Camille Claudel & Bernhard Hoetger: the 1905 Exhibition — Musée Camille Claudel, Nogent-sur-Seine, 12 September 2026 – 10 January 2027

In 1905 Camille Claudel and Bernhard Hoetger showed their work together in Paris, in a gallery where both were trying to be seen as something other than pupils of Auguste Rodin. One hundred and twenty years later the Musée Camille Claudel in Nogent-sur-Seine reassembles that exhibition: more than a hundred and twenty sculptures, drawings, paintings and photographs, brought back into one set of rooms.

The show does two things at once. It introduces Hoetger, a German sculptor little known in France, to a French public for the first time; and it lights the years of Claudel’s career that are usually passed over in a sentence — the last working years before her internment. The exhibition was seen in 2025 at the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum in Bremen and at the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin before coming to Nogent-sur-Seine, the town where the Claudel family lived and where Camille Claudel first worked in clay.

Practical details

• Dates: 12 September 2026 – 10 January 2027
• Where: Musée Camille Claudel, 10 rue Gustave Flaubert, 10400 Nogent-sur-Seine, France
• Organised by: Musée Camille Claudel, after the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, and the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
• Information: museecamilleclaudel.fr — +33 3 25 24 76 34

Cultural Heritage Online lists this exhibition because it is a reconstruction as much as a display: a documented moment of 1905, put back together in the town that holds the largest public collection of Camille Claudel’s work.