TIMELINE: RODIN AND THE WORLD | Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation

TIMELINE: RODIN AND THE WORLD

Rodin

The World

» 1840 - 1850

	•	Auguste Rodin born November 12, 1840 in Paris to Jean-Baptiste Rodin and Marie Cheffer			•	Claude Monet born 1840; death of Honoré de Balzac 1850
	•	Has first drawing lesson at age ten			•	Revolution sweeps through Europe; The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published in 1848

» 1851 - 1860

	•	Rodin begins studies at Petite École. Fails entrance exam for École des Beaux-Arts three times			•	Deaths of Louis Daguerre and J.M.W. Turner 1851
	•	Works commercially in decorative arts, plaster and stone carving			•	Louis Napoleon declares himself emperor 1852; Second Empire is established
					•	Franz Liszt composes Hungarian Rhapsodies; Charles Darwin writes On the Origin of Species

» 1861 - 1870

	•	Rodin's beloved sister, Maria, dies; while mourning he briefly joins a Catholic order			•	United States Civil War; Franco-Prussian War
	•	Meets Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux; works with Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse			•	Victor Hugo writes Les Misérables; Dostoyevsky writes Crime and Punishment
	•	Meets Rose Beuret, who is to become his lifelong companion and who bears his son, Auguste-Eugène			•	Deaths of Henry Thoreau, Charles Dickens, and Alexandre Dumas
	•	Creates Man with the Broken Nose and suffers the first of many rejections by the Paris Salon			•	Karl Marx's Das Kapital published 1867; Suez Canal opens 1869
					•	Napoleon III holds "Salon de Refusés" to exhibit works rejected by Academy of Fine Arts

» 1871 - 1880

	•	After one year, in 1871 Rodin is discharged from National Guard for nearsightedness			•	German Empire proclaimed by Otto von Bismarck 1871
	•	In aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War, works in Belgium with Carrier-Belleuse; returns to Paris 1877			•	The word "impressionism" is coined; Whistler paints portrait of his mother
	•	Travels in Italy, sees Michelangelo's work in Florence			•	Jules Verne publishes Around the World in Eighty Days; Tolstoy writes Anna Karenina
	•	Creates Saint John the Baptist Preaching 1878 and The Call to Arms 1879			•	Sioux defeat Custer at Little Bighorn 1876
	•	Commission for The Gates of Hell 1880			•	Joseph Stalin born 1879

» 1881 - 1890

	•	Rodin meets Camille Claudel 1883			•	Freedom of the press established in France; trade unions legalized
	•	Commission for The Burghers of Calais 1884; definitive model shown in joint exhibition with Monet at Galerie Georges Petite in Paris 1889			•	Pablo Picasso, Coco Chanel, and Adolf Hitler born
	•	Shows plaster of The Kiss 1886; French government purchases marble version 1888			•	Deaths of Victor Hugo, Vincent van Gogh, and Karl Marx
	•	Commission for Monument to Victor Hugo 1889			•	Statue of Liberty erected; Eiffel Tower built
					•	Rapid expansion of railways in Western United States

» 1891 - 1900

	•	Receives commission for Balzac monument 1891			•	Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams
	•	Elected president of sculpture section of Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts			•	Paul Gauguin settles in Tahiti; Aubrey Beardsley spreads art nouveau style; symbolist movement is active
	•	Ends relationship with Camille Claudel			•	Tate Gallery opens in London
	•	Rodin's marble sculpture is in great demand; he creates The Hand of God in marble, 1898			•	Nobel Prize created; Paris Subway opens
	•	Retrospective, Paris World Exposition, 1900			•	Alfred Dreyfus arrested for treason 1894; pardoned 1899

» 1901 - 1910

	•	Visited by Edward Steichen and King Edward VII			•	Picasso has first exhibition in Paris; paints Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
	•	The Thinker installed in Panthéon in Paris			•	Deaths of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin, J. A. McNeil Whistler, and Paul Cézanne
	•	Experiments with enlargements of partial figures such as The Cathedral, 1908, and The Hand from the Tomb, 1910			•	Futurist movement active
					•	1905 French law establishes separation of Church and State

» 1911 - 1920

	•	Rodin travels despite wartime difficulties; his sculpture is shown throughout Europe			•	World War I begins 1914; Bolshevik Revolution 1917
	•	Bequeaths his estate to France 1916			•	Marcel Duchamp paints Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2, 1912
	•	Marries Rose Beuret January 29, 1917; she dies three weeks later			•	Wassily Kandinsky creates first nonobjective paintings
	•	Rodin dies November 17, 1917 and is laid to rest at Meudon			•	Albert Einstein formulates general theory of relativity
					•	Cubist works exhibited at Salon des Indépendants