Auguste Rodin

Rodin, Auguste (1840–1917), French sculptor. He rose to fame in the late 1870s and in 1880 began the never-completed Gate of Hell, the source of such well-known pieces as The Thinker (1880) and The Kiss (1886). His works, in stone or bronze, were characterized by energy and emotional intensity, as in The Burghers of Calais (1884–94).