Carl Milles

Carl Milles, born 1875 at Lagga, Uppsala, was a Swedish sculptor known for his expressive and rhythmical large-scale fountains. Milles studied and worked in Paris from 1897 to 1904. He won public recognition in 1902 through the competition for a monument honoring the Swedish regent Sten Sture at Uppsala, completed 1925. In his early work Milles was influenced by the French Romantic sculptor Auguste Rodin. He created his first major fountain, Europa (1926), for the city of Halmstad, Sweden. His other notable fountains include Orpheus Fountain in Stockholm (1936) and Meeting of the Waters in St. Louis, Missouri (1940). In 1931 Milles became head of the sculpture department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and in 1945 he became a U.S. citizen.