Stanislaus Cauer

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Schiller monument in Königsberg, erected in 1910
Putti fountain in Koenigsberg

Stanislaus Cauer (born October 18, 1867 in Kreuznach ; † March 8, 1943 in Königsberg ) was a German sculptor , medalist and university professor . His best-known surviving work is the Schiller Monument in Koenigsberg, now Kaliningrad .

Life

Stanislaus Cauer was a son of the sculptor Robert Cauer the Elder and his wife Auguste nee. Schmidt. He had eight siblings. Both his older brother Ludwig (1866–1947) and his younger brother Fritz (1874–1945) also became sculptors; other members of the Cauer family were also artists. About the paternal artistic legacy, he said: “I inherit the lyrical romantic talent from my father, which then comes from life and work in Rome and the acquaintance of well-known German artists such as Louis Tuaillon , August Gaul , Artur Volkmann , August Kraus , Ludwig von Hofmann , Otto Greiner , Robert Wellmann and others rose to a more classical plastic conception ”.

Cauer learned the craft of sculpting from the age of 15 from his father in his atelier in Rome . He then went on study trips, including to France and the Netherlands. In 1897 he married in Rome. In 1905 he returned to Berlin and in 1907 was appointed to succeed Friedrich Reusch (1843–1906) as professor and head of the sculpture class at the Königsberg Art Academy . His students included Gertrud Classen, Otto Drengwitz , Christiane Gerstel-Naubereit , Hilde Leest , Paul Koralus and Fritz Szalinski . In 1925, Cauer organized an exhibition of small sculptures at the academy, including works by Käthe Kollwitz . From autumn 1931 he stayed for a longer period of work at the Villa Romana in Florence , where he created several portrait busts, including those of the archaeologist Christian Hülsen . He worked at the academy until 1941. Cauer belonged to the Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Cauer died in 1943; he was buried in the cemetery of the Juditter Church . His grave has not been preserved. He left his workshop (tools and materials) to the sculptor Arthur Steiner (1885–1960)

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Cauer created figures from stone and bronze, and fountains were also among his works. In today's Kaliningrad, in addition to the Schiller Monument in public space, the marble sculpture After Bathing next to the “House of the Artist”, two winged female relief figures, genii with wreath and cornucopia and the Hercules relief on the Hammerteich lock are preserved. The apple thief on the Old Town Market and monuments to Immanuel Kant , Nicolaus Copernicus , Johann Gottfried Herder and Lovis Corinth , which were located above the entrance to the castle school in Königsberg, were destroyed. These heads, carved in shell limestone by Wilhelm (William) Ehrich , were destroyed in 1945. “We stood in front of the school, at the entrance of which there were four busts. The colonel called the headmaster of the school and ordered their heads to be cut off. I held the ladder, we threw our heads into a bomb crater, ”reported the later writer Yuri Nikolayevich Ivanov . Ehrich emigrated to America in 1929, where he continued Cauer's tradition of public monumental art, partly as head of the Federal Art Project in Buffalo, New York. He became a resident sculptor and professor at Rochester University and was best known for his memorial on Goethe's 200th birthday.

In 1907, the Lauchhammer art foundry produced a Gothic fountain designed by Cauer for the city of Frankfurt am Main . In 1912 Cauer designed an ornamental fountain for Otto Schott's villa in Jena. In 1923 he designed a statue of the Madonna for the grave chapel at Gut Grabau in Holstein .

The putti fountain, created by Cauer in 1908, was awarded first prize at the 1912 International Fountain Fair in Poznan . The city of Posen wanted to purchase the fountain, but Cauer gave it to the city of Koenigsberg and was placed near the castle. In 1936 it was transferred to the courtyard of the university hospital, where it fell into disrepair over the years. It was not restored until the beginning of the 21st century and re-erected in 2011 on the grounds of the Ocean Museum.

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Web links

Commons : Stanislaus Cauer  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. artist. Stanislaus Cauer. German Society for Medal Art V., accessed on October 31, 2015 .
  2. Stanislaus Cauer . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 1 : A-D . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1953, p. 407 ff .
  3. Silke Osmann: A life for art. In: Ostpreußenblatt of October 17, 1992, p. 9. ( [1] PDF; 66 kB)
  4. ^ Kristina Kratz-Kessemeier: Art for the Republic. The art policy of the Prussian Ministry of Culture. Akademie Verlag, p. 565.
  5. Villa Romana (PDF; 4.44 MB).
  6. Akademie der Künste, members 1919–1933.
  7. Entry on Steiner on www.ostpreussen.net
  8. Kaliningrad Region - Urban Sculpture ( Memento of March 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ^ Yuri Nikolaiewitsch Ivanov. In: The time . No. 42/1991.
  10. ^ Reference list of the Lauchhammer art foundry, year 1907. ( Memento of October 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) accessed October 29, 2009.
  11. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Schott-Villa in Jena )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.jencity.info
  12. Angelika Schimmel: Schott expands Glass Museum - In the old tool shed, large-scale technology can be admired in the future. In: geo.viaregia.org. August 23, 2006, accessed June 20, 2020 .
  13. He created Königsberg's Puttenbrunnen. In: Preussische Allgemeine Zeitung , episode 25-08, June 21, 2008.