Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, and deeply pocketed surface in clay. He is known for such sculptures as The Thinker, Monument to Balzac, The Kiss, The Burghers of Calais, and The Gates of Hell.
Experience one of the world’s greatest collections of work by Auguste Rodin in an elegant Beaux-Arts–style building and garden on Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Discover how sculptor Auguste Rodin explored the expressive power of hands to create his masterpieces.
Le musée Rodin est un musée assurant depuis 1919 la conservation et la diffusion de l’œuvre d’Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). À travers ses deux sites, l'hôtel Biron de la rue de Varenne dans le 7e arrondissement à Paris et la villa des Brillants à Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine).
Auguste Rodin achieved the reputation of the father of modern sculpture with his iconic and powerful bronze portraits.
Aside from Michelangelo, there’s no artist as synonymous with sculpture as Auguste Rodin (1840–1917). He created an art-historical icon— The Thinker —that rivals Leonardo’s Mona Lisa for...
Auguste Rodin was born in 1840, the second child and only son of Jean-Baptiste Rodin and Marie Cheffer, first-generation Parisians of modest means. Nothing in his family background or situation suggested that he might become an artist.
François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917), known as Auguste Rodin (/oʊˈɡuːst roʊˈdæ̃/; French: [oɡyst ʁɔdɛ̃]), was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past.
Auguste Rodin is renowned for breathing life into clay, creating naturalistic, often vigorously modelled sculptures that convey intense human emotions: love, ecstasy, agony or grief.