To commemorate French sculptor Auguste Rodin’s 172nd birthday, Google has created a special doodle of The Thinker, his best known work.

So Rodin's figures fly, they fall, they stride or sit; they are with or without arms, legs a head — or they are complete, like "The Thinker." This article was originally written in German.

Every muscle in his body is tense as he appears lost in thought. Created by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) between 1880 and 1882, "The Thinker" is a sculpture known all over the world.

August Rodin's The Thinker is on display at the Winnipeg Art Gallery's Skylight Gallery. (CBC) It's one of the most famous statues in the world.

But Rodin's "Thinker" was an unknown, nameless man with too-big feet and hands and a crooked nose, whose body looks peculiarly dented, yet muscular and sinewy. Jean Baud, a French prizefighter and ...

The Thinker, which Rodin began work on in 1880, was the sculptor's first work to be exhibited in a public place. The statue was inaugurated in front of Paris's Pantheon in 1906, the museum says.

The bronze sculpture, on loan for a year from the Rodin Museum in Paris, is one of the original castings made by Auguste Rodin, sometime between 1881 and 1882.

A posthumous cast of The Thinker by Auguste Rodin is to be auctioned on 30 June at Christie’s Paris with an estimated sale price of nine to 14 million euros .It was exhibited in New York on ...