Emil Cauer the Younger
Emil Cauer the Younger (born August 6, 1867 in Kreuznach ; † February 13, 1946 in Gersfeld , Hesse ) was a German sculptor .
Life
Emil Cauer the Elder J. was the son of the sculptor Karl Cauer (1828–1885) and his wife Elisabeth Magdalene Schmidt . His grandfather of the same name Emil Cauer (1800–1867) was the progenitor of the Cauer sculptor dynasty .
First, Cauer learned sculpture in his father's studio, then in 1886/87 in the studio of his uncle Robert Cauer (1831-1893) in Rome . In 1888 he went to Berlin and studied with Otto Lessing (1846–1912) at the teaching establishment of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts .
Ten years later (1898) Cauer founded his own studio in Berlin. He created numerous portraits, but also small sculptures and monuments on an official commission for installation in public spaces, such as for the cities of Hagen ( Westphalia ) and Berlin.
Works
In 1899 he designed the six-meter-high bronze monument "Kaiser Friedrich III." (Eilperstrasse) for the city of Hagen and in 1902 the seven-meter high "Three Emperor Fountain" made of stone and bronze on Bodelschwinghplatz in Wehringhausen .
In 1899 he designed the double statue of a miner and a smelter for the Altenessen community as part of the Kaiserbrunnen in Kaiser-Wilhelm-Park .
For Berlin, Cauer designed and modeled the 1.20 meter tall bronze “Erika Fountain” on Adam-Kuckhoff-Platz ( Südwestkorso ) in Wilmersdorf (built in 1911 and destroyed in 1943, redesigned by Heinz Spilker in 1982 at the same location based on photos) ), the neo-baroque "Siegfried-Brunnen" (also: "Rhein-Brunnen" ; Siegfried as Rosslenker, flanked by the Rhine and Moselle in human form) made of sandstone on the Rüdesheimer Platz in Wilmersdorf (1911) and the bronze "war memorial for fallen field railroaders “ In Invalidenstrasse in the courtyard of the former Transport and Construction Museum ( set up in front of the old Hamburger Bahnhof in 1928, dismantled after the conversion to a museum and since then deposited in the satellite warehouse of the National Gallery in Berlin ). He also made numerous grave monuments.
The first example of his “Water Creator” in marble was exhibited in 1903 at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition. There it was bought by Kaiser Wilhelm II personally from the artist and is now in the Berlin National Gallery.
Prizes and awards
- 1888: First prize at the Berlin “Bismarck Monument” competition, together with his brother Ludwig Cauer (1866–1947)
literature
- 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).
- Anne Tesch: The Cauer family of sculptors. 2nd expanded edition. Harrach, Bad Kreuznach 1977, ISBN 3-88161-039-1 (former title: Art- famous hands. Biography of the Cauer family of sculptors. Ibid 1967).
- Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4
- Emil Cauer , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 21/1947 of May 12, 1947, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jan Niko Kirschbaum: Hans Georg von Arnim memorial from November 13, 2011
- ^ The consecration of the railway workers' monument in Berlin. In: Newspaper of the Association of German Railway Administrations, Volume 68, No. 47 (November 22, 1928), p. 1264.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cauer, Emil the Younger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kreuznach |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 1946 |
| Place of death | Gersfeld (Rhoen) |