The Thinker original cast at the Musée Rodin in Paris.

The Thinker (French: Le Penseur) is a bronze and marble sculpture by Auguste Rodin held in the Musée Rodin in Paris. It depicts a man in sober meditation battling with a powerful internal struggle. It is often used to represent philosophy. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 450 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (2128 × 2832 pixel, file size: 651 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Noun The Thinker... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 450 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (2128 × 2832 pixel, file size: 651 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Noun The Thinker... The Musée Rodin in Paris, France, is a museum that was opened in 1919 in the Hôtel Biron and surrounding grounds. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... Auguste Rodin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The Musée Rodin in Paris, France, is a museum that was opened in 1919 in the Hôtel Biron and surrounding grounds. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... For other senses of this word, see Meditation (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Philosophy (disambiguation). ...

Sculpture

Originally named The Poet, the piece was part of a commission by the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris to create a monumental portal to act as the door of the museum. Rodin based his theme on The Divine Comedy of Dante and entitled the portal The Gates of Hell. Each of the statues in the piece represented one of the main characters in the epic poem. The Thinker was originally meant to depict Dante in front of the Gates of Hell, pondering his great poem. (In the final sculpture, a miniature of the statue sits atop the gates, pondering the hellish fate of those beneath him.) The sculpture is nude, as Rodin wanted a heroic figure in the tradition of Michelangelo, to represent intellect as well as poetry. Musée des Arts Décoratifs is a museum at 107 rue de Rivoli in Paris, France in the Pavillon de Marsan of the Louvre. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... Dante shown holding a copy of the Divine Comedy, next to the entrance to Hell, the seven terraces of Mount Purgatory and the city of Florence, with the spheres of Heaven above, in Michelinos fresco. ... Dante redirects here. ... The Gates of Hell, Musée Rodin. ... The epic is a broadly defined genre of narrative poetry, characterized by great length, multiple settings, large numbers of characters, or long span of time involved. ... Dante redirects here. ... This article is about the theological or philosophical afterlife. ... For other uses, see Hero (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Michelangelo (disambiguation). ... Intelligence is a general mental capability that involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn. ... This article is about the art form. ...

The Thinker in front of Philosophy Hall at Columbia University

Rodin made a first small plaster version around 1880. The first large-scale bronze cast was finished in 1902, but not presented to the public until 1904. It became the property of the city of Paris – thanks to a subscription organized by Rodin admirers – and was put in front of the Panthéon in 1906. In 1922, it was moved to the Hôtel Biron, which was transformed into a Rodin Museum. Rodins The Thinker with Philosophy Hall in the background Philosophy Hall is the home of the English, Philosophy, and several language departments at Columbia University in New York City. ... Alma Mater Columbia University is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. ... The Panthéon The Panthéon is a building in the Latin Quarter in Paris, France. ... View of Hôtel Biron. ... The Musée Rodin in Paris, France, is a museum that was opened in 1919 in the Hôtel Biron and surrounding grounds. ...

More than any other Rodin sculpture, The Thinker moved into the popular imagination as an immediately recognizable icon of intellectual activity; consequently, it has been subject to endless satirical use. This began in Rodin's lifetime.

Not all sculptures reminiscent of The Thinker are inspired by Rodin's work. For example, Hugo Rheinhold created his "philosophizing ape" (a cast of which Armand Hammer presented to Lenin in 1922), a small sculpture of a chimpanzee in Thinker pose, meditating on a human skull, in 1892, more than ten years before the piece became accessible to the public. Armand Hammer Armand Hammer (May 21, 1898 – December 10, 1990) was an American industrialist and art collector. ... Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ( Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ле́нин  listen?), original surname Ulyanov (Улья́нов) ( April 22 (April 10 ( O.S.)), 1870 – January 21, 1924), was a Russian revolutionary, the leader of the Bolshevik party, the first Premier of the Soviet Union, and the founder of the ideology of Leninism. ... Type species Simia troglodytes Blumenbach, 1775 distribution of Species Pan troglodytes Pan paniscus Chimpanzee, often shortened to chimp, is the common name for the two extant species of apes in the genus Pan. ...

Until September 2006, the original cast was on display at Sakip Sabancı Museum in Istanbul, Turkey. Prior to that, the original cast was displayed in Hartford, Connecticut, at the Wadsworth Athenaeum, in March and April 2006. In early 2007, it was returned to Paris.^{[citation needed]} Istanbul (Turkish: , Greek: , historically Byzantium and later Constantinople; see other names) is Turkeys most populous city, and its cultural and financial center. ... Hartford redirects here. ... Official language(s) none (de facto English) Capital Hartford Largest city Bridgeport[2] Largest metro area Hartford Metro Area[3] Area  Ranked 48th in the US  - Total 5,543[4] sq mi (14,356 km²)  - Width 70 miles (113 km)  - Length 110 miles (177 km)  - % water 12. ... The Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest public art museum in the United States and largest in the state of Connecticut. ... This article is about the capital of France. ...

Further casts

Over twenty casts of the sculpture are in museums around the world. Some of these copies are enlarged versions of the original work, and some are sculptures of different scales. This article is about the manufacturing process. ...

Monumental casts

Asia

The Thinker in front of the Kyoto National Museum

• Indonesia
  • Canisius College
• Israel
  • Tel Aviv in the RAD Data Communications entrance lobby
• Japan
  • Kyoto National Museum

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Europe

• Belgium
  • Laeken cemetery, near Brussels, Belgium
• Denmark
  • Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen
• France
  • Musée Rodin Paris (the original sculpture)
  • Saint Paul De Vence
• Netherlands
  • Singer Laren, Laren (badly damaged by thieves in 2007)
• Norway
  • National Gallery of Norway in Oslo
• Turkey
  • Sakıp Sabancı Museum in Istanbul
• United Kingdom
  • Cambridge University (Jimmy Tide House) Cambridge
• The Vatican
  • The Vatican Museums' Collection of Modern Religious Art

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North America

The Thinker in the rear of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.

• Canada
  • MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario^[1]
• Mexico
  • Museo Soumaya, Mexico City
• United States
  • Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
  • Cleveland Museum of Art (badly damaged by vandalism in 1970, displayed in an unrepaired state)
  • Columbia University, in New York City (outdoors in front of Philosophy Hall on campus)
  • Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
  • Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri
  • The University of Louisville; Louisville, Kentucky
  • The Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • The Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, Washington ^[2]
  • The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
  • Stanford University, Stanford, California
  • The Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California (cast #11^[3] sometimes seen during the Tournament of Roses Parade)
  • The Hillstrom Museum of Art at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. April 1 - April 22, 2008
  • The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.^[4]

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Oceania

• Australia
  • The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

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South America

• Argentina
  • Buenos Aires in front of the Parliament Building^[5]

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References

External links

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Le Penseur

• The Thinker project, Munich. Discussion of the history of the many casts of this artwork.