 5900 francs a year. In December 1909 the property was up for sale for 5.1 million francs, whereupon Rodin expressed the wish to be allowed to live here until the end of his life. Senator Gaudin de Villaine intervened and prevented the sale. After some hesitation, the state agreed and on April 1, 1916, the area was converted into the "Musée Rodin". Rodin did not live to see the opening of the museum on August 4, 1919, as he had previously died on November 17, 1917.

Since February 1993 a state decree has regulated the organization of the museum. After three years of renovation, the house was reopened on November 12, 2015.

Exhibits

The world-famous exhibits on display in the museum include The Thinker from 1880 and The Kiss from 1886, the titles of which have become widely known. There are also works by Rodin's long-time lover, Camille Claudel , as well as Rodin's private collection and others. a. with paintings by Vincent van Gogh . The museum also houses the first bronze cast of the portal Das Höllentor (made posthumously in 1926), above which the first version of the thinker is enthroned as a relief.

See also

literature

  • Julia Droste-Hennings, Thorsten Droste: Paris. DuMont Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-7701-6090-8 , pp. 245-248
  • Heinfried Wischermann: Architecture Guide Paris. Gerd Hatje Verlag, Ostfildern 1997, ISBN 3-7757-0606-2 , p. 73

Web links

Commons : Musée Rodin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ryan K. Smith, Robert Morris's Folly , 2014, p. 93
  2. ^ Phil Kilroy, Madeleine Sophie Barat (1779-1865) , 2000, p. 1327
  3. ^ Ruth Butler, Rodin: The Shape of Genius , 1993, p. 461
  4. Alain Baraton, Dictionnaire amoureux des Jardins , 2012, oS
  5. Décret no 93-163 du 2 février 1993 relatif au musée Rodin (archive) JORF no 31 du 6 février 1993, p. 2023-2025, NOR MENB9200456D
  6. Réouverture musée Rodin bande annonce Musée Rodin, accessed November 12, 2015.

Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 19 ″  N , 2 ° 18 ′ 57 ″  E