Leonardo da Vinci Edvard Munch and Auguste Rodin

Auguste Rodin Auguste Rodin was born on November 12, 1840 in Paris, France. He was a poor boy with a talent for drawing. He was rejected three times by the official art school of France. But he found work helping to build public monuments for the Belgian government. A trip to Italy in 1875 gave him a look at the artist of the past. He revived the nearly dead art of sculpture in the late nineteen century. The Thinker was originally named the Poet, and was commissioned to act as the door to the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. The first plaster version was created in 1880 followed by the bronze cast in 1902. Rodin died on November 17, 1917.