Education
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, and the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, and the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
Fritz von Miller, born in Munich, was one of the 14 children of Ferdinand von Miller, creator of the Bavaria statue in the centre of Munich. He taught from 1868 to 1912 at the Königliche Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich. He was a prolific maker of small objets d"art and artistic domestic items, including pens and electric light fittings.
In 1875 Fritz von Miller married Rosina Theresia Anna Sedlmayr, a descendant of the brewer Gabriel Sedlmayr.
Thanks to this marriage he inherited a fortune in 1891. In 1894 he bought and renovated the Kainzenhof in Bad Wiessee.
In 1904 he was involved in the establishment of the church-building society in Bad Wiessee. Fritz was also much involved with Saint Benno"s Church in Neuhausen, founded in 1850 by his father.
The Neo-Romanesque church includes an elaborate chapel in honour of the Miller family, for which Fritz"s son Rupert sculpted a bust of him.
Fritz died in Munich. The Fritz-von-Miller-Weg in Bad Wiessee is named after him, and another von Miller family memorial chapel, also in a Neo-Romanesque style, is located there. He is buried in the family grave in the Winthir Cemetery in the Munich suburb of Neuhausen.