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Ernst Haeckel and Isadora
Duncan in front of the Festspielhaus
in Bayreuth,
Germany, 1904 |
This photo was never before published. According to book"
THE ARYAN CHRIST: THE SECRET
LIFE OF CARL JUNG" this photo was taken on the first day of their meeting. Just a few hours later, they sat
in the Wagner family's private
box and viewed a performance
of Parsifal.
Here how Isadora
recalls about Haeckel and their meeting:
When I was in London, I had read the English translations of the works
of Ernst Haeckel in the British Museum. I was greatly impressed by his
lucid and clear expression of the different phenomena of the Universe. I
wrote him a letter expressing my gratitude for the impression his books
had made on me. There must have been something in this letter which
arrested his attention, for afterwards, when I danced in Berlin, he
replied to it.
At that time Ernst Haeckel was banished by the Kaiser, and could not
come to Berlin, on account of his free speaking, but our correspondence
had continued and when I was in Bayreuth I wrote and asked him to visit
me and attend the Festspiel.