Carl Milles
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"Solsångaren"
Stamp signature C. Milles. Foundry mark L. Rasmussen, Køpenhavn. Bronze, green patina. Height 91 cm.
Literature
M. P. Verneuil, "Carl Milles - sculpteur Suédois", Les èditions van Oest, Paris och Brüssel, 1929, compare ill. 121 and 122.
Henrik Cornell, "Carl Milles, hans verk" , 1957, compare ill 52.
Erik Näslund, "Carl Milles - en biografi", Förlags AB Wiken, Höganäs 1991, compare ill. p. 160.
More information
“Solsångaren” belongs, alongside, "Solglitter" and "Europa and the Bull", to the artist's most famous and popular works. It is typical of 1920s-styleideals, which were classicism. In the classic manner “Solsångaren” has taken contrapposto position so the body’s weight rests on one leg, while the other is put forward. By reducing the statue to a torso, ie cut the head and arms, the figure's movement becomes clearer and the shape is more prominent. The torso was erected in its original size in the 1920's for, among other places, the garden to the Milles museum in Stockholm; Millesgården.
Artist
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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