Rodo

Auguste de Niederhäusern, better known as Rodo (2 April 1863 – 21 May 1913) was a sculptor and medalist active in Switzerland and France.

For the Uruguayan intellectual, see José Enrique Rodó.
Bust of Paul Verlaine, by Auguste de Niederhausern-Rodo.

Rodo was born in Vevey, and in 1866 moved with his family to Geneva. He attended the École des Arts industriels (1881) and the École des Beaux-Arts (1882) under the direction of Barthélemy Menn, then studied at the Académie Julian with Henri Chapu (1886) and again at the École des Beaux-Arts under Alexandre Falguière. For six years he worked in Auguste Rodin's studio.

In 1895 he received a commission for the Paul Verlaine monument in the Jardin du Luxembourg, which was finally inaugurated in 1911. He died in 1913 during a visit to Munich.

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. ISBN 3-7165-1243-5 .
  • 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
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