On what date was French sculptor Auguste Rodin born?

Auguste Rodin was born on 12 November 1840 in Paris, France.

He was born François-Auguste-René Rodin to Jean-Baptiste Rodin, a police clerk, and Marie Cheffer. His family lived in the Paris district of the Hôtel de Ville, where Rodin spent his childhood before beginning artistic training.

Rodin later became one of the most influential sculptors of the modern era. His expressive surfaces, unfinished-looking forms, and interest in movement helped move sculpture away from the polished academic style dominant in nineteenth-century France.

A common mix-up is to confuse Rodin’s birth year with 1841, the year sometimes used in older secondary references. The standard biographical date is 12 November 1840. Rodin died in 1917, making his career span major changes in European art, from academic sculpture to early modernism.