“…A central challenge of this study lies in the question of how the reception history of Rodin's works can be described without falling back into antiquated notions of creative genius and artistic "intentionality" on the one side and radically constructivist methods on the other side. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, a theorist of science studies, has created the concept of "Experimentalsysteme" in order to be able to describe the emergence of new knowledge in the process of knowledge-making. …”