Laetitia von Witzleben

Painter and sculptor, student of Alfred Boucher at the Académie Colarossi and of Auguste Rodin, she shared a studio on rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs with Camille Claudel, with whom she formed a close friendship. In 1888, during a stay at the Claudel family home in Villeneuve-sur-Fère, she created pastel portraits of Louise Claudel and her husband, Ferdinand de Massary. Paul Claudel referred to her as the “German friend” who gifted a Bible to Camille Claudel.

Discover this artist as part of the exhibition In the Time of Camille Claudel, Being a Woman Sculptor in Paris