Rodin |
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| » 1840 – 1850 | |
| Auguste Rodin born November 12, 1840 in Paris to Jean-Baptiste Rodin and Marie Cheffer | Claude Monet born 1840; death of Honoré de Balzac 1850 |
| Has first drawing lesson at age ten | Revolution sweeps through Europe; TheCommunist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published in 1848 |
| » 1851 – 1860 | |
| Rodin begins studies at Petite École. Fails entrance exam for École des Beaux-Arts three times | Deaths of Louis Daguerre and J.M.W. Turner 1851 |
| Works commercially in decorative arts, plaster and stone carving | Louis Napoleon declares himself emperor 1852; Second Empire is established |
| Franz Liszt composes Hungarian Rhapsodies; Charles Darwin writes On the Origin of Species | |
| » 1861 – 1870 | |
| Rodin’s beloved sister dies; in mourning, he briefly joins a Catholic order | United States Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Meets Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux; works with Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse | Victor Hugo writes Les Misérables; Dostoyevsky writes Crime and Punishment |
| Meets Rose Beuret, who is to become his lifelong companion and bear his son, Auguste-Eugène | Deaths of Henry Thoreau, Charles Dickens, and Alexandre Dumas |
| Creates Man with the Broken Nose and suffers the first of many rejections by the Paris Salon | Karl Marx’s Das Kapital published 1867; Suez Canal opens 1869 |
| Napoleon III holds “Salon de Refusés” to exhibit works rejected by Salon des Beaux Arts | |
| » 1871 – 1880 | |
| After one year, in 1871 Rodin is discharged from National Guard for nearsightedness | Franco-Prussian War 1870-1872; German Empire proclaimed by Otto von Bismarck 1871 |
| In aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War, works in Belgium with Carrier-Belleuse; returns to Paris 1877 | The word “impressionism” is coined; Whistler paints his mother |
| Travels in Italy, sees Michelangelo’s work in Florence | Jules Verne publishes Around the World in Eighty Days; Tolstoy writes Anna Karenina |
| Creates Saint John the Baptist Preaching 1878 and The Call to Arms 1879 | Sioux defeat Custer at Little Bighorn 1876 |
| Commission for The Gates of Hell 1880 | Joseph Stalin born 1879 |
| » 1881 – 1890 | |
| Rodin meets Camille Claudel 1883 | Freedom of the press established in France; trade unions legalized |
| Commission for The Burghers of Calais 1884; definitive model shown in joint exhibition with Monet at Galerie Georges Petite in Paris 1889 | Pablo Picasso, Coco Chanel, and Adolf Hitler born |
| Shows plaster of The Kiss 1886; French government purchases marble version 1888 | Deaths of Victor Hugo, Vincent van Gogh, and Karl Marx |
| Commission for Monument to Victor Hugo 1889 | Statue of Liberty erected; Eiffel Tower built |
| Rapid expansion of railways in Western United States | |
| » 1891 – 1900 | |
| Receives commission for Balzac monument 1891 | Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams |
| Elected president of sculpture section of Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts | Paul Gauguin settles in Tahiti; Aubrey Beardsley spreads art nouveau style; symbolist movement is active |
| Ends relationship with Camille Claudel | Tate Gallery opens in London |
| Rodin’s marble sculpture is in great demand; he creates marble Hand of God 1898 | Nobel Prize created; Paris Subway opens |
| Rodin Retrospective, Paris World Exposition, 1900 | Alfred Dreyfus arrested for treason 1894; pardoned 1899 |
| » 1901 – 1910 | |
| Visited by Edward Steichen and King Edward VII | Picasso has first exhibition in Paris; paints Les Demoiselles d’Avignon |
| The Thinker installed in Panthéon in Paris | Deaths of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin, J. A. McNeil Whistler, and Paul Cézanne |
| Experiments with enlargements of partial figures such as The Cathedral 1908 and The Hand from the Tomb 1910 | Futurist movement active |
| 1905 French law establishes separation of Church and State | |
| » 1911 – 1920 | |
| Rodin travels despite wartime difficulties; his sculpture is shown throughout Europe | World War I begins 1914; Bolshevik Revolution 1917 |
| Bequeaths his estate to France 1916 | Marcel Duchamp paints Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2, 1912 |
| Marries Rose Beuret January 29, 1917; she dies three weeks later | Wassily Kandinsky creates first nonobjective paintings |
| Rodin dies November 17, 1917 and is laid to rest at Meudon | Albert Einstein formulates general theory of relativity |
| Cubist works exhibited at Salon des Indépendants |
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