Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Singer Laren Restores Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker After It was Damaged When Stolen

January 30, 2011 by  
Filed under Featured, Sculpture

LAREN.- Singer Laren has restored The Thinker by Auguste Rodin. The work was carried out by the University of Amsterdam’s Department of Conservation and Restoration in the Ateliergebouw (the Rijksmuseum’s new conservation studio) in the Dutch capital. The restoration aimed to recover the external appearance of the seriously damaged sculpture. Rodin’s The Thinker, along with six other bronze statues, was stolen from the sculpture garden of Singer Laren on 17 January 2007. It was recovered two days later much the [...]