Vedic Horoscope for Rodin, Auguste

French artist, one of the world's master sculptors whose work influenced countless of other artists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. His magnificent pieces included "The Kiss," 1886, "The Thinker," 1888 and "The Burghers of Calais" in 1895. Originally trained at the Petite Ecole, a school for training artisans, Rodin was refused admission to the more prestigious and established Ecole des Beaux-Arts three times. Rodin used his status as an outsider from the French art establishment to develop his own style of realism and naturalism revolutionizing French sculpture in the process. By the turn of the century, Rodin was the most celebrated sculptor in France with notoriety in Brussels, London, and Munich. In 1890, he received the Cross of the Legion of Honor. On 15 December 1916, the National Assembly voted to establish the Rodin Museum in the Hotel Biron to house his bronzes, marbles, paintings, drawings and plasters.Birth certificate in Didier Geslain archive, 'sculpteurs' pdf file, p. 145.