Background
Holm, Victor Sophus Joachim was born on December 6, 1876 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Son of Wilhelm J. and Emma Emily (Buck) Holm.
Holm, Victor Sophus Joachim was born on December 6, 1876 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Son of Wilhelm J. and Emma Emily (Buck) Holm.
Came to America, 1890. Pupil of Lorado Taft, Chicago. The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, 1894-1898.
Student Art Students’ League, New New York
Instructor in sculpture and lecturer on history of art, Saint Louis School of Fine Arts (Washington University), since 1909. Principal works: Missouri State Monument, at Vicksburg, Mississippi. (in Saint Louis) Halsey C. Ives Memorial, in City Art Museum, Barnes Memorial, Barnes Hospital, The Crucifixion and the Papal Trophy, Saint Pious Church, Washington University War Memorial, Musicians’ Memorial Fountain, Forest Park, Emile Zola Memorial, Doctor Beaumont Memorial, Governor Thomas Carlin Monument, Carrollton, Illinois, Luman Parker Monument, Rollo, Missouri, Nelson Memorial Fountain, Leclair, Illinois.
Aeronautic Gold Medal for American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Statue of Washington, Saint Louis.
Member Municipal Art Commission of Saint Louis (president 1917). Associate field director American Red Cross, at various camps, 1918-1919.
Married Elizabeth Baxter, 1900. Married second, Florence French, 1927.