Hanna Cauer

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Hanna Cauer (born March 8, 1902 in Kreuznach ; † May 16, 1989 in Bad Kreuznach ) was a German sculptor and painter .

Life

Floating goddess by Hanna Cauer in the Oranienpark in Bad Kreuznach.jpg

Hanna Cauer was the third child and eldest daughter of Ludwig Cauer and Frederice Cauer, nee. Engelsmann, born in Bad Kreuznach. Her teacher was Lina Hilger . Encouraged by Max Liebermann , Cauer had her first exhibition in Berlin at the age of fourteen. In 1919/20 she studied at the Prussian Academy of Arts with Curt Siegel , in 1922 in Hamburg with her uncle Leopold von Kalckreuth , then again in Berlin painting with Leo von König , Emil Orlik and Max Slevogt . In 1927 she was Hugo Lederer's master class student .

In 1930, Cauer was the first woman to receive a scholarship from the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo . During the National Socialist era , she carried out several government contracts, including a Pallas Athene in the Reich Ministry of the Interior in 1938 . Her Berlin studio was destroyed in a bomb attack in 1944. In 1945 she returned to her hometown Bad Kreuznach, where she continued to work as an artist until her death in 1989. This is how the floating woman in Oranienpark , the grape girl in the spa gardens or the fish girl in front of the Martinihaus were created.

The Cauer Society preserves the memory of the Cauer family and restored Hanna Cauer's studio.

Awards

literature

  • Gudrun Schmidt-Esters: Cauer, Hanna . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 17, Saur, Munich a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-598-22757-4 , p. 332.
  • Anja Cherdron: "Prometheus was not her ancestor": Berlin sculptors from the Weimar Republic . Marburg: Jonas-Verlag, 2000, p. 198

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angela Windholz: On the history of the German Academy in Rome. In: Website of the Villa Massimo. German Academy Rome Villa Massimo, accessed on July 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Cauer, Hanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and painter
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Kreuznach
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1989
Place of death Bad Kreuznach