French master Auguste Rodin - an artist born on 12 November 1840 in Paris, who later became an icon of a new artistic direction called Impressionism. The surface of his sculptures is soft and crafted with pieces of forms, so that a rich play produces pictorial effects of light and shade.

Very often he looks for something unfinished, both in terms of forms as well as body as his final object is many times torso, and occasionally the figures are only so far out-worked from the block that the substantial turns into action. Rodin was committed to the new baroque of his time, but he received the strongest artistic impressions from Michelangelo. He found always new possibilities in his works, mental excitations, like desire, passion and despair to explain the expressionist language of the body and raise of the human aspect.