# Milly Steger

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{{short description|German sculptor}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Milly Steger
| image = File:Milly_Steger_by_Alexander_Binder,_1922.jpg
| birth_date = 15 June 1881
| death_date = {{d-da|31 October 1948|15 June 1881}}
| alt = Milly Steger poses with a nude 2 feet tall sculpture placed on a table
| birth_name = Emilie Sibilla Elisabeth Johanna Steger
| birth_place = [Rheinberg](/source/Rheinberg), [German Empire](/source/German_Empire)
| caption = Milly Steger, 1922
| death_place = Berlin
}}'''Milly Steger''' (15 June 1881 in Rheinberg as ''Emilie Sibilla Elisabeth Johanna Steger'' – 31 October 1948 in Berlin) was a German sculptor.

==Biography==
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Milly Steger, born in [Rheinberg](/source/Rheinberg) as ''Emilie Sibilla Elisabeth Johanna Steger'', spent her childhood in Elberfeld where her father was appointed as magistrate.  After completing her general education, she received language and propriety education in a boarding school in [London](/source/London). While there, she took instruction in painting and decided to become an artist.  In [Elberfeld](/source/Elberfeld), she then attended a class for plasterers and stonemasons at the local arts and crafts school.

From 1903 to 1906, she received private training from [Karl Janssen](/source/Karl_Janssen) in [Düsseldorf](/source/D%C3%BCsseldorf), as women were not allowed to attend the arts academy. She moved to [Berlin](/source/Berlin) in 1908, where she began teaching at the Women's Academy at the Society of Berlin Artists.

Steger was invited by the art patron [Karl Ernst Osthaus](/source/Karl_Ernst_Osthaus) to [Hagen](/source/Hagen) in 1910, where she was commissioned to create the first large-scale architectural sculpture for the city, creating four statues of women for the facade of the [Hagen Theater](/source/Hagen_Theatre).  She was involved in the artist circle around Osthaus and made contacts with the sculptors [Moissey Kogan](/source/Moissey_Kogan) and [Will Lammert](/source/Will_Lammert), the painter [Christian Rohlfs](/source/Christian_Rohlfs), and the glass painter [Jan Thorn-Prikker](/source/Johan_Thorn_Prikker).  Steger lived in a house in the artists' colony "Am Stirnband" in Hohenhagen.

For the tenth anniversary of the Folkwang Museum in Hagen in 1912, Milly Steger donated a sandstone women's head above the museum portal. In the following three years she designed reliefs for the Stadthalle Hagen. Supported by Osthaus, she participated in exhibitions of the Sonderbund (1910 in Düsseldorf and 1912 in Cologne) and at the German Werkbund Exhibition in Cologne in 1914.

Her financial situation deteriorated during [World War I](/source/World_War_I) such that she could no longer afford the rent for her studio in Hagen. In 1917 she returned to Berlin, where she remained until the end of her life.

Steger spent much of the rest of her life teaching drawing and sculpture. Her work was also part of the [sculpture event](/source/Art_competitions_at_the_1936_Summer_Olympics) in the [art competition](/source/Art_competitions_at_the_1936_Summer_Olympics) at the [1936 Summer Olympics](/source/1936_Summer_Olympics).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/920729 |title=Milly Steger |work=Olympedia |accessdate=18 August 2020}}</ref> Notable avant-garde patron [Katherine Dreier](/source/Katherine_Sophie_Dreier) collected her work, but much of Steger's unsold work was lost when her studio was destroyed during [World War II](/source/World_War_II). Just before her death in 1948, Steger was named the honorary president of the [Democratic Women's League of Germany](/source/Democratic_Women's_League_of_Germany).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artfinding.com/101973/Biography/Steger-Milly|title=Milly Steger (German, 1881-1948) - Biography|last=Power|first=Intelligence|date=|website=www.artfinding.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811055503/http://www.artfinding.com/101973/Biography/Steger-Milly|archive-date=August 11, 2017|access-date=2017-08-11}}</ref><ref>[http://www.andreageyer.info/revolttheysaid/s.html "Revolt, They Said". www.andreageyer.info.] Retrieved 2017-08-10.</ref>

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Category:20th-century German women sculptors
Category:20th-century German sculptors
Category:1881 births
Category:1948 deaths
Category:Art competitors at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Category:Artists in the Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung

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