![Ludwig Cauer](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Ludwig_Cauer.jpg)
Ludwig Cauer (28 May 1866,
Bad Kreuznach - 27 December 1947, Bad Kreuznach) was a German sculptor.
Life
![Koblenz im Buga-Jahr 2011 - Rheinanlagen 14](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Koblenz_im_Buga-Jahr_2011_-_Rheinanlagen_14.jpg)
He was born into a family of sculptors who operated a workshop founded by his grandfather
Emil Cauer the Elder. After Emil's death in 1867, his father
Karl Karl may refer to:
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and uncle
Robert
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took over the studio and, when he was old enough, he received his first training there along with his brothers
Emil,
Robert
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and Hugo (1864-1918), who would also become sculptors of some note. At the age of fifteen, his father took him on a study trip to Rome. After his father's death in 1885, he went to Berlin, where he worked in the studios of
Albert Wolff and
Reinhold Begas, passing the craftsman examination at
Koblenz in 1887. This was followed by a year of military service.
He spent the years 1891 to 1893 in London then, after a brief stay in Bad Kreuznach, lived in Berlin from 1895 to 1905. During that time, he worked on the
Siegesallee
The Siegesallee (, ''Victory Avenue'') was a broad boulevard in Berlin, Germany. In 1895, Kaiser Wilhelm II ordered and financed the expansion of an existing avenue, to be adorned with a variety of marble statues. Work was completed in 1901.
A ...
(Victory Avenue) project of
Wilhelm II
, house = Hohenzollern
, father = Frederick III, German Emperor
, mother = Victoria, Princess Royal
, religion = Lutheranism (Prussian United)
, signature = Wilhelm II, German Emperor Signature-.svg
Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor ...
, also producing statues for fountains and contributing to the
National Kaiser Wilhelm Monument
The National Kaiser Wilhelm Monument (''Kaiser-Wilhelm-Nationaldenkmal'') was a memorial structure in Berlin dedicated to Wilhelm I, first Emperor of Imperial Germany. It stood in front of the Berlin Palace from 1897 to 1950, when both structures ...
.
After completing his part of the Siegesallee, he began working in a simpler style. In 1911, he was awarded the
Villa Romana Prize
The Villa Romana Prize, german: Villa-Romana-Preis, italic=no, is an art prize awarded by the Deutscher Künstlerbund. It was established in 1905 and is the oldest German art award. The prize consists of a one-year artistic residence in the ...
and spent 1912 in Florence at the Villa as a guest of the
Deutscher Künstlerbund. He was appointed a Professor at the
Prussian Academy of Arts
The Prussian Academy of Arts (German: ''Preußische Akademie der Künste'') was a state arts academy first established in Berlin, Brandenburg, in 1694/1696 by prince-elector Frederick III, in personal union Duke Frederick I of Prussia, and late ...
in 1916. After World War I, he returned to Bad Kreuznach and concentrated mostly on
funerary art
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. In 1941, the Nazi government issued a
Berufsverbot
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(professional disqualification) against him.
His daughter Hanna and son Eduard also became sculptors.
Selected works
![Telemachos Saarbruecken](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Telemachos_Saarbruecken.jpg)
* 1892, "Thirst", an anti-war sculpture, in Bad Kreuznach.
* 1894,
Sandstone
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Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates ...
statue of
Conrad I of Germany
Conrad I (; c. 881 – 23 December 918), called the Younger, was the king of East Francia from 911 to 918. He was the first king not of the Carolingian dynasty, the first to be elected by the nobility and the first to be anointed. He was chosen a ...
in
Villmar
* 1897-1900, Group 13 in the Siegesallee project, consisting of
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor as the central figure; flanked by Dietrich Kagelwit (or "von Portitz", c.1300-1367), the
Archbishop of Magdeburg, and Nikolaus von Bismarck (1307-1377),
Margrave
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and
Hofmeister. As with virtually all the Siegesallee statues, these were damaged in World War II. Charles IV lost his head. Cauer was the last surviving sculptor from the project, and the only one who lived long enough to see the damage.
* 1901,
Tritons and
Naiads
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They are distinct from river gods, who ...
in the basin of the
Bismarck Memorial on the
Platz der Republik. The statues were moved in 1938 as part of Hitler's plan to renovate Berlin and the smaller figures were lost.
* 1902, "Young
Telemachus
Telemachus ( ; grc, Τηλέμαχος, Tēlemakhos, lit=far-fighter), in Greek mythology, is the son of Odysseus and Penelope, who is a central character in Homer's ''Odyssey''. When Telemachus reached manhood, he visited Pylos and Sparta in s ...
", in the plaza at the City Hall in
Saarbrücken. In 1936 it was dismantled and thought to be lost, but was rediscovered after the war and is now mounted in a niche along a suburban street.
[Christof Trepesch: ''Die Reihe Archivbilder / Saarland''; Sutton Verlag, 1999. , pg.94]
* 1915, "Fishermen",
relief
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in the Rheinanlangen promenade, Koblenz.
* 1925-1937 Figures from the
Salian dynasty
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After the death of the l ...
(
Conrad II and his wife Gisela,
Henry III, with smaller figures of
Henry IV and
Henry V Henry V may refer to:
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* Henry V, Duke of Bavaria (died 1026)
* Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor (1081/86–1125)
* Henry V, Duke of Carinthia (died 1161)
* Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine (c. 1173–1227)
* Henry V, Count of Luxembourg (1 ...
), in the Dompark,
Speyer
Speyer (, older spelling ''Speier'', French: ''Spire,'' historical English: ''Spires''; pfl, Schbaija) is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located on the left bank of the river Rhine, Speyer li ...
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1866 births
1947 deaths
People from Bad Kreuznach
Academic staff of the Prussian Academy of Arts
20th-century German sculptors
20th-century German male artists
German male sculptors
19th-century sculptors