{{short description|Danish sculptor}} {{Infobox artist | name = Carl Aarsleff | image = Carl Aarsleff.jpg | caption = Photograph of Carl Aarsleff by N.E. Sinding, 1874 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1852|8|14|df=yes}} | birth_place = Nyborg | death_date = {{Death date and age|1918|1|4|1852|8|14|df=yes}} | death_place = Copenhagen | known_for = Sculptor | training = Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts | movement = Naturalism | awards = Order of the Dannebrog | patrons = }} '''Carl Vilhelm Oluf Peter Aarsleff''' (14 August 1852 – 4 January 1918) was a Danish sculptor.
==Biography== Aarsleff was born in Nyborg on the island of Funen.<ref name=Weilbachs>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rosekamp.dk/Weilweb/A.htm#AarsleffCarlWilhelm|title=Aarsleff, Carl|publisher=Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon|accessdate=2010-08-01}}</ref> He trained as a wood carver with his father before going to Copenhagen where he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1872. He graduated from the Academy in 1876. At the same time working in the studios of Theobald Stein, Vilhelm Bissen and Jens Adolf Jerichau.<ref name=Gyldendal>{{Cite web|url=http://www.denstoredanske.dk/Kunst_og_kultur/Billedkunst/Danmark_1850-1910/Carl_Aarsleff|title=Carl Aarsleff|publisher=Gyldendal|accessdate=2010-08-01}}</ref> In 1876, he won the Academy's small gold medal and in 1880, its large gold medal. In 1881, he went abroad on a travel grant to further his studies, visiting Paris, Italy and Greece.<ref name=Weilbachs/>
In 1890 he became a member of the Academy Council. He was a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1901 and from 1914 to 1917 served as its director.
Aarsleff's production of own works was relatively slow to get off the ground.<ref name=Weilbachs/> He is best known for a number of statues and statuettes of young adults in a style influenced by Bertel Thorvaldsen and particularly by Jens Adolf Jerichau. He also made decorative works for several large architectural projects, including the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. From 1900 to 1912, he was engaged with the restoration of the sarcophagus of Margaret I of Denmark at Roskilde Cathedral.<ref name=Gyldendal/>
thumb|250 px|Mads Lerches Gård at Østfyns Museer in Nyborg He became a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1912. He died in Copenhagen and was buried at Søllerød Kirkegård.
==Legacy== Upon his death in 1918, 77 of his original works were donated to Nyborg.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.denstoredanske.dk/Kunst_og_kultur/Billedkunst/Danmark_1850-1910/Carl_Aarsleff|title=Carl Aarsleff|publisher=gravsted.dk|accessdate=2010-08-01}}</ref> They are today exhibited in an extension to Mads Lerches Gård, a building from 1601 which houses the Østfyns Museer department of cultural history (''Borgmestergården'').<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fyn.dk/modules/fsArticle/index.php?articleid=75017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20080503185454/http://www.fyn.dk/modules/fsArticle/index.php?articleid=75017|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-05-03|title=Carl Aarsleff|publisher=Kunstportal Fyn|accessdate=2010-08-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.nyborgslot.dk/planlaeg-besoeg/borgmestergaarden/|title=Borgmestergården|publisher=Østfyns Museer|accessdate=April 1, 2019}}</ref>
==See also== * Art of Denmark
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.ostfynsmuseer.dk/ Østfyns Museer website] {{Commons category}} {{s-start}} {{s-culture}} {{succession box | before= Viggo Johansen | title=Director of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts| | after= Hermann Baagøe Storck | years=1914–1917| }} {{s-end}} {{Authority control (arts)}}
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