Carl Milles

Background

Carl Milles was born Carl Emil Wilhelm Anderson near Uppsala, Sweden on June 23, 1875.

Education

He studied at the Stockholm Technical School and at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris (1897 - 1904).

Career

He had his first one-man exhibition in Malmö, Sweden, in 1914, and he first exhibited outside Sweden in 1927 at London's Tate Gallery. In 1928 Milles visited the United States, and in 1931 he began to teach at Cranbrook Academy, Cranbrook, Mich. Milles' sculpture derives from Rodin's; his work consists mainly of large linear human figures. Many of his commissions for heroic-sized monuments were executed for cities in Sweden.

His best-known works in the United States are the Peace Monument in Saint Paul, Minn. , The Fountain of the Meeting of the Waters in St. Louis, Mo. , and statues for Rockefeller Center in New York City. His last work was for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, on the theme of The Fountain of the Muses. Toward the end of his life Milles returned to Sweden.

Achievements

• Carl Milles sculpted the Poseidon statue in Gothenburg, the Gustaf Vasa statue at the Nordic Museum, the Orpheus group outside the Stockholm Concert Hall and the Folke Filbyter sculpture in Linköping.

Connections

Father:

Emil "Mille" Andersson

Mother:

Walborg Tisell

Sister:

Ruth Milles

Wife:

Olga Milles

Brother:

Evert Milles

References

• The Home And Art Of Carl Milles
• Carl Milles: Sculpture and drawings from Millesgarden, Stockholm