Ferdinand Freiherr von Miller

Ferdinand Miller, from 1875 von Miller and from 1912 Freiherr von Miller (8 June 1842 – 18 December 1929) was an ore caster, sculptor and director of the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (Akademie der Bildenden Künste München). He also held a seat in the Royal Bavarian House of Lords, the Reichsrat.

Family

Miller was born and died in Munich. He was the son of the artisan and First Inspector of the Royal Munich brass foundry, Ferdinand von Miller (1813–1887), and Anna Pösl (1815–1890). With the elevation of his father Ferdinand into the Bavarian nobility on 12 October 1875 and with the inscription of the family name on the roll of the aristocracy of the Kingdom of Bavaria on 30 December 1875, Ferdinand was simultaneously ennobled. and was promoted to Bavarian Freiherr (Baron) on 22 June 1912 in Berchtesgaden. He is buried in the family graveside Winthirkirche Cemetery in Munich-Neuhausen.

Work Statue of J. Marion Sims on Fifth Avenue, on the wall of Central Park, NYC

von Miller's work includes:

some of the figures on the Tyler Davidson Fountain in Cincinnati, Ohio, along with his brother Fritz von Miller as a commission from his father (1871) colossal statues of Shakespeare and Alexander von Humboldt in Tower Grove Park, St. Louis, Missouri (1878) monument to Albertus Magnus, Lauingen, Germany (1881) near Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street, New York City (1894) bronze of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Kaiser-Ludwig-Platz, Munich (1905) five allegorical figures of Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia holding Simón Bolívar aloft, at the Puente de Boyacá historic site near Tunja, Colombia (1920)