EUROPE IMAGES INTERNATIONAL - M5

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It all began with an encounter between two people. In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke, an anxious, frail, unknown young man, went to Paris to write a monograph on Auguste Rodin, who was already a powerful, famous, fascinating "old man". This encounter led to a relationship between the two men which veered from emotion to violence. Rodin made Rilke his "plaything", and Rilke accepted it out of intellectual and physical fascination or, as some would claim, to make a name for himself in the Parisian intelligentsia of the day...

90th commemoration of Auguste Rodin's death on 2007/11/17

80th commemoration of Rainer Maria Rilke's death on 2006/12/29