Karl Cauer
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.
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)
- Statue of Achilles, pulling the arrow from his heel , 1854
- Marble portrait of Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia
- Portrait of Franz Joseph I of Austria
- Marble group Hector's Farewell to Andromache , 1858
- Christ head , 1859
- Schiller memorial in Mannheim , 1862
- Busts of the royal family Karl Anton von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen for the Jägerhof Palace in Düsseldorf
- Bronze statue Olympic champion , 1868, Germanisches Nationalmuseum
- Marble sculpture witch , created in Rome in 1874, in the Nationalgalerie Berlin since 1881 , inspired Elisabeth zu Wied under the pseudonym Carmen Sylva to create a poem with the fantastic figure of an instinctual witch Demona
- James A. Garfield Memorial in St. Louis
- Draft sketch for the Hutten-Sickingen monument
literature
- Hyacinth Holland : Cauer, Karl Ludwig . In: Deutsche Biographie , 47 (1903), p. 466 f.
- Friedrich Back : Cauer, Karl . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 6 : Carlini-Cioci . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 199 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Carl Cauer , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie )
- Carl Cauer , genealogical data sheet in the portal merkelstiftung.de
- Cauer, Carl Ludwig. Hessian biography. (As of April 17, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- Entry on Karl Cauer in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages. 2 volumes. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 1, p. 614
- ^ Friedrich Noack: The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . 2 volumes. Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 123
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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 )
- ↑ 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 | |
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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 |