Born in November 1840 to a simple Parisian civil servant and his wife, Auguste Rodin received his first artistic training at the age of 14 but began to make his living in 1857 as a plasterer. It was during this time that he made his first sculptures such as the Man with the Broken Nose. He completed the Age of Bronze in 1876 which marked his breakthrough to a wider public. He was asked to create a bronze portal which he called The Gates of Hell and decided to create figures for it individually, many of which have become as famous as the portal itself such as The Kiss and The Thinker. By the mid-1880s he began a second major project The Burghers of Calais, a piece so revolutionary in its concept and realisation that it strengthened his international reputation. Rodin increasingly focussed on drawing and sculpting representations of the female body, including numerous erotic drawings. Shortly before her death Rodin finally married his lifelong companion Rose Beuret and died himself in November 1917. This multilingual edition measures 18cm square and has 216 pages, each with a beautiful colour reproduction on glossy pages, map of museums where the artworks can be seen and a short CV of the sculptor. A wonderful showcase of Rodin's long and productive career. A Könemann publication.
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