Auguste Rodin Filmed Sculpting in his Studio (1915)

This is unique film of the father of modern sculpture, Auguste Rodin (18401917), working in his studio in Paris in 1915. What is particularly interesting in the various pieces of footage is seeing close up the artist s process with marble. There are four segments of film: 1 The artist walking up and down the steps of a monumental columned building, and inspecting the structure 2 Rodin posing tophatted in a garden 3 The sculptor coming out of the then derelict C18 Hôtel Biron, which the ar