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Auguste Rodin

1840 - 1917

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François Auguste René Rodin (; French: [fʁɑ̃swa oɡyst ʁəne ʁɔdɛ̃]; 12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917) was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Auguste Rodin is the most popular sculptor, the 69th most popular biography from France (down from 50th in 2019) and the most popular French Sculptor.

Auguste Rodin is most famous for his sculptures. He was a French sculptor who was most famous for his sculptures of the human form.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Auguste Rodin ranks 1 out of 258. After him are Phidias, Praxiteles, Camille Claudel, Benvenuto Cellini, Polykleitos, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Antonio Canova, Lysippos, Alberto Giacometti, Constantin Brâncuși, and Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Auguste Rodin ranks 5. Before him are Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Claude Monet, Thomas Hardy, and Émile Zola. After him are Carlota of Mexico, Victoria, Princess Royal, Murad V, Alphonse Daudet, Odilon Redon, Edward Drinker Cope, and Ernst Abbe. Among people deceased in 1917, Auguste Rodin ranks 3. Before him are Émile Durkheim, and Octave Mirbeau. After him are Mata Hari, Edgar Degas, L. L. Zamenhof, Liliʻuokalani, Eduard Buchner, Adolf von Baeyer, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Emil von Behring, and Emil Theodor Kocher.

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In France

Among people born in France, Auguste Rodin ranks 69 out of 6,770. Before him are Gustave Eiffel (1832), Cardinal Richelieu (1585), Maurice Ravel (1875), Romain Rolland (1866), Charles Perrault (1628), and Hector Berlioz (1803). After him are Georges Bizet (1838), Claude Debussy (1862), Charles XIV John of Sweden (1763), Francis I of France (1494), Pierre de Coubertin (1863), and Charles X of France (1757).

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Among SCULPTORS In France

Among sculptors born in France, Auguste Rodin ranks 1. After him are Camille Claudel (1864), Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834), Louise Bourgeois (1911), Giambologna (1529), Marie Tussaud (1761), Rosa Bonheur (1822), Antoine Bourdelle (1861), Paul Landowski (1875), Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741), François Rude (1784), and Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716).

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