Auguste Rodin (1840–1917)
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About the Author
Auguste Rodin, the most celebrated sculptor of the late nineteenth century, was born in Paris. He worked originally as a mason but soon devoted himself to sculpture. His great master was Michelangelo ("he freed me from academicism"). He was a supreme realist as well as a romantic; his first major show more work, The Age of Bronze, seemed so lifelike that he was even accused of having cast it from a living model (there are more than 150 recasts of it). Many of his sculptures are extremely popular and widely reproduced, such as The Kiss, The Thinker, and the haunting Burghers of Calais. One of his innovations was the torso or the fragment as a complete work of art. His main work is the vast Gates of Hell. Many of his works, or recasts of them, are in U.S. collections. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Photo by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1906 (courtesy of the NYPL Digital Gallery; image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Works by Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin: Erotic Sketches Erotische Skizzen (Prestel's Erotic Sketchboo Series) (2006) 14 copies
Auguste Rodin - Aquarelle aus der Sammlung des Musée Rodin, Paris Anlaesslich der Ausstellung Auguste Rodin.… (2004) 3 copies
Rodin and his contemporaries 3 copies
Figures d'Ombres : Les Dessins de Auguste Rodin : Une Production de la Maison Goupil (1996) 2 copies
Sculptures 1 copy
Rodin sculptures, 1886-1917 1 copy
La Puerta del infierno 1 copy
Rodin Zeichnungen 1 copy
Om kunsten 1 copy
Rodin sculptures, 1840-1886 1 copy
野外彫刻の祭典 :… 1 copy
Art: Translated From the French of Paul Gsell By Mrs. Romilly Fedden, With 106 Illustrations in Half-Tone and… (2009) 1 copy
[No title] 1 copy
The Thinker (bronze) 1 copy
Mi testamentp 1 copy
Die Kunst. 1 copy
The Thinker 1 copy
The Gates of Hell (plaster) 1 copy
Burghers of Calais 1 copy
A la Vénus de Milo 1 copy
[No title] 1 copy
The Age of Bronze (bronze) 1 copy
Les sculptures de Rodin 1 copy
Les cathédrales de France 1 copy
Auguste Rodin from the B. Gerald Cantor collection and the B.G. Cantor Art Foundation: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery… (1971) 1 copy
Rodin bronzes 1 copy
Spredte Tanker om Blomster 1 copy
Rozhovory o umení 1 copy
A porta do inferno 1 copy
The Burghers of Calais 1 copy
Mostra Di Auguste Rodin. Accademia Di Francia, Villa Medici, Roma, 26 Maggio-30 Giugno 1967 (1967) 1 copy
Rodin, 1840-1886 1 copy
Rodin: disegni erotici 1 copy
The Kiss (marble) 1 copy
Associated Works
The making of Rodin : Tate Modern : 12 May - 21Nov 2021 — Artist — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Rodin, Auguste
- Legal name
- Rodin, François-Auguste-René
- Other names
- Роден, Огюст
- Birthdate
- 1840-11-12
- Date of death
- 1917-11-17
- Burial location
- Meudon, Île-de-France, Paris, France
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- France (birth)
- Places of residence
- Paris, France
- Education
- Petite École, Paris, France
- Occupations
- sculptor
painter
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