Robert Cauer the Elder

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Cauer the Elder Ä., 1867. Graphic by Krüll and Michael .
Robert Cauer the Elder Ä.

Robert Cauer the Elder Ä. (* February 13, 1831 in Dresden ; † April 2, 1893 in Kassel ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Robert Cauer the Elder was the son of Emil Cauer the Elder . Ä. and brother of Karl Cauer . The Cauers are an extensive family of artists, primarily sculptors - a profession that his sons Stanislaus and Friedrich Cauer also took up. The nephew Hans Cauer was also a painter, the nephews Emil and Hugo Cauer , sons of the brother Karl, were sculptors.

Born in Dresden , he received his first lessons from his father in Kreuznach . From 1851 to 1856 he studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Wilhelm von Schadow and Karl Ferdinand Sohn , in the meantime (1853/54) also at the academy's building school, under Rudolf Wiegmann . He was friends with the budding painters Ernst Bosch , Hubert Salentin and Carl Thiel , with whom he lived together. From 1851 to 1857 he was also a member of the Malkasten artists' association . Through further instruction from his father in Kreuznach, he switched back to sculpture without giving up painting and drawing entirely. Between 1856 and 1858 he made trips to Dresden and Berlin, England and Scotland. From 1856 to 1861 he stayed several times in Rome, where he settled in 1882 until shortly before his death. Together with his brother Karl, he set up a studio here in 1883 and ran another in Kreuznach . In Rome he advised and supervised the German Rome scholarship recipients in the Villa Strohl-Fern from 1887 onwards on the official order of the Prussian government . In 1888 the Prussian Ministry of Education appointed him professor. From 1889 he lived alternately in Rome and Kassel. His portrait bust was created by his nephew Ludwig Cauer ; a portrait drawing by Carl Thiel and an anonymous caricature are kept by the artists' association Malkasten in Düsseldorf.

plant

In his early paintings, Cauer dealt with subjects such as “ Rübezahl ” or “ Playing Children ”, but as a sculptor he occasionally selected motifs from literature, including “ Hermann and Dorothea ”, “ Paul and Virginie ”, “ Loreley ”, and in particular the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, for example " Sleeping Beauty ", " Snow White " or " Puss in Boots ". The sculptures that emulated his father's work - “ Venus and Cupid ”, “ Venus with Dolphin ” or the numerous portrait plaques - were more oriented towards classical antiquity .

Cauer was best known as the creator of important portrait sculptures and grave monuments, including several in the Old Cemetery in Bonn , for example those by Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander , Paula Doetsch and Nikolaus Simrock . In 1876, Cauer created the grave of Maximilian Freiherr Roth von Schreckenstein in the cemetery of honor in the German-French garden in Saarbrücken. In 1872 the marble sculpture "Sleeping Girl" was created.

literature

gallery

Web links

Commons : Robert Cauer the Elder  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Weiß : Ernst Bosch (1834–1917), Life and Work: on Düsseldorf painting of the 2nd half of the 19th century. Diss. Univ. Munich 1992.
  2. ↑ To the Chronicle of the Academy. From August 1884 to the end of March 1886. In: Illustrated catalog: Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin in the state exhibition building: Jubilee exhibition of the Kgl. Akademie der Künste in the state exhibition building in Berlin: from May to October 1886, illustrated catalog, Berlin, 1886.
personal data
SURNAME Cauer, Robert the Elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cauer, Robert the Elder Ä.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1831
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1893
Place of death kassel