Auguste Rodin conquered the German art scene through a series of exhibitions in Dresden, Munich, Berlin, Leipzig, Weimar and Dusseldorf. Rodin's art was first purchased by a German museum in 1894. But it wasn't his art alone that fascinated scholars and the public alike. The unique way of presenting the sculptures in combination with Rodin's sketches and fragments provided insight into the artist's process of creation, letting visitors of the exhibition virtually step into the master's atelier. German text.