DOI Heft:
No. 215 (February, 1911)
DOI Artikel:Benoit-Lévy, Georges: A Swedish sculptor: Carl J. Eldh
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20972#0049
A Swedish Sculptor, Carl /. Eldh
"LINNEA" BV CARL J. ELDH
Stockholm and worked there in
Mellin's studio, at the same time
taking the course in the technical
school.
"In 1896 I left Sweden for
Paris, where I worked for five
years in the Academie Colarossi
at Montparaasse under Injalbert.
In order to live I obtained at the
same time employment in the
studio of a sculptor, for whom 1
roughed-out the works in stone,
and did also some carving in wood.
I remained in Paris until 190.2.
For several years 1 exhibited at
the Salon des Artistes Francais :
in 1900 1 gained honourable men-
tion for my statue A Mothers
Sorrow, and in 1902 received a third medal for my
Linnea. At the Exposition Universelle, 1900, I obtained
an award for a marble Innocence.
" In 1904 I returned to Stockholm. Several of my
works have been purchased by the different public gal-
leries.
" To Paris I feel I owe my ability to see and my
power of working. Among your French sculptors" I admire
most Rodin and Bartholome. The air of Paris seems to
me eminently conducive to work, and I feel thoroughly
at home surrounded by the people of Paris, for whom I
have a sincere regard."
What Eldh did not tell me, but what I learned later,
was that his father was a workman of quite modest means,
and that it was only by becoming apprenticed to different
masters that he was able little by little to put by the
necessary sums to enable him to prosecute his studies.
I must in all sincerity admit that I was familiar with
only a few works by Eldh before having the good fortune
to make the artist's acquaintance. It is to that lover of
art, Mr. Thorsten Laurin, of Stockholm, that I owe
" OUTSIDE THB NIGHT REFUGE" BY CARL J. ELDH
27
"LINNEA" BV CARL J. ELDH
Stockholm and worked there in
Mellin's studio, at the same time
taking the course in the technical
school.
"In 1896 I left Sweden for
Paris, where I worked for five
years in the Academie Colarossi
at Montparaasse under Injalbert.
In order to live I obtained at the
same time employment in the
studio of a sculptor, for whom 1
roughed-out the works in stone,
and did also some carving in wood.
I remained in Paris until 190.2.
For several years 1 exhibited at
the Salon des Artistes Francais :
in 1900 1 gained honourable men-
tion for my statue A Mothers
Sorrow, and in 1902 received a third medal for my
Linnea. At the Exposition Universelle, 1900, I obtained
an award for a marble Innocence.
" In 1904 I returned to Stockholm. Several of my
works have been purchased by the different public gal-
leries.
" To Paris I feel I owe my ability to see and my
power of working. Among your French sculptors" I admire
most Rodin and Bartholome. The air of Paris seems to
me eminently conducive to work, and I feel thoroughly
at home surrounded by the people of Paris, for whom I
have a sincere regard."
What Eldh did not tell me, but what I learned later,
was that his father was a workman of quite modest means,
and that it was only by becoming apprenticed to different
masters that he was able little by little to put by the
necessary sums to enable him to prosecute his studies.
I must in all sincerity admit that I was familiar with
only a few works by Eldh before having the good fortune
to make the artist's acquaintance. It is to that lover of
art, Mr. Thorsten Laurin, of Stockholm, that I owe
" OUTSIDE THB NIGHT REFUGE" BY CARL J. ELDH
27