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Gustav Mahler

1909

Medium

Bronze

Tags

Heads Men Portraits

Dimensions

14 × 9 3/4 × 9 1/2 in., 15.5 lb. (35.6 × 24.8 × 24.1 cm, 7 kg)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998

Classification

Sculpture

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Rights

Public Domain

About Auguste Rodin

1840–1917 • France

François Auguste René Rodin (1840-1917) stands as the founder of modern sculpture, transforming the art form from academic tradition into expressive modernism. Born into a working-class Parisian family, Rodin faced early rejection, failing three times to gain admission to the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts. This setback forced him to work as a craftsman for nearly two decades, though his 1875 trip to Italy proved transformative when encountering Michelangelo's work liberated him from academic constraints.

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