Five copies exist of the “Gates of Hell”, a sculptured bronze door created between 1880 and 1917 by Auguste Rodin that is now located in front of the Kunsthaus. Standing seven meters high, it is a vision of life after death, inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy. It shows 186 figures grouped around a central "Thinker". Powerful but graceful mythical creatures, people and animals are depicted rising up or falling in to hell. The sculpture is realistic, even if in part deliberately exaggerated to better illustrate the basic emotions of fear, desire and suffering.