You Must Change Your Life (48 page)

Rodin's letters to, 185, 186, 190

Rodin's
Man with the Broken Nose
and, 33

Rodin's Meudon villa and studio and, 83–90, 91, 127–37, 138–43, 150–52, 207, 208, 240, 245–47

Rodin's reconciliation with, 190, 191–93, 208

Rodin's secretaryship and, 129–32, 134, 136–37, 150–52, 156, 190

Rodin's
Thinker
and, 41, 75

self-study course of, 121–22

Shaw and, 141, 151, 152

Simmel and, 23, 122–23, 124, 125, 126

sister and, 15, 217

Switzerland and, 256–63,
257
,
261

Thurn und Taxis and, 203–5, 208, 217, 223, 224, 237, 238, 251

Tolstoy and, 28–29, 64, 84, 106, 182, 202

“Visions of Christ” cycle and, 26

Vogeler collaboration and, 64

Westerwede and, 70,
70

Westhoff courted by, 65–68

Westhoff's divorce from, 221–22

Westhoff's engagement to, 68–69

Westhoff's marriage to, 70,
70
, 160–61, 162, 176, 189, 217, 221–22

windows and, 260

women and, ix, 192–93

“worldinnerspace” and, 260–61

World War I and, 247–48, 250–52, 255

Worpswede and, 64–70, 71, 74, 94, 114, 118–19, 120, 126

Rilke, Ruth, 70–71,
73
, 109, 119, 124, 134, 160, 175, 221, 248, 258–59, 262

Rilke, Sophia, 15–17, 185

Rodin, Auguste,
11
,
80
,
243
, 257

abstract art and, 126, 163–69

American art market and, 170–71

animals and, 98–99, 100–101

antiquities and, 169

Barye and, 13–14, 98–99, 101

Becker and, 106–7

Beuret and, 34–36, 37, 38, 44, 45–46, 84, 85–86, 88, 132–34,
133
, 153, 227–28, 229, 230, 246, 249, 250, 252

birth of, 4

Cambodian drawings by, 183–84, 185, 220

Cathédral Saint-Pierre and, 3–4

cathedral visits and, 132–35, 242–45

Cézanne and, 44–45, 169, 182

Chartres cathedral and, 134–35, 184, 243

Choiseul and, 148–50,
150
, 169–71, 194–95, 213, 226, 227–29

Claudel and, 42–44, 45–48, 51, 61, 84, 148, 149, 228

Coburn's photograph of, 142,
143

death of, 253–54

despotic behavior and, 151–52, 153

Duncan and, 147–48

education of, 3–10, 13, 32, 36, 55, 88, 136

England and, 54–55

English exile and, 249–50

fabrication and manufacturing of works of, 153, 171, 207

fear of death and, 207, 237, 262

female models and, 144–46

Fourquet and, 9

Gates of Hell
project of, 38–42,
39
, 43, 51, 61, 87, 113

Gregorian chants and, 195

hands as specialty of, 87

health issues of, 137, 139, 230, 237, 253

Hôtel Biron and, 194–95, 198, 206–8, 213–15, 217, 223–30, 245, 248, 252, 254

human form and, 9, 12–14, 34, 36

Italy and, 36–37, 38, 95, 250

Kiss
and, viii, 8, 44, 61, 75,
82
, 171

Lecoq and, 6–8, 36, 55, 88

letters to Rilke from, 185, 186, 190

Letters to a Young Poet
and, viii, 110, 112, 120, 212

literature and, 74–75

Louvre and, 7, 36, 92, 102, 127

Ludovici and, 153–55

Man with the Broken Nose
of, 32–34, 36, 54

Matisse and, 168–69, 172

Metropolitan Museum and, 41, 170–71, 214

Meudon villa and studio of, 83–90, 91, 106–7, 126–37, 138–43, 150–55, 186, 190, 191, 200–201, 207, 208, 227, 240, 244, 245–47, 248, 249, 252, 253

Monument to Balzac
of, 51–54,
52
, 61, 141, 192, 201

nature and, 11–12, 89, 230

nude drawings of, 145, 146, 169, 170, 223, 225

Paris studio of, 32–35, 38–40, 42, 45, 58, 81–83, 100, 106, 129, 139, 144–50

Paris World's Fair and, 58–62, 86, 128, 153

Prague and Secession exhibitions and, 74

press and, 225–26

Reims cathedral and, 243–44, 249–50

Renoir and, 242, 245

Rilke compared to, viii–ix

Rilke's final break with, 240–41, 242–45

Rilke's first meeting with, 81–83

Rilke's letters to, 90–91, 156, 184, 190, 192, 199, 240

Rilke's monograph on, 74–76, 92, 95–97, 98, 104, 106, 107, 113–14, 115, 125, 154–55, 185, 210, 240, 256

Rilke's
New Poems
and, 199

Rilke's reconciliation with, 190, 191–93, 208

Rilke's secretaryship and, 129–32, 134, 136–37, 150–52, 156, 190

Rodin museum proposal and, 213–14, 217, 223, 224–26

sexuality and, 145–48, 169–70

Shaw and, 139–43,
143
, 151, 152

Simmel and, 124, 145, 146, 164

Simon and, 11–12

son of,
see
Beuret, August-Eugène

Spanish trip and, 126, 167

style developed by, 8, 14

success and, 127–28, 136, 153, 171

“Sultan of Meudon” nickname and, 146

surmoulage
charge and, 37–38

tactile intelligence and, 6

teaching and, 54–55, 56, 58, 59

Thinker
and, viii, 36, 40–41, 61, 75, 135–36, 138, 141, 151, 152, 243, 252

tomb of,
253

trade sculpting work and, 10–12, 32, 35

Varèse and, 126–27

vision problems and, 6–7

Westhoff and, 58, 75, 114, 125, 175, 191, 240, 246

women and, ix, 44, 97, 144–50, 153, 169–70, 192–93, 206, 207, 229–30

work as ideal of, 85, 93, 106, 107, 199, 207, 211, 246, 247

working style of, 91–92

World War I and, 248–50

Zola's falling out with, 53–54

Rodin, Jean-Baptiste, 4–5, 10

Rodin, Marie, 5

Rodin Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.), 171

“Rodin's Work as an Expression of the Modern Spirit” (Simmel), 123

Roman Catholic Church, 221–22

Romanelli, Mimi, 189

Romantic movement, 216

Rome, Italy, 36, 250

Rostand, Edmond, 196

Rostand, Maurice, 196

Rothenstein, William, 54, 151, 152

Rougon-Macquart novels (Zola), 51

Rousseau, Henri, 99

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 135

Royal Court Theatre, 139

Rubens, Peter Paul, 7

Russian Empire, 28, 248

Ryan, Thomas Fortune, 170

Rysselberghe, Théo Van, 219

Sacré-Cœur school, 173

Sade, Marquis de, 259

St. Denis, Ruth, 146

St. John the Baptist
(Rodin), 169

St. Pölten military academy, 17–19, 103, 104

Salomé, Lou,
see
Andreas-Salomé, Lou

Salon d'Automne, 166, 174, 179–82, 183, 187

Salon de la Société Nationale, 51–52

Salon des Refusés, 33

Salpêtrière (Paris hospital), 49–50

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 219

Saturday Review
, 139

Schaer, Alfred, 190

Schéhérazade
, 196

Schiele, Egon, 145

Schiller, Friedrich, 17, 103

Schröder, Martha, 70

Seagull, The
(Chekhov), 64

Secession Exhibition (Vienna, 1902), 74

“Self-Portrait from the Year 1906” (Rilke), 156

Serbia, 248

Serf, The
(Matisse), 169

Seurat, Georges, 6

Shakespeare and Company, 213

Shaw, George Bernard, 139–43,
143
, 151, 152

Sieber, Carl, 109, 259

Simmel, Georg, 23, 122–23, 124, 125, 126, 145, 146, 164, 165

Simon, Constant, 11–12

Sistine Chapel, 36

Society of Men and Letters, 45, 141

Socrates, 132

Sonnets to Orpheus
(Rilke), 258

Sorbonne, 80

Spain, Rodin and, 126, 167

Steichen, Edward, 41,
52
, 61, 142, 169–70

Stieglitz, Alfred, 170

Stein, Gertrude, 172

Stein, Leo, 180

Strait is the Gate
(Gide), 202

surmoulage
, 37–38

Switzerland, Rilke and, 256–63,
257
,
261

Symbolists, 93, 244

Tardieu, Charles, 37

Tellegen, Lou, 152

Théâtre de la Gaîté, 34

Thinker, The
(Rodin), viii, 36, 40–41, 61, 75, 135–36, 138, 141, 151, 152, 243, 252

Panthéon installation of, 135–36, 138, 141, 151, 152

Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
(Freud), 145

Thurn und Taxis, Marie von, 203–5, 208, 217, 223, 224, 237, 238, 251

Thus Spoke Zarathustra
(Nietzsche), 25, 209

Thyssen-Bornemisza, Heinrich, 151

Timi
oara, Romania, 104

Tirel, Marcelle, 228, 252

Titchener, Edward, 22

Titian, 7, 206

Tolstoy, Leo, 28–29, 64, 84, 106, 182, 202

Tolstoy, Sophia, 29

Torso of Belvedere
(Apollonios), 40, 209

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 163, 191

Trakl, Georg, 250

Trocadéro Museum, 164, 166–67

Tunisia, Rilke and, 220–21

“Turning” (Rilke), 247

Turquet, Edmond, 38

Ugolino, 40

Valerie (Rilke girlfriend), 19

Valéry, Paul, 53, 93

Varèse, Edgard, 126–27, 129

Velde, Henry van de, 219

Venice Biennale (1902), 97

Venus de Milo
, 92, 93

Versailles, Château de, 132

Viareggio, Italy, 111–14

Victoria and Albert Museum, 250

Villa des Brillants (Rodin villa), 83–90, 91, 106–7

Villa Montmorency (Paris, France), 218

Vischer, Robert, 22

Vision of St. John, The
(Greco), 167

“Visions of Christ” cycle (Rilke), 26

Vlaminck, Maurice de, 179

Vogeler, Heinrich, 63–64, 70, 114, 118

Vogue
, 149

Voltaire, 135

Wagner, Richard, 176

Wagner, Siegfried, 24

Walking Man, The
(Rodin), 61, 169, 194

Wassermann, Jakob, 24, 26

Weber, Max, 172

Weber, Nicholas Fox, 260

Weimar, Germany, Nietzsche Archive in, 219

weltinnenraum
(“worldinnerspace”), 260–61

Westerwede, Germany, 70

Westhoff, Clara, 131, 134

Andreas-Salomé and, 69, 123–24, 137, 160–61, 200–201

Becker's childbirth and, 187

Becker's death and, 188

Becker's estrangement from, 68–69, 71–72

Egypt and, 161–62, 177, 220

father's death and, 127

Munich and, 56, 221, 238, 240–41

Paris and, 55, 56–59, 62, 97–98, 104–7, 111, 112, 114, 124, 175, 190, 191, 240, 254

psychoanalysis and, 221, 238

Rilke's courtship of, 65–69

Rilke's divorce from, 221–22

Rilke's letters to, 63, 69, 83, 88, 90, 125, 156, 160–61, 178, 181, 182, 183, 185–86, 187, 193–94, 208–9, 221, 254

Rilke's marriage to, 70,
70
, 160–61, 162, 176, 189, 217, 221–22

Rilke's posthumous works and, 109

Rilke's “Requiem to a Friend” and, 198

Rilke's Rodin monograph and, 74, 113–14

Rodin and, 58, 75, 114, 125, 175, 191, 240, 246

Rodin's death and, 253

Worpswede and, 56,
57
, 64–75,
73
, 118–19, 124, 177, 178, 187, 188, 217

Wharton, Edith, 150

When We Dead Awaken
(Ibsen), 48

Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt, 150

Whitney, Sarah, 55

“Why Sculpture Is Boring” (Baudelaire), 33

Wilde, Oscar, 61, 141, 176, 214

Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany, 250

Windows
(Rilke), 260

Winged Victory of Samothrace
, 93

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 251

Wolff, Kurt, 258

Woman with a Hat
(Gide), 214

World of Art
, 64

“worldinnerspace” (
weltinnenraum
), 260–61

World's Fair (1878), 164

World's Fair (1900), 58–62,
60
, 63, 86, 128, 153

World War I, 212, 236, 247–52,
249
, 254, 255

Worpswede, Germany, 62, 63–70, 106

Becker and, 56,
57
, 64–67, 71–72, 105, 125–26, 155, 187–88

Kalckreuth and, 198

Rilke and, 64–70, 71, 74, 94, 114, 118–19, 120, 126

Rilke's monograph on artists in, 70, 74, 118–19

Westhoff and, 56,
57
, 64–75,
73
, 118–19, 124, 177, 178, 187, 188, 217

Worringer, Wilhelm, 23, 163–66, 259

Wright, H. T. Tobias A., 113

Wundt, Wilhelm, 21

Yeats, William Butler, 145

Young, Ella, 145

Zola, Émile, 4, 45, 51, 52, 53–54, 135

Zuloaga, Ignacio, 97, 107, 121, 126, 167

Zweig, Stefan, 28, 45, 103, 119

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