François-Auguste-René Rodin ( 12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917 ), known as Auguste Rodin ( ; ), was a French sculptor.

Rodin was born in 1840 into a working-class family in Paris, the second child of Marie Cheffer and Jean-Baptiste Rodin, who was a police department clerk.

He worked for two years in the workshop of Antonin Mercié of the École des Beaux-Arts, and was invited to enter the workshop of Auguste Rodin.

She was a sculptor, socialite and cosmopolitan who had studied under Auguste Rodin and whose circle included Isadora Duncan, Pablo Picasso and Aleister Crowley.

At the same time, his encounter with modernism was very stimulating: Rilke became deeply involved in the sculpture of Rodin, and then with the work of Paul Cézanne.

As the title character in L ' après-midi d ' un faune the final tableau ( or scene ), during which he mimed masturbation with the scarf of a nymph, caused a scandal ; he was defended by such artists as Auguste Rodin, Odilon Redon and Marcel Proust.

The design by Rodin is based on a fourteenth century account by Jean Froissart and was intended to evoke public sympathy by emphasizing the pained expressions of the faces of the six men about to be tried.

She was a professional painter, a friend of Auguste Rodin, and a regular exhibitor at the Salon des Indépendants.

As an art critic, he campaigned on behalf of the “ great gods nearest to his heart ”: he sang the praises of Auguste Rodin, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Auguste Renoir, Félix Vallotton, and Pierre Bonnard, and was an early advocate of Vincent Van Gogh, Camille Claudel, Aristide Maillol, and Maurice Utrillo ( cf.

Auguste Rodin became a great admirer of his work, and by September 1893 Antoine Bourdelle joined Rodin as his assistant where he soon became a popular teacher, both there and at his own studio where many future prominent artists attended his classes, so that his influence on sculpture was considerable.

A number of Franck's students, led by Augusta Holmès, commissioned a bronze medallion from Auguste Rodin, a three-quarter bust of Franck, which in 1893 was placed on the side of the tomb.

It was founded in 1949 and comprised the second collection in France of works from Rodin and the second collection of impressionist paintings of France.

Chausson was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, his funeral attended by many leading figures of the arts, including Duparc, Fauré, Albeniz, Redon, Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, Henri de Regnier, Pierre Louÿs, and Claude Debussy, although his friendship with Debussy had ended abruptly five years earlier for reasons unknown.

He was trained in Paris at the Académie Julian, where he came to know Auguste Rodin and was influenced by Rodin's impressionistic light-catching surfaces.

Graham's mother was a bohemian intellectual, art lover, and political activist in the Republican Party, who shared friendships with people as diverse as Auguste Rodin, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein and Eleanor Roosevelt, and worked as a newspaper reporter at a time when journalism was an uncommon profession among women.

Neihardt's romantic poetry was read in Paris by Mona Martinsen, a young sculpture student of Auguste Rodin.

One of the earliest members of his band was Gil Rodin, a saxophonist whose sharp business acumen served him well later as an executive for the Music Corporation of America ( MCA ).

He exhibited work in 1878 in Paris, where he came into contact with Auguste Rodin and Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux.

For a time he acted as Rodin's secretary, also lecturing and writing a long essay on Rodin and his work.

Rodin taught him the value of objective observation, and under this influence Rilke dramatically transformed his poetic style from the subjective and sometimes incantatory language of his earlier work into something quite new in European literature.

The work he hung and displayed in his home included a plaster bust by Rodin, a painting by Gauguin, a drawing by van Gogh, and Cézanne's Three Bathers.

Rodin is represented by over 20 works in the museum collection, making it one of the largest collections of the sculptor's work outside France ; these were gifted to the museum by the sculptor in 1914, as acknowledgement of Britain's support of France in World War I, although the statue of St John the Baptist had been purchased in 1902 by public subscription.

Then there is a section that covers late 19th century and early 20th century sculpture, this includes work by Rodin and other French sculptors such as Dalou who spent several years in Britain where he taught sculpture.

A strong Rodin influence is evident in his early work.

Those who translated best the spirit of the work of Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes ' in their own creations were, in Germany, the painter Ludwig von Hofmann and in France, Auguste Rodin.

The Chapmans ' oeuvre has also referenced work by William Blake, Auguste Rodin and Nicolas Poussin.

His work quickly became popular, even with the likes of Auguste Rodin, and he soon earned enough for him and his wife ( since 1904 ) Ruža Klein to travel to more international exhibitions.

The collection of sculpture and decorative arts is admittedly not quite as rich as this, but includes such works as the Chalice of Abbot Suger of St-Denis and a superb collection of work by Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas.

In 1904 the two went to Paris, where John found work as an artist's model ; in that same year, she began modelling for the sculptor Auguste Rodin, and became his lover.

Fuller's pioneering work attracted the attention, respect, and friendship of many French artists and scientists, including Jules Chéret, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, François-Raoul Larche, Henri-Pierre Roché, Auguste Rodin, Franz von Stuck, Maurice Denis, Thomas Theodor Heine, Koloman Moser, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Marie Curie.

The work has influenced a number of later artists such as Félicien Rops, Auguste Rodin, Louis Aucoc, Fernand Khnopff, and Pablo Picasso.

The company has commissoned work from a some of the world's most prominent choreograhers: The Queen of Spades by Kim Brandstrup ; The Butterfly Effect by Shawn Hounsell ; Between Ashes and Angels by Adam Hougland ; Noces, Cinderella and The Rite of Spring by Stijn Celis ; The Little Prince, Possibly Six and TooT by Didy Veldman ; The Beast and the Beauty by Kader Belarbi ; Four Seasons by Mauro Bigonzetti ; Minus One and Danz by Ohad Naharin ; Rodin / Claudel by Peter Quanz ; and Re – II by Shen Wei.

He was influenced by Rodin, who advised him on occasion about his work.

He started to work for decorators, and there met Rodin with which began there friendship.

It also exhibited the work of Auguste Rodin, whose growing reputation in England owed much to Rothenstein's friendship and missionary zeal.

Like his mentor Caro, Hide's sculptures forsake the plinth, but against Caro's open weightlessness, Hide reclaims mass and the monolith, connecting his work to inspirational sources in Auguste Rodin and Brâncuşi.

The work of thousands of artists has been exhibited in the Carnegie International, including that of Winslow Homer, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Rodin, Willem de Kooning, Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Alberto Giacometti, Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys, Sigmar Polke, and William Kentridge.

The Gates of Hell () is a monumental sculptural group work by French artist Auguste Rodin that depicts a scene from " The Inferno ", the first section of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.

Despite the critics ’ mixed reactions, she became quite popular for her distinct style and inspired many visual artists, such as Antoine Bourdelle, Auguste Rodin, and Abraham Walkowitz, to create works based on her.

He considered studying with Auguste Rodin, but claimed to be disgusted with his style.

Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past.

Sculpturally, Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, deeply pocketed surface in clay.

Rodin remains one of the few sculptors widely known outside the visual arts community.

In 1922 he moved to Paris to study under the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, an associate of Auguste Rodin.

Even though he admired the eminent Rodin he left the Rodin studio after only two months, saying, " Nothing can grow under big trees.

After studying the sculpture of Rodin, Munch may have experimented with plasticine as an aid to design, but he produced little sculpture.

* Rodin, L .; Lindblom, V ; Klang, K .: Gudaträd och västgötska skottkungar-Sveriges bysantiska arv, Göteborg: Tre böcker, 1994.

* The Australian Impressionists, including Frederick McCubbin and Tom Roberts who were prominent members of the Heidelberg School and John Peter Russell a friend of Van Gogh, Rodin, Monet and Matisse as well as Rupert Bunny, Agnes Goodsir and Hugh Ramsay.

The sculptor Auguste Rodin is sometimes called an Impressionist for the way he used roughly modeled surfaces to suggest transient light effects.

The art will come from multiple museums, including the Louvre, the Georges Pompidou Centre, the Musée d ' Orsay, Versailles, the Musée Guimet, the Musée Rodin, and the Musée du quai Branly.

* 1840 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor ( d. 1917 )

* 1917 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor ( b. 1840 )

* Polyphemus is also the subject of a series of sculptures made by the French artist August Rodin about 1888.

In the summer of 1902, Rilke left home and traveled to Paris to write a monograph on the sculptor Auguste Rodin.