In the Paris Rodin Museum is now exhibiting works from the collections of ancient sculpture of Sigmund Freud and Auguste Rodin

Sigmund Freud and Auguste Rodin had never met. But they had one common passion. They were both passionate and successful collectors of antique sculptures.

Now in the Rodin Museum in Paris, an exhibition, where you can see 280 items from these two fine collections. Nearly two out of the works included in the museum's own collection, while the rest came from the Freud Museum in London. On display are just a small part of two collections belonging to the famous psychoanalyst, and a great sculptor. For many years, Freud bought about 3 thousand pieces - mostly Greek, Roman and Egyptian statues. The collection, compiled by Roden, almost twice as much.

Ancient Sculpture from the Collection of Freud survived largely thanks to pravnuchatoy niece of Napoleon Bonaparte, Princess Marie (Marie Bonaparte), which had been a student of the famous psychoanalyst. When, in 1938, Freud was forced to leave Vienna, it was paid Sc. «Redemption» in order to be able to leave the country and bring with him to London, all their belongings and documents.

As the doctor and friend of Freud's Max Shur (Max Schur), collecting was one of his strongest passions, ranks second after the nicotine habit. But Freud himself once said writer Stefan Zweig (Stefan Zweig), that the «read more about archeology than psychology».

Perhaps it is somewhat exaggerated. But certainly is something that he perceived as archaeologists close in spirit to the people. «Psychoanalyst, like the archaeologist, must remove the patient's heart in a layer by layer, to dokopatsya to the deepest and most precious treasure», - he told one of his famous patient, Man-Wolf - Sergei Pankeevu.

Gradually statues filled all available space in the office and at home Freud. Like soldiers on parade, they stood in rows on slender book shelves, in cabinets, on tables, and even invade his tidy desk.

If you expect to see among the exhibits many phallus, satyrs and other sexual characters, you will most likely be disappointed. This collection can be made by any modest connoisseur of classical philology Victorian. Winged Eros IV century BC. e. more like an angel than to an object, calling for the joy in life. And the winged sphinx V century BC. e. seems to be a Freudian to enjoy greater popularity. Because they know that its history is connected with the Oedipus, discerned his riddle.

Rodin's approach to collecting was different. Even in his youth, he did sketches with ashlars in the Louvre, and all of his life he continued to make sketches, and collect photographs of sculptures. His collection of ancient artifacts was a source of inspiration for his own work. In most cases it is limited to fragments - bend lines of the body, garment, gesture. It was the main details of expressiveness, rather than the whole. And sometimes it is fun, creating hybrids of ancient works and their own - for example, put a women's torso in the Ionian Kilikia.

Organizers of the exhibition does not attempt to bring these two collections to a common denominator, which in any case it would be useless. Both collections are presented separately. However, the most beautiful object in the display does not belong to any of them. It is a relief from the Vatican Museums with the image of barefoot rimlyanki.

She was in a dream by archaeologists in the novel the German writer Wilhelm Jensen (Wilhelm Jensen) «Gradiva», so struck Freud, he wrote an entire book about it, comment. Later, during his visit to Rome, he bought the cast of the terrain and put it on the couch in his consulting room. Exhibition at the Paris Rodin Museum, which will last until February 22, gives viewers the opportunity to familiarize themselves with its original.

material produced Catherine Onuchin

Source: bloomberg.com , artinvestment.ru