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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Aliases: Auguste-René-François Rodin; François Auguste René Rodin; François-Auguste-René Rodin

Professions: Sculptor; Painter; Etcher

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  • Claude Monet (1840-1926)

Auguste Rodin Biography

(b Paris, 12 Nov 1840; d Meudon, 18 Nov 1917). French sculptor and draughtsman. He is the only sculptor of the modern age regarded in his lifetime and afterwards to be on a par with Michelangelo. Both made images with widespread popular appeal, and both stressed the materiality of sculpture. Rodin’s most famous works—the Age of Bronze , The Thinker , The Kiss , the Burghers of Calais and Honoré de Balzac —are frequently reproduced outside a fine-art context to represent modern attitudes that require poses and encounters freed from allegory, idealization and propriety. The Rodin mythology embraces the artist’s faith in the spiritual dignity of individuals that direct scrutiny can reveal; this is at its most blatant in Rodin’s portraits of French heroes such as Balzac and Victor Hugo, presented naked and vulnerable. His numerous biographers dwell on his rise from humble origins and his struggle to be accepted by the juries arbitrating entry to the Salon and to be awarded government commissions. Also part of the myth are the fidelity of Rose Beuret, his companion of 50 years; his brazen sexuality; and the unprecedented international fame Rodin acquired after 1900.

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