short biography

Auguste Rodin (born 1840 in Paris, died 1917 in Meudon) is considered the founder of modern sculpture, which represents the human body and its expression. Famous works are "The Thinker", "The Kiss", "Honoré de Balzac", "The Gates of Hell". From 1883 to 1893 he had a passionate relationship with the sculptress Camille Claudel.

Realism, impressionism, sculpture, drawings, prints

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collection/s

ACKLAND ART MUSEUM Chapel Hill Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton Belvedere, Wien Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham/Alabama Brooklyn Museum Cantor Arts Center, Stanford Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, Washington DIA Detroit Institute of Arts Des Moines Art Center ° EKEBERGPARKEN Oslo Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco - Legion of Honor / De Young Fleming Museum, Burlington Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny Galleria d´Arte Moderna, Venice Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin Haifa Museum of Art Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Henry Moore Institute Leeds High Museum of Art, Atlanta ° Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe Indianapolis Museum of Art Johannesburg Art Gallery . Joslyn Art Museum KMSKA Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerpen Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Kreeger Museum, Washington Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Kunsthalle Bielefeld Kunsthalle Mannheim Kunsthalle zu Kiel Kunstmuseum Basel / Museum für Gegenwartskunst Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz ° Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz / Museum Gunzenhauser LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art Leeds Art Gallery MACCSI - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Sofía Imber, Caracas MAMCS - Musée d´Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg ° MASP - Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge / MA ° MNBA - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York Manchester Art Gallery Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Middelheim Museum, Antwerp Milwaukee Art Museum Musee des Beaux Arts, Calais Museen Heilbronn - Museum im Deutschhof / Kunsthalle Vogelmann Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo, Buenos Aires Museo Soumaya, Mexico City Museu Nacional de Belas Artes Rio de Janeiro (temporarily closed) Museum Folkwang, Essen Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau Museum of Fine Arts Budapest Museum of Fine Arts Ghent Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg / Florida Museum of New Zealand - Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington Museums Vledder Museumsinsel Berlin Musée Bourdelle, Paris Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne ° Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris Musée Rodin Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy Musée des Beaux-Arts, Besancon Musée des Beaux-Arts, Cambrai Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon Musée des Beaux-Arts, Marseille Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans Musée d´Art de Joliette Musée d´Orsay, Paris Nasher Museum of Art, Durham Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas National Art Gallery, Sofia ° National Gallery Prague National Gallery of Art, Washington ° Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City New Art Gallery Walsall Newcastle Region Art Gallery Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen Palm Springs Art Museum Phoenix Art Museum Pinault Collection - Bourse de Commerce, Paris Punta della Dogana, Venice Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow QUT Art Museum, Brisbane Sammlung Oskar Reinhart Am Römerholz, Winterthur Santa Barbara Museum of Art Sculpture International Rotterdam Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl ° Smart Museum, Chicago Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton Smithsonian Institution, Washington Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame Speed Art Museum, Louisville Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Städel Museum, Frankfurt Tate Collection Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art Tel Aviv Museum of Art The Baltimore Museum of Art ° The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (closed) University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
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  • 13. Dec 16. May 2021
    Rodin / Arp Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel