Carl Rohl-Smith, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Danish-American sculptor
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Place of Birth: Roskilde, Region Zealand, Denmark
About Carl Rohl-Smith
- Carl Wilhelm Daniel Rohl-Smith (April 3, 1848- August 20, 1900) was a Danish American sculptor who was active in Europe and the United States from 1870 to 1900.
- He sculpted a number of life-size and small bronzes based on Greco-Roman mythological themes in Europe as well as a wide number of bas-reliefs, busts, funerary monuments, and statues throughout Denmark, the German Confederation, and Italy.
- Emigrating to the United States in 1886, he once more produced a number of sculptures for private citizens.
- His most noted American works were a statue of a soldier for a Battle of the Alamo memorial in Texas, a statue of Benjamin Franklin for the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, a statue group in Chicago commemorating the Fort Dearborn Massacre, and the General William Tecumseh Sherman Monument in Washington, D.C.
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