Carl Milles
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A pair of pewter candlesticks and inkwell, Herman Bergman, 1930, the model exhibited at the Stockholm Exhibition.
Inkwell in the shape of Jonah and the whale, the candlesticks in the shape of fish, stamped with maker's marks and D8. The inkwell length 16 cm, the candlesticks height 13 cm.
Wear, the insert glass in the inkwell is missing.
Exhibitions
This models were exhibited at the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition in the Nordiska Kompaniet showroom, standing on a desk by Axel Einar Hjorth "Sibylla".
The plaster casts for these are in the Millesgården collections.
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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