Ludwig Cauer (sculptor)

The Hutten-Sickingen monument around 1900

Ludwig Cauer (born May 28, 1866 in Kreuznach ; † December 27, 1947 there ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Ludwig Cauer was born as the son of Helene and Karl Cauer on May 28, 1866 in Kreuznach into the Cauer family of sculptors founded by his grandfather Emil Cauer the Elder . After his death in 1867, his two sons, Karl and Robert the Elder, continued the Cauer studio. The third generation, to which Ludwig Cauer and his brothers Emil d. J. , Robert d. J. and Hugo also received their first training there. In 1881, his father took 15-year-old Ludwig with him to Rome for study purposes. After his father's death in 1885, he worked in Berlin from 1886 to 1888 in the workshops of Albert Wolff and Reinhold Begas, and during this time in 1887 he passed his craftsman exams in Koblenz . Together with his brothers, he carried out the Hutten-Sickingen monument designed by his father below Ebernburg Castle in Bad Münster am Stein , which was unveiled in 1889. Then he completed the one-year military service .

After two years in London from 1891 to 1893 and a short stay in Bad Kreuznach, he lived in Berlin from 1895 to 1905. These years were marked by the collaboration with Reinhold Begas and by monumental sculpture. In 1897 he made his contributions to the Kaiser Wilhelm National Monument of the first German Emperor Wilhelm I opposite the Eosander portal on the west side of the Berlin City Palace , between 1897 and 1901 several statues for the Berlin Siegesallee and in 1901 a tritons - and a group of naiads for the fountains at Bismarck National Monument in front of the Reichstag building . He and his brother Emil won the competition for the Bismarck Monument in 1896, but a design by Reinhold Begas was carried out.

From 1900 he turned to a simpler design language. In 1900 he received a small gold medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition . A stay in Paris in 1909 was followed by a stay in the Villa Romana of the German Association of Artists in Florence in 1912 . In 1916 he was appointed professor and member of the Berlin Academy . Ludwig Cauer retired to Bad Kreuznach from 1918, mainly occupied himself with tomb art and became involved in the Westmark Artists Association from 1921 . In 1941, in old age, he was banned from working. Ludwig Cauer died on December 27, 1947 in Bad Kreuznach.

Works

Fisherman relief in the Rhine facilities in Koblenz, 1915

1890-1892:	Bronze group Der Durst in Bad Kreuznach
1894:	Sandstone statue (2.32 m high) of Konrad I on the Bodensteiner Lei near Villmar
1897:	Collaboration on the national monument for Kaiser Wilhelm I in front of the Berlin Palace
1897–1900:	Group of Emperor Karl IV. In Siegesallee in Berlin's Tiergarten, since May 2009 in the Spandau Citadel
1901:	Triton and naiad groups by the basins to the left and right of the Bismarck National Monument on the Platz der Republik in Berlin. When the monument was moved to its current location on the Großer Stern in 1938 , the secondary groups were removed and are now lost.
1902:	Young Telemachos , girding his sword Central statue in a fountain on the Rathausplatz in Saarbrücken dismantled in 1936, it was initially thought to be lost. It was rediscovered after the Second World War and then temporarily placed in the palace garden . 1976 was carried translocation in a built in suburban street at the foot of the stairs trills niche wall.
1915:	Fisherman relief in the Rhine facilities in Koblenz
1925–1937:	Figures of the Salian Emperor Konrad II with his wife Gisela, Heinrich III. and minor characters, Heinrich IV. , Heinrich V. and minor character (made of shell limestone) in the Dompark in Speyer

Web links

Commons : Ludwig Cauer - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Ludwig Cauer in the catalog of the German National Library
Cauer, Paul Ludwig. Hessian biography. (As of December 27, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Entry on Ludwig Cauer in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database

Individual evidence

↑ Christof Trepesch: Saarbruecken. From the holdings of the old collection of the Saarland Museum (= the archive images series. ). Sutton, Erfurt 1999, ISBN 3-89702-105-6 , p. 94.

personal data
SURNAME	Cauer, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	May 28, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kreuznach
DATE OF DEATH	December 27, 1947
Place of death	Bad Kreuznach

[1] Christof Trepesch: Saarbruecken. From the holdings of the old collection of the Saarland Museum (= the archive images series. ). Sutton, Erfurt 1999, ISBN 3-89702-105-6 , p. 94.