Camille Claudel and Bernhard Hoetger – Emancipation from Rodin

Böttcherstrasse Museums

Guided tour through the special exhibition from 25 January to 18 May 2025

The special exhibition ‘Camille Claudel & Bernhard Hoetger. Emancipation from Rodin’ looks at key creative phases of the two artists. Both initially modelled their work on Rodin, before later emancipating themselves from him. The exhibition shows the transformation from early works strongly influenced by Rodin’s impressionist style to their own formal language with an artistic vitality and radiance that is still impressive today.

With ‘Camille Claudel & Bernhard Hoetger. Emancipation from Rodin’, the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum is showing the most comprehensive presentation of works by Camille Claudel in Germany for almost twenty years.
The exhibition is a co-operation between the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, the Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, and the Musée Camille Claudel, Nogent-sur-Seine.
A combination with a guided tour through the Böttcherstraße is possible.

Guided tour through the special exhibition at a glance

Bremer Promenaden offers the guided tour in German, English, Italian and French

Duration of the tour: one hour, in combination with a guided tour through Böttcherstraße up to two hours

Good to know: The museum is not barrier-free. The exhibition is spread over four rooms on the first floor of the museum. The paintings by Paula Modesohn-Becker are back from America and can be seen in room 1 and on the upper floors. The museum is closed on Mondays. It is possible to stay longer to see the rest of the museum.

• Group size maximum 20 people
• Foreign language: 1 hour 135,00€ incl. licence fee plus admission to the museum