Maker/Artist
Fjelde, Paul
American sculptor, 1892-1987
Paul Fjelde was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 12, 1892, the son of a sculptor who emigrated from Norway in 1887. He studied at the Minneapolis School of Art, starting at the age of 15. He also studied at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design and the Art Students League in New York, with Lorado Taft in Chicago, at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen, and at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris. He served as chair of the Sculpture Department at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He also taught at the Pratt Institute and was a professor emeritus upon retirement. He later was an instructor of sculpture at the National Academy School of Fine Arts in New York City. His public sculptures include the Lincoln Monument at Frogner Park in Oslo, and the statue of Col. Hans C. Heg, Civil War leader of a Norwegian regiment, in Madison, Wisconsin.
