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    Auguste Rodin and artworks
    Auguste Rodin and artworks
    Auguste Rodin and artworks
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    Auguste Rodin and artworks

    By Rainer Maria Rilke

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    Influenced by the masters of Antiquity, the genius of Michelangelo and Baroque sculpture, particularly of Bernini, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is one of the most renowned artists in history. Though Rodin is considered a founder of modern sculpture, he did not set out to critique past classical traditions. Many of his sculptures were criticised and considered controversial because of their sensuality or hyperrealist qualities. His most original works departed from traditional themes of mythology and allegory, and embraced the human body, celebrating individualism and physicality. This book uncovers the life and career of this highly acclaimed artist by exploring his most famous works of art, such as the Gates of Hell, The Thinker and the infamous The Kiss.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParkstone International
    Release dateNov 14, 2023
    ISBN9781781609736
    Auguste Rodin and artworks
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    Rainer Maria Rilke

    Rainer Maria Rilke was born in Prague in 1875 and traveled throughout Europe for much of his adult life, returning frequently to Paris. There he came under the influence of the sculptor Auguste Rodin and produced much of his finest verse, most notably the two volumes of New Poems as well as the great modernist novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Among his other books of poems are The Book of Images and The Book of Hours. He lived the last years of his life in Switzerland, where he completed his two poetic masterworks, the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus. He died of leukemia in December 1926.

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      Auguste Rodin and artworks - Rainer Maria Rilke

      Biography

      1840:

      Birth of Auguste Rodin in Paris on November 12th.

      1850:

      Rodin starts to draw.

      1854:

      He enters into a special school for drawing and mathematics, called La Petite École, and takes classes from Paul Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran and the painter Jean-Hilaire Belloc.

      1855:

      Rodin discovers sculpture.

      1857:

      He leaves La Petite École and attempts to enter into the School of Fine Arts, but is rejected three times.

      1862:

      Death of his sister Maria. Grief stricken by her death, Rodin goes to the Très-Saint-Sacrement, a Catholic Order, where he stays until 1863.

      1864:

      Beginning of the collaboration with Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse.

      1872:

      End of his collaboration with Carrier-Belleuse.

      1873:

      He enters into a contract with Belgian sculptor Antoine-Joseph van Rasbourgh.

      1875:

      Goes to Italy where he sees the works of Michelangelo.

      1877:

      He exhibits The Age of Bronze in Brussels and then in Paris at the French artists’ Salon. Rodin is accused by critics of having cast a mould from a live model.

      1880:

      The state buys The Age of Bronze and asks Rodin to design a door for the future Museum of Decorative Arts. He will work on the project for the rest of his life, although the museum was never built.

      1881:

      He learns engraving with Alphonse Legros in London.

      1883:

      He meets nineteen-year-old Camille Claudel.

      1885:

      The Municipal Court of Calais commissions a commemorative monument to Eustache de Saint Pierre, which will become the Monument to the Burghers of Calais, inaugurated in Rodin’s presence in 1895.

      1887:

      He is named a knight in the Legion of Honour.

      1888:

      The state commissions The Kiss, in marble, for the Universal Exposition of 1889.

      1889:

      He is a founding member of the National Society of Fine Arts.

      1890:

      The project Monument to Victor Hugo (Victor Hugo seated) for the Pantheon is refused.

      1891:

      A new model for the Monument to Victor Hugo (Victor Hugo standing) is designed and the Society of Men of Letters commissions a Monument to Balzac.

      1898:

      Splits with Camille Claudel, then aged 34. The Society of Men of Letters refuses the Monument to Balzac in plaster.

      1899:

      First expositions in Brussels, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and The Hague.

      1902:

      Rodin meets the poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), who will be his secretary from September 1905 until May 1906.

      1904:

      Rodin meets the Duchess of Choiseul with whom he splits with in 1912. First exhibition of The Thinker (plaster/large model) at the International Society of London and then at the Paris Salon (bronze). He has an affair with Gwendolen Mary John. She becomes his mistress and serves as his model for The Whistler Muse.

      1905:

      Rodin is nominated a

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