Emil Cauer the Elder

Emil Cauer the Elder, 1867, lithograph by Krüll and Michael

Emil Cauer the Elder around 1860

Emil Cauer the Elder (* 29. November 1800 in Dresden , † 4. August 1867 in Kreuznach ) was a German sculptor of Classicism . Cauer is the progenitor of an extensive family of sculptors .

Life

He was born in Dresden as the son of the general practitioner Carl Ludwig Cauer (1750-1813). After he died, his eldest brother Ludwig took him to Berlin in January 1814 . In 1821 Emil Cauer entered the Berlin Art Academy . In 1822 he worked in Christian Daniel Rauch's studio , and in 1824 he moved to Munich . Just one year later he moved to Bonn , where he received a teaching position as a drawing teacher at the university. He stayed four years and mainly modeled portrait busts.

In 1829 he became curator of the collection of antiques in Dresden . In 1832 he moved to Kreuznach, where he again took up a drawing teacher position at the Royal High School as the successor to Eduard von Leslie . He set up his own studio in Kreuznach. Emil Cauer died there in 1867 at the age of 66. He became known through a series of statuettes of historical personalities, such as Franz von Sickingen , Ulrich von Hutten , Götz von Berlichingen , Martin Luther , Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Charles V.

His sons Robert and Karl also became famous sculptors, as did his grandson Robert Cauer the Elder. J. His daughter Anna (1829–1881), married to Stanislaus von Kalckreuth , is the great-grandmother a. a. by Karl Friedrich , Klaus , Dietrich and Sabine Bonhoeffer . The latter worked as a sculptor herself for a time, and a few portrait busts of her twin brother Dietrich Bonhoeffer have survived .

gallery

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  Emil Cauer the Elder from his son Carl Cauer

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  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing by Emil Cauer the Elder Elderly

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  Figure group "Little Red Riding Hood" by Emil Cauer the Elder. Ä.

literature

• Wilhelm Schmidt:  Cauer, Emil . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 76.
• Elisabeth Heimpel:  Cauer. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 178 ( digitized version ). (Family item)
• Elke Masa: The Cauer family of sculptors in the 19th and 20th centuries. Nine sculptors from four generations - Emil Cauer d. Ä., Carl Cauer, Robert Cauer the Elder Ä., Robert Cauer the Elder J., Hugo Cauer, Ludwig Cauer, Emil Cauer the Elder. J., Stanislaus Cauer, Hanna Cauer. Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-7861-1582-6 (also: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss., 1983).

Web links

Commons : Emil Cauer the Elder  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Cauer, Emil the Elder. Hessian biography. (As of January 7, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Entry on Emil Cauer the Elder in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database