Carl Rohl-Smith

Carl Rohl-Smith
Carl Rohl-Smith c. 1899
Born	(1848-04-03)April 3, 1848 Roskilde, Denmark
Died	August 20, 1900(1900-08-20) (aged 52) Copenhagen, Denmark
Nationality	Danish American
Education	Copenhagen Academy
Known for	Sculpture
Notable work	General William Tecumseh Sherman Monument Iowa Soldiers and Sailors Monument William Belknap Funerary Monument
Movement	Realism (visual arts)

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.

Rohl-Smith was born on April 3, 1848, in Roskilde, Denmark, to Caspar Wilhelm Smith and Johanne Marie Frederikke Sophie Röhl Smith. His father was a philologist at the University of Copenhagen. As a child, Rohl-Smith exhibited an artistic nature and was making sculptures out of any materials he could find.