Auguste de Niederhäusern, better known as Rodo (2 April 1863 – 21 May 1913) was a

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sculptor and medalist active in Switzerland and

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. Rodo was born in

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, and in 1866 moved with his family to

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. He attended the

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(1881) and the

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(1882) under the direction of

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, then studied at the Académie Julian with

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(1886) and at the

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under

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. For six years he worked in

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's studio. In 1895 he received a commission for the

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monument in the

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, which was finally inaugurated in 1911. He died in 1913 during a visit to

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References

* Claude Lapaire, ''Auguste de Niederhäusern-Rodo (1863–1913). Un sculpteur entre la Suisse et Paris'', Zurich/Lausanne: Institut suisse pour l'étude de l'art / Berne: Editions Benteli, 2001. . * Philip Ward-Jackson, "Auguste de Niederhausern-Rodo, 1863-1913. Un sculpteur entre la Suisse et Paris. Catalogue raisonne by Claude Lapaire", The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 143, No. 1185 (Dec., 2001), p. 770.
Auguste de Niederhausern-Rodo
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rodo Swiss sculptors 1863 births 1913 deaths École des Beaux-Arts alumni 20th-century French sculptors 19th-century French sculptors French male sculptors People from Vevey 19th-century French male artists