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Artist: Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917)
Nationality: French
Movement:
Media: Sculpture
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Biography:
Auguste Rodin was the most influential and dynamic sculptor of the 19th century. His sculptures were created out of plaster, bronze, and marble, and were actually carved by professional craftsmen with the occasional assistance from Rodin. Early in his career, Rodin was denied enrollment in the art school of his choice, and also received poor reviews from critics who did not recognize his talent as a modeler. In 1877, he became known in Paris with his life size male nude, Age of Bronze. Not long after in 1880, he was offered a commission from the French government to design the doors to a new museum of modern art. Rodin created the Gates of Hell, however the museum was never erected and the gates were never finished. In 1891, he received another commission from the Societe des Gens de Lettres to design a monument to the late author Balzac. Rodin presented the sculpture in 1908, however it was deemed crude and offensive to the society. At the end of his career, Rodin’s work was so highly mass-produced that the public was no longer interested in it, especially after his death in 1917.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: Auguste Rodin: Sculptor
This exhibition of bronzes by Rodin includes some of his best-known works including The Man with the Broken Nose and figures from his greatest ensemble, The Gates of Hell. Many of the works are on loan to the Museum from the collections of t...
Brooklyn Museum of Art: Installation of Rodin Sculptures
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Palazzo delle Prigioni Nuove - Auguste Rodin Foundation: Rodin Plaster & Bronzes
The exhibition, organized by Arte Communications, will exhibit Rodin's most significant works in plaster, in which Rodin best expressed his genius. Rodin modeled his sculptures first in clay, which disintegrates over time, making then a negative m...
Palazzo Isolani - Arte Communications: New Exhibition of Auguste Rodin
The exhibition will host the most significant original plasters, through which Rodin recorded his genius. Rodin modeled his sculptures first in clay, which disintegrates over time, recording important stages of the composition and finished form by...
Church St. Stae, Grand Canal Venice : Auguste Rodin Sculpture Exhibition
The Rodin exhibition will have its premiere in Venice before it is launched into an international context and it will include some of the most significant authentic plaster masterpieces. The plaster was the material in which Rodin recorded ...
University of Kentucky Art Museum: Rodin: In His Own Words
His pioneering work is a critical link between traditional and modern figurative sculpture. By the latter part of his life, Rodin had achieved success on an international scale. His work was in major museum collections in Europe and the United S...
North Carolina Museum of Art: Rodin: Sculpture from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection and additional works
The exhibition features bronze sculptures selected from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection, the world's foremost private collection of Rodin's...
Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens: RODIN’S EXTRAORDINARY MONUMENT TO VICTOR HUGO
Through Rodin’s early marble busts, plaster figures, and preliminary studies, visitors will be able to trace the master’s thought process as he conceived the final monument. Bringing all twenty-two pieces together allows the publ...
Portland Museum of Art: Degas, Rodin, and Moore: Bronzes by European Masters
The exhibition offers a varied sampling of bronze sculpture, mostly small scale and predominantly French and German, that chronicles nearly a century of activity. The earliest bronzes to be included date to the 1880s, such as Degas’s Fourth Posit...
Dayton Art Institute: RODIN: Sculpture from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection
At the height of his career, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was considered to be the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo. His genius lay in his ability to liberate both his subject matter and his style from 19th century artistic conventions through ...
Pierre Gianadda Foundation: Russian Icons, the Saints
Noted for its outstanding exhibitions the Fondation Gianadda, constructed over Roman ruins, since its opening in 1978, has presented works by such distinguished artists as Chagall, Gauguin, van Gogh, Kahlo, Kandinsky, Lautrec, M...
Museum of Glass, International Center for Contemporary Art: Big Idea: The Maquettes of Robert Arneson
A 96-page, full-color catalogue accompanies the exhibition. It includes an essay by Dr. Daniel Rosenfeld, a Rodin specialist and former research fellow at Yale University. Rosenfeld was a curator at the Rhode Island School of Design and served as ...
Henry Moore Institute: Sir Alfred Gilbert: Maquettes for the Sam Wilson Chimneypiece c.1908-14.
The bodies of idealised youthful naked women represent pure and innocent love, winged Eros figures stand for erotic love, a...
Somerset House: New displays: Into the 20th Century
New loans will include a group of over 30 Fauve paintings, including work by Matisse, Derain, Dufy and Vlaminck, as well as a selection of paintings and drawings by Kandinsky. The sculpture will include by Degas, Rodin, Maillol, Matisse, Laurens, ...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Conserving the Past for the Future
Highlights of this show of about 65 works include the museums over-life-size Thinker by Auguste Rodin, permanently damaged by a bomb blast in 1970. On view here for the first time in more than 20 years will be a ...
National Gallery of Art: A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt
Examples by great old masters who created some of their most powerful work after the turn of the century--Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, and Winslow Homer--are shown side by side with works by the younger generation of artists, such as Pablo Picasso,...
Queensland Art Gallery: Belle-Ile: Monet, Russell and Matisse in Brittany
In the late nineteenth century these artists were all drawn to Belle-Île, off the coast of Brittany, France, by their desire to capture on canvas the island’s dramatic, storm-tossed coastline...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Degas to Picasso: Painters, Sculptors and the Camera
Dating from roughly 1885 to 1915, the 364 paintings, drawings, sculptures and photographs on view demonstrate the pervasive and diverse role of photography in the work and working processes of these significant artists. The works...
Dahesh Museum of Art: Facing the Other: Charles Cordier, Ethnographic Sculptor
Although greatly admired by many artists during his lifetime, including Auguste Rodin (1840 -1917), throughout his career Cordier was forced to defend not only his subjects, but also his materials. Setting aside the standard white marble, Cordi...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture
These are among the finest examples of recent figurative sculpture by very important artists from around the world, said Albright-Knox Project Curator Holly E. Hughes. We are pleased to be able to bring this caliber of contemporary sculpture to...
Museum of Fine Art Houston: The Public Portrait: Photographs by Edward Steichen, Richard Avedon, and Irving Penn
American photographers Edward Steichen (1879 -- 1973), Richard Avedon (born 1923), and Irving Penn (born 1917) are among the ...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: Belle-Ile: Monet, Russell and Matisse in Brittany
Today, its population of 4,000 predominantly survive on tourism and fishing. The natural ...
Cairns Regional Gallery: Extracted: Atherton Tablelands Artist Josie Lowerson
My upbringing [in the Mallee region of North Western Victoria] is also a significant factor in my work; the environment was harsh, the climate extreme and life was hard, but there was an incredible amount of diverse creativity around me, she said....
Halle Saint Pierre: Douglas Padilla: dougieland Paris
Set at the foot of Sacre Coeur, the gorgeous white cathedral in Montmarte, the 18th arrondissement, home at the turn of the century to the likes of Toulouse-Latrec, Van Gogh, Utrillo, and Picasso, Halle Saint Pierre, part of the Paris museum syste...
Queensland Art Gallery: Transformations: A Century of Sculpture
The exhibition opens with two works by Auguste Rodin, a great influence on 20th century sculpture. Smaller bronzes from late 19th/early 20th century explore the figure as an allegory and are presented with reference to t...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Color, Myth, and Music:Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Synchromism
Among his many accomplishments, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, along with fellow American painter Morgan Russell, fathered the Synchromism movement. Convinced that color and sound were equivalent phenomena and that one could o...
Ohio Art League: Splice: A Collaboration Between Chris Kaczmarek and Heather Mims
Christopher Thomas Kaczmarek is a Columbus artist who received his BFA in Sculpture from Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Recently he has been creating stage sets and original scores for modern dance performers on the east c...
Gold Coast City Art Gallery: The Centenary Exhibition: Highlights of French and British Art from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection
Queensland Art Gallery Director, Mr Doug Hall said The Centenary Exhibition: Highlights of French and British Art from the Collection is a celebration of the Gallery's proud history of touring the State's col...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture
Kudos to Holly E. Hughes for curating a show so startling, so slyly subversive, it worms its way into your skin before you even realize it. It’s one of the best I’ve ever seen. Here is body as locus of the commercial and the contemplative; as s...
University of New South Wales, School of Anatomy: Call to Artists: Step into Leonardo's Shoes...Draw Human Anatomical Specimens at this 5-day Intensive Workshop
Personalized teaching is provided for all levels in a non-competitive atmosphere with a limit of 18 participants. The ...

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