Oswald Causin

Oswald Causin (born May 29, 1893 in Düsseldorf ; † May 27, 1953 ) was a German artist and sculptor.

Causin was one of five children of a Düsseldorf factory director. From the age of 15 he learned how to work with plasticine and plaster, as well as plaster and bronze casting, at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts . After Causin had made a bust of the then seriously ill daughter Ilse von Walter Renard, an entrepreneur from Neuss, in 1921, Causin introduced him to the Neuss company and brought him many new orders. Causin settled in Neuss on Parkstrasse . It was bombed out in October 1944. The cardiac Causin moved to Helmarshausen with his wife, who was also sick . He died of a stroke.

Causin made portraits, tombs and house reliefs. The Clemens Sels Museum in Neuss dedicated an exhibition to him in 2002.

The Weckhoven Memorial 1914-18 on Lindenplatz , Neuss, inaugurated in 1927, comes from Causin. Well known is the egg thief in the old city garden made of bronze, co-financed by citizens with donations and inaugurated on July 21, 1934.

literature

• Thomas Ludewig, Rolf Causin, Steffan Sturm: Neuss heads: The works of art by Oswald Causin. Exhibition in the Clemens-Sels-Museum Neuss from February 14th to April 7th, 2002. Neuss, 2002

Individual evidence

1. ↑ estate
2. ↑ Portrait of Marianne, Hans-Otto and Gisela D'ham, 1928
3. ↑ https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/neuss/causins-eierdieb-ist-laengst-neusser-kult_aid-14925633
4. ↑ https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/neuss/einmal-auf-dem-eierdieb-sitzen_aid-14112643
5. ↑ http://www.denkmalprojekt.org/2017/neuss-weckhoven_rhein-kreis-neuss_nrw_1.html
6. ↑ http://www.karl-heinz-burghartz.de/plaintext/unsere-stadt/wüsten-sie-schon/der-eierdieb/index.html