Carl Milles
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"Europa och tjuren" (Europe and the bull)
Plaster. Length 69, height 79 cm.
Provenance
Gåva från Carl och Olga Milles till gode vännen Erik Palmstierna 1953. Boken "Millesgården" dedikerad till vännen Erik Palmstierna från Olga och Carl medföljer.
Erik Palmstierna (1877-1959) officer, diplomat och politiker. Sjöförsvarspolitiker 1917-1920, utrikesminister 1920 samt envoyé i London 1920-1937. 1958 flyttade han till Florens där han avled 1959.
Designer
Carl Milles was a Swedish sculptor born in Lägga. He studied at the Technical School in Stockholm, at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Auguste Rodin and on study trips to Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. In Paris he came to stay for many years and made a living as an ornament carver. He studied the animals in the Jardin des Plantes (the Zoological Garden) and was strongly influenced by Auguste Rodin. Milles made a breakthrough with a monument to Sten Sture in Uppsala. He exhibited at the World's Fair in 1900 and was later given a solo exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London. Milles was professor of modeling at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm. Well-known sculptures in public places signed by Carl Milles are the "Gustav Vasa" statue at the Nordic Museum, "Orfeusgruppen" outside the concert hall in Stockholm and the "Poseidonfontänen" in Gothenburg.
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