You Must Change Your Life (46 page)

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    Adoc-photos / Art Resource, NY

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    Swiss National Library / NL, Swiss Literary Archives / SLA, Bern

25
    Photo by Jules Bonnet, Lucerne

39
    Rodin Museum, Bequest of Jules E. Mastbaum

52
    Edward Steichen, from Camera Work #34/35, 1911

57
    Paula Becker and Clara Westhoff in Becker's studio, c. 1899, Photo: unknown. Paula-Modersohn-Becker-Stiftung, Bremen

60
    Photoprint by William H. Rau

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    Rilke Archiv

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    Rilke Archiv

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    Rilke Archiv

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    Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University; Gift of Albert E. Elsen

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Rodin, Rose et Rilke dans le jardin de Meudon, en compagnie de deux chiens
; Ph.16497 by Albert Harlingue, Epreuve gélatinoargentique, 12.8x17.9 cm, Musée Rodin, Paris

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   George Eastman Museum, a digital positive from an original negative by Alvin Langdon Coburn

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   Arnold Genthe Collection, Library of Congress

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   © Ministère de la culture - Médiathèque du Patrimoine / [Henri Manuel] / dist. RMN

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   Paula Modersohn-Becker, Portrait of Rainer Maria Rilke, May/June 1906 Private collection; Photo: Paula-Modersohn-Becker-Stiftung, Bremen

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   Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie

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   Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie

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   Collier's New Photographic History of the World's War (1919)

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   Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie

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   Rilke Archiv

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   Rilke Archiv

INDEX

Page numbers listed correspond to the print edition of this book. You can use your device's search function to locate particular terms in the text.

Page numbers in
italics
refer to illustrations.

abstract art, 23, 163–69

Abstraction and Empathy: A Psychology of Style
(Worringer), 23, 163–66

Aesop, 153

aesthetics, 21, 24, 100

Africa, Rilke and, 220–21

Afternoon of a Faun
(Debussy and Nijinsky), 225

Age of Bronze, The
(Rodin), 37, 210

Age of Maturity, The
(Claudel), 47

Albert-Lasard, Loulou, 251

“Alcestis” (Rilke), 210

Anarchists, 227

Andreas, Carl, 26, 28

Andreas-Salomé, Lou, 24–31

Freud and, 117, 233–35

Nietzsche and, 24–25,
25

Rilke and, 24, 26–31, 64, 69, 114–18, 122, 123, 126, 129, 137, 156, 160–61, 165, 200–201, 204, 216, 220, 221, 237–39, 240, 247, 248

Westhoff and, 69, 123–24, 137, 160–61, 200–201

“Angel with the Sundial, The” (Rilke), 158

anti-Semitism, 53, 235

Apollinaire, Guillaume, 196

Apollo, 209–11, 243, 254

Apollonios, 40

Arabian Nights, The
, 220

“Archaic Torso of Apollo, The” (Rilke), 209–11

art:

abstractionism and, 23, 163–69

act of looking and, 22

empathy and, ix, 21–24, 100, 102, 117, 164

Art, L'
, 37

Artistic Life, The
(Geffroy), 98

Auguste Rodin
(Rilke monograph), 74–76, 92, 95–97, 98, 104, 106, 107, 113–14, 115, 125, 154–55, 185, 210, 240, 256

Aurore, L'
, 53

Austro-Hungarian Empire, 17, 28, 248, 255

Bacchante
(Rodin), 35

Baedeker, Karl, 86

Bagatelle Palace, 176

Ballet Russes, 218, 225

Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski), 257–58,
257
, 259–60, 263

Balzac, Honoré de, 5, 45

Rodin's monument to, 51–54,
52
, 61, 141, 192, 201

Banat Daily
, 212

Banville, John, 102

Barye, Antoine-Louis, 13–14, 98–99, 101

Baudelaire, Charles, 4, 5, 33, 40, 45, 80, 93, 95, 96, 174, 176, 182–83, 196, 216

Beach, Sylvia, 213, 254

Beauvais, France, 3–4, 5, 55, 134, 243

Becker, Paula, 56–57,
57
, 62, 64–67, 111, 124–26, 176, 177–78

daughter's birth and, 187

death of, 188, 189, 193, 197–98, 206

Modersohn's engagement to, 67, 70

Paris and, 56–57, 59, 62, 105–7, 155–59, 177

Rilke's portrait by, 157–58,
157

Rilke's Worpswede monograph and, 118–19

Rodin and, 106–7

Westhoff's distancing from, 68–69, 71–72

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

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 192

Beethoven Frieze
(Klimt), 74

Belgium, 250

Belgrade News
, 212

Benedict XV, Pope, 250, 252

Benjamin, Walter, 60

Berlin, Germany, 28, 29, 31, 122, 124, 159, 160, 217, 259

Bernhardt, Sarah, 175

Besnard, Paul-Albert, 51

Betz, Maurice, 109

Beuret, Auguste-Eugène, 35–36, 153–54, 248, 249, 252, 253

Beuret, Rose, 37, 38, 153, 229, 230, 246

birth of son and, 35–36

Choiseul and, 227–28

death of, 252

marriage of, 252

Rilke and, 84, 85–86, 88, 132–34,
133
, 162

Rodin's affair with Claudel and, 44, 45–46

Rodin's first meeting with, 34–35

tomb of,
253

World War I and, 249, 250

Bibi (Rodin model), 32–34

Bible, 155, 203

Bibliothèque Nationale, 7, 93, 121

binaries, 23

Biskra, Tunisia, 220

Blaue Reiter, Der (Blue Rider group), 166

Bloch, Jeanne, 175

“Blue Hydrangea” (Rilke), 181

Bonheur, Rosa, 13

Bonnard, Pierre, 182, 258

Book of Hours, The
(Rilke), 30, 70, 87–88, 114, 123, 136–37, 186, 256

Book of Pictures
(Rilke), 137

Botticelli, Sandro, 24

Boucher, Alfred, 42

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe, 6, 179

Bourdelle, Antoine, 55

Brancusi, Constantin, 24, 168

Brandes, Georg, 171

Braque, Georges, 166, 180

Brigge, Malte Laurids (char.), 102, 118, 183, 201–2, 206, 211, 215–17, 220, 239

Burghers of Calais, The
(Rodin), viii, 8, 43–44, 249

Byzantine Empire, 165

Calmette, Gaston, 225, 226

Cambodian Royal Ballet, 184

“Carcass, A” (Baudelaire), 182–83

Carpeaux, Jean Baptiste, 33

Carrièr, Eugène, 113, 129, 138

Carrier-Belleuse, Albert-Ernest, 35, 38, 87

Cathedral, The
(Rodin), 167

Cathédral Saint-Pierre, 3–4

Cathedrals of France
(Rodin), 243–45

Cézanne, Paul, 33, 44–45, 53, 57, 166, 169, 179–83, 187

Baudelaire and, 182–83

Chanel, Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco,” 225

Charcot, Jean-Martin, 49–51, 116, 138

Charcot Museum, 50

Chartres cathedral, 134–35, 158, 184, 243

Château d'Issy, 127

Chat Noir cabaret, 56

Chekhov, Anton, 64

Choiseul, Charles-August, Duc de, 149, 228

Choiseul, Claire Coudert, Duchesse de, 148–50,
150
, 169–71, 194–95, 196, 213, 226, 227–29

Cladel, Judith, 224, 249

Claretie, Jules, 49

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

Claudel, Paul, 47, 48

Clemenceau, Georges, 44

Club des Haschischins, 174

Coburn, Alvin Langdon, 142

Cocteau, Jean:

drug use and, 196, 197, 218

Duncan and, 147

Hôtel Biron and, 174–75, 194, 196–97, 198, 214

Rodin's art style and, 92

Colarossi Academy, 55

Concordia literary club, 185

Connoisseur
, 169

Coquiot, Gustave, 174

Counterfeiters, The
(Gide), 259

Courbet, Gustave, 61, 172

Cri de Paris, Le
, 229

Cubism, 163, 172, 180, 199

Cunard, Nancy, 54

Czech language, 17

Czechoslovakia, 255

Dante Alighieri, 38, 40, 42, 51, 95, 204–5

Darwin, Charles, 24, 53

David
(Michelangelo), 123

“Death of a Poet, The” (Rilke), 262

Debussy, Claude, 126, 224, 225

defense mechanisms, 236

Degas, Edgar, 53

Déjeuner sur l'herbe, Le
(Manet), 33, 176

Delacroix, Eugène, 13, 42, 61

Demoiselles d'Avignon, Les
(Picasso), 166–67

“Departure of the Prodigal Son, The” (Rilke), 159

Derain, André, 179

Desbois, Jules, 55

Descartes, René, 117

Diaghilev, Sergei, 64, 218, 225, 226

Diriks, Edvard, 178

Divine Comedy
(Dante), 38, 40, 205

Dôme café, 56

Dongen, Kees van, 80

Doolittle, Eliza (char.), 140

doppelgängers, 216

Dreyfus, Alfred, 53, 54

Duino Castle (Trieste, Italy), 204–5, 217, 223, 224, 236–39, 254

Duino Elegies
(Rilke), 236, 238, 239, 251, 258

Dujardin-Beaumetz, Henri, 141

Duncan, Isadora, 61, 147–48,
147
, 175, 194, 196

Dupuytren museum, 12

Dürer, Albrecht, 218

Düsseldorf Art Academy, 63

Echo and Narcissus
(Poussin), 260

École Impériale Spéciale de Dessin et de Mathématiques (Petite École), 6, 8, 9, 12

Egypt, 161–62, 165, 177, 220

Eiffel Tower, 60,
60

einfühlung
(feeling into), 22, 117, 164

einsehen
(inseeing), 99–100, 218

Eliot, T. S., 102

Elsen, Albert, 167

empathy, art and, ix, 21–24, 100, 102, 117, 164

Enfants Terribles, Les
(Cocteau), 174

England, Rodin and, 54–55

Erdmann-Macke, Elizabeth, 166

Ernst, Paul, 165

eugenics movement, 154

Existentialism, 219

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

Expressionist movement, 163, 165–66

Falguière, Alexandre, 38

Family of Saltimbanques
(Picasso), 251

Faure, Élie, 136

fauvists, 179

Fiedler, Fyodor, 28

Figaro, Le
, 225

Fleurs du Mal, Les
(Baudelaire), 4, 40, 176, 183

Florence, Italy, 36

Fourquet, Léon, 9

France, Anatole, 224

France, World War I and, 248–50,
249

Francesca, 40

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, 247

French, Daniel Chester, 170–71

French Revolution, 4, 136

French Symbolists, 93

Freud, Anna, 234, 235

Freud, Ernst, 235, 237

Freud, Sigmund, 23, 59, 145

Andreas-Salomé and, 117, 233–35

Charcot and, 50

Rilke and, 233, 234–36, 237

Friends of the Louvre, 214

Fry, Roger, 151

Fuller, Loie, 194

Futurism, 163

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 176, 183–84

Gates of Hell
(Rodin), 38–42,
39
, 43, 51, 61, 87, 113

Gates of Paradise
(Ghiberti), 38

Gauguin, Paul, 191

Gebsattel, Viktor Emil von, 221

Geffroy, Gustave, 14, 44, 98

German Empire, World War I and, 248, 249–50

German Romanticism, 216

Ghiberti, Lorenzo, 38

Gide, André, 202–3, 214

North Africa and, 220

Rilke and, 218–19, 259

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 18

Gogh, Vincent Van, 176, 191

Goncourt, Edmond de, 14, 42

Gonne, Maud, 145

Gothic architecture, 3–4, 36, 41, 93, 119, 134–35, 195, 242–45

Göttingen, Germany, 115, 123, 124, 247

Goya, Francisco, 126

Grande École des Beaux-Arts, 6, 8, 9, 44, 55, 136, 172

Greco, El, 97, 126, 167, 238

Greece, ancient, 164, 244

Gregorian chants, Rodin and, 195

Hahn, Reynaldo, 196

Hattingberg, Magda von, 245

Hauptmann, Carl, 65, 66, 158

Hauptmann, Gerhart, 217

Haussmann, Georges-Eugène, 5–6, 34

Heidegger, Martin, 182

Helg, Ursula, 165

Heller, Hugo, 185

Heydt, Karl von der, 137

“History of the Thirty-Years War” (Rilke), 18

Hitler, Adolf, 154

Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 216, 226

Hora
ek, Franz, 103, 108

Horse Fair, The
(Bonheur), 13

Hôtel Biron, 170–71, 172–75,
173
, 190, 191–208, 213–15, 217, 223–30, 237, 245, 248, 250, 252, 254

Hôtel du Quai Voltaire, 176–77

Hugo, Victor, 4, 8, 42, 45, 80, 128, 135, 201, 218