Karl Cauer

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Karl Cauer , Christian name Carl Ludwig Cauer (* 14. February 1828 in Bonn ; † 17th April 1885 in Kreuznach ), was a German sculptor of Classicism .

Life

Karl Cauer, offspring of the artist family Cauer , was the son of the sculptor Emil Cauer the Elder and his wife Johanna Catharina Ludovica "Luise" Tils. His younger brother was the sculptor Robert Cauer the Elder . Through his sister Anna he was brother-in-law of the painter Stanislaus von Kalckreuth . Cauer married (Helene) Magdalene Elisabeth Schmidt (1828–1906). The couple had seven children: their daughters Anna (1868–1922) and Maria Helene Louise (1861–1928), later the wife of the composer Arnold Mendelssohn , and their sons Robert , Hugo (1864–1918), Ludwig and Emil , who became sculptors , as well as Hans , who became a painter.

Olympic champion , 1868, Germanisches Nationalmuseum

After initial instruction, which he had already received at the age of 16 in his father's workshop, he went to Berlin for further artistic training with Christian Daniel Rauch and Albert Wolff . In 1848 he moved to Rome to study antiquity . In 1851 he went - attracted by the Elgin Marbles - to London , where he was busy with portraits until 1854. After a few years in Germany, he traveled to Rome again in 1857 and stayed there until 1862. In that year he carried out the Schiller Memorial in Mannheim . After that he lived in Kreuznach. He ran a joint studio there with his brother Robert. Since 1873 he moved between Kreuznach and Rome, where he also had a sculptor's workshop together with his brother Robert, managed the "production of casts based on the sculpture treasure of Italy" for Berlin art institutions on behalf of the Prussian Ministry of Education and supported the establishment of a German state institution for the fine arts in Rome. In 1877/1878 he was chairman of the German Art Association of Rome. From 1881 he lived permanently in Kreuznach. He returned suffering from a trip to St. Louis in the United States , which he had started in 1884 to inaugurate his memorial for President James A. Garfield , who died in 1881 , so that the Hutten-Sickingen memorial he designed in Bad Munster at Stein-Ebernburg had to be completed by his sons Robert and Ludwig. Cauer died in Kreuznach at the age of 57.

Cauer is considered to be the inventor of ivory plaster , an ivory-like mass made from plaster of paris , other mineral substances and a binding agent. This mass can be poured into molds, making it easy and cheap to reproduce and also easy to clean. As a result of in-depth studies of ancient works and many experiments, Cauer also came up with a method of underlaying a gold background that worked through color . He used this method for both casts and his own marble works.

Work (selection)

Witch , 1874, National Gallery Berlin

literature

Web links

Commons : Karl Cauer (sculptor)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages. 2 volumes. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 1, p. 614
  2. ^ Friedrich Noack: The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . 2 volumes. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 123
  3. ↑ Klaus Freckmann (ed.), Angela Nestler-Zapp: The sculptor family Cauer. Artistic designs and social requirements (= series of publications by the Sobernheim open-air museum, 17). Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-7927-1824-3 , p. 40
  4. ↑ Ursula Peters: 100 Years of the Modern Olympic Games. On Carl Cauer's sculpture “Olympic Winner” in the exhibition “Facets of Bourgeois Art and Culture. From classicism to the era of world exhibitions ” . In: G. Ulrich Großmann (ed.): Month's display. Museums and exhibitions in Nuremberg . No. 182 (Issue 5, May 1996), p. 2 f. ( Digitized version )
  5. ↑ Silvia Irina Zimmermann: The poetic queen. Elisabeth, Princess of Wied, Queen of Romania, Carmen Sylva (1843–1916). Self-mythization and prodynastic public relations through literature . ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-8382-0185-6 , p. 202 ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Cauer, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cauer, Carl Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor of classicism
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1885
Place of death Bad Kreuznach