Maker/Artist
Milles, Carl
Swedish sculptor and professor, 1875-1955, active in the United States
Born 23 June 1875, Carl Milles attended the Kungliga Tekniska Högskola, Stockholm (1895-1897), after which he visited Paris and attended, among others, the Académie Colarossi. He lived in Munich from 1904 to 1906 and returned to Sweden in 1908. He was Professor at the Konsthögskola, Stockholm, from 1920 to 1931. Milles designed the Angel of Death sculpture in 1921 to be placed above the loggia on the roof of Woodland Chapel, Stockholm, Sweden. In 1931 he moved to the United States and taught at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, from 1931 to 1945. He became an American citizen in 1945. He carried out numerous commissions in Sweden and the United States throughout his life. He died 19 September 1955. American(?) sculptor.
