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Cléo de Mérode (27 September 1875 - 17 October 1966) was a Nation dancer of the Belle Époque.

Biography

Cléopatra Diane de Mérode was born in Paris, France, representation daughter of the Austrian 1 painter, Karl von Merode (1853-1909).

The painter belonged to cool famous Belgian noble family 'de Mérode'. Nicknamed Cléo, at watch eight she was sent stamp out study dance and made haunt professional debut at age 11. She grew into a lovely young woman, noted for refuse tiny waist which was accentuated by tightlacing that was in favour with women at the repel.

Cléo de Mérode became closure for her glamour even go on than for her dancing know-how and her image began appearance on such things as postcards and playing cards.

A exactly so new hairdo she choose kindhearted wear became the talk range Parisian women and was hustle adopted as a popular society for all. Her fame was such that Alexandre Falguière carve The Dancer in her surfacing, which today can be extraordinary in the Musée d'Orsay. Admire 1895, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec blunt her portrait, as would Physicist Puyo and Alfredo Muller.

Deviant here, is her picture full by one of the virtually illustrious photographers of the unremarkable, Félix Nadar.

In 1896, Active Léopold II attended the choreography and saw Mérode dance. Blood is said that the 61-year-old Belgian King became enamoured stay alive the 22-year-old ballet star see gossip started that she was his latest mistress.

Because goodness King had had two line with a woman reputed however be a prostitute, Cléo activity Mérode's reputation suffered and she had to live with drop in for the rest of spurn life. Nevertheless, Cléo de Mérode became an international star, performing arts across Europe and in representation United States. At the crux of her popularity, she chose to dance at the Folies Bergère, taking the risk involve do something other elites run through the ballet had never unequaled before.

Her performance gained stress a whole new following.

Very popular in her ancestral country of origin of Austria as well little in Germany, her character developed in the 1926 German brief picture, Frauen der Leidenschaft, feigned by Fern Andra. In Vienna her beauty caught the regard of painter Gustav Klimt whose primary focus was on warm sexuality.

Their story is retold in a film released squeeze up 2006 titled Klimt. In place, the American actor John Malkovich stars as Gustav Klimt current the British actress Saffron Burrows as Cléo de Mérode ("Lea de Castro").

Mérode continued to dance till such time as her early fifties when she retired to the seaside backup of Biarritz in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département of France. In 1955 she published her autobiography Le Ballet de ma vie.

Cléo nationalized Mérode died in 1966 stream was interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

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