Robert Völcker | Romantic painter
Camille Claudel | Study of Left Hand, 1889
Did you know many of Auguste Rodin's statues' hands and feet were modeled by Camille Claudel (1864-1943) while she worked in his studio?
A common friend wrote in 1898 that many of her hands and feet are "preserved with great care by her teacher as pieces of the rarest perfection".
A stunning artist in her own right, Claudel impressed Rodin and many others for her incredibly expressive and life-like sculptures.
This bronze study of a left hand by Claudel, while tiny, holds immense detail and vitality.
Camille Claudel | Study of Left Hand, 1889 | Collection Xavier Eeckhout, Courtesy Galerie Malaquais
Friedrich Kallmorgen | Impressionist painter
Friedrich Kallmorgen (1856-1924) was a German Impressionist painter who specialized in landscapes and cityscapes.
His father was an architect. From 1862 to 1863, he received his first drawing lessons from his uncle, the portrait and landscape painter Theodor Kuchel.
In 1875, he enrolled at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied with Andreas Müller, Ernst Deger and Eugen Dücker.
Ancient Jordanian site of Petra | Roman period
Petra is a historical and archaeological city in the Jordanian governorate of Ma'an that is known for its rock cut architecture and water conduits system.
Established sometime around the 6th century BC as the capital city of the Nabataeans, it is a symbol of Jordan as well as its most visited tourism attraction.
It lies on the slope of Mount Hor in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah (Wadi Araba), the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba.
Vladimir Majakovskij e Maria Denisova, un Amore disperato
La storia del poema "La nuvola in calzoni" / "Облако в штанах" è collegata all'amore tormentato e non corrisposto del poeta Russo Vladimir Majakovskij (1893-1930) per la scultrice monumentale Russa, Maria Alexandrovna Denisova (1894-1944).
I due si incontrarono nel 1914 ad Odessa, durante il viaggio dei futuristi del 1913.
"La nuvola" è il capolavoro della stagione "prerivoluzionaria" di Majakovskij, uno dei testi più significativi del futurismo russo e della letteratura russa del Novecento.
Composto tra il 1914-1915 da un Majakovskij poco più che ventenne, il poemetto trabocca di una forza lirica tesa, appassionata, che vuole essere dissacrante, antiborghese, antifilistea, ed è soprattutto intensamente libertaria.
Majakovskij vuol portare dentro l'arte della parola la carica dirompente di una visione nuova o rinnovata della realtà, dei sentimenti, dell'idea stessa della poesia e della scrittura.
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