Quiz: Auguste Rodin - art and life

Answer the following questions.
What year was Auguste Rodin born?

1840

Answer the following questions.
Where was he born? What city?

Paris

Who was he?

A sculptor of 19th-century France, noted for realistic movement in his work.

What's the name of the sculpture?

The Kiss

What is the subject of Rodin's 'Burghers of Calais'?

6 town leaders from medieval France who are sacrificing themselves to save their town

What is impressionist about Rodin's portrayal of the burghers?

The disorganized, disheveled arrangement of the men.

"The Walking Man" represented on the picture is sculptured by Auguste Rodin in 1910.

False

What's the name of the sculpture?

Danaid

Rodin originally titled The Kiss as The Poet.

False

When did Auguste Rodin marry Rose Beuret?

29th January 1917

What's the name of the sculpture?

The Gates of Hell

The Société des Gens des Lettres, a Parisian organization of writers, planned a monument to French novelist ________________ immediately after his death in 1850.

Honoré de Balzac

What year did Auguste Rodin pass away?

1917

What's the material, that Rodin used for "The Gates of Hell" for Musee d'Orsay in Paris?

Plaster

What's the name of the sculpture?

The Thinker

Many of his most notable sculptures were _________ during his lifetime.

criticized

In 1864 Auguste submitted "The Man With the Broken Nose" to the Paris Salon, but it was rejected.

True

What's the name of the sculpture?

Burghers of Calais

Rose, his wife, died two weeks after the wedding. Did Rodin pass away the same year?

Yes

In 1908 Rodin moved to Hotel Biron, that became his new studio. From 1911 onwards he occupied the entire building. Did the hotel transform to the Rodin Museum?

Yes

Answer the following questions.
What year was the Rodin Museum officially opened?

1919

Answer the following questions.
Where is it located? What city?

Paris