The Age of Bronze

The sculpture The Age of Bronze ( L' Âge d' airain French = Bronze Age ) of 1875/1876 was the first life-size figure, with Auguste Rodin went public. The sculptor did without meaning -creating attributes, creating a figure that allowed multiple subjective interpretations about her attitude and her expression. They often considered the beginning of modern sculpture.

On the one hand hidden in the plastic a wounded warrior who rests on a (imaginary) Speer, and puts the right hand on a wound on his head, on the other hand, Rodin, inspired by the theories of Jean -Jacques Rousseau was trying to represent the awakening of humanity. Neither the one nor the other motif dominate, so that the final interpretation is left to the viewer. Alternative German title of the sculpture was " The man who awakens in nature ," or " The man of the first times".

Locations (selection)

  • Musée Rodin, Paris
  • Musée d' Orsay, Paris (2006 loaned to the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)
  • Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
  • Castle Museum in Weimar Stadtschloss
  • National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  • Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
  • Private collection in Europe; Impression of the foundry Rudier, Paris from 1918, 2011 for € 4.1 million at Christie's, Paris
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