SCULPTOR

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Auguste Rodin has received more than 3,163,720 page views. His biography is available in 93 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 90 in 2019). Auguste Rodin is the most popular sculptor, the 50th most popular biography from France (down from 46th 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, Myron, Praxiteles, Benvenuto Cellini, Polykleitos, Camille Claudel, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Alberto Giacometti, Lysippos, Antonio Canova, and Bertel Thorvaldsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1840, Auguste Rodin ranks 4. Before him are Claude Monet, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Émile Zola. After him are Crazy Horse, Murad V, Victoria, Princess Royal, Alphonse Daudet, Odilon Redon, Edward Drinker Cope, Carl Menger, and Ernst Abbe. Among people deceased in 1917, Auguste Rodin ranks 3. Before him are Émile Durkheim, and Octave Mirbeau. After him are Edgar Degas, L. L. Zamenhof, Mata Hari, Eduard Buchner, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Emil von Behring, Adolf von Baeyer, Edward Burnett Tylor, and Emil Theodor Kocher.

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In France

Among people born in France, Auguste Rodin ranks 50 out of 6,770. Before him are Eugène Delacroix (1798), Louis XIII of France (1601), Philip IV of France (1268), Édouard Manet (1832), Marcel Proust (1871), and Coco Chanel (1883). After him are Madame de Pompadour (1721), Henri Becquerel (1852), Georges Bizet (1838), André-Marie Ampère (1775), Romain Rolland (1866), and Gustave Eiffel (1832).

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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), Giambologna (1529), Marie Tussaud (1761), Paul Landowski (1875), Rosa Bonheur (1822), Antoine Bourdelle (1861), Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741), Louise Bourgeois (1911), François Rude (1784), and Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716).

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