Karl Ludwig Cauer (14 February 1828 – 17 April 1885) was a German sculptor in the Classical style.

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Cauer was born in

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. His father,

Emil Cauer the Elder Emil Cauer the Elder (29 November 1800 – 4 August 1867) was a German sculptor in the Classical style. Many of his children and grandchildren also became sculptors. Life and work He was born in Dresden to Carl Ludwig Cauer (1750–1813), a ...

, was a sculptor. His younger brother,

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, became one as well. He and his wife, Magdalene (1828–1906) had seven children. Their five sons all became artists:

, Hugo (1864–1918), Ludwig and Emil were sculptors; was a painter. His daughter, Maria (1861–1928) married the composer

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. He received his initial training in his family's workshop, then left for to Berlin, where he was given further instruction by Christian Daniel Rauch and Albert Wolff. In 1848, he moved to Rome to study

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. In 1851, he went to London to examine the

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, and stayed there until 1854; working as a portrait painter. He returned to Germany for three years, then went back to Rome, where he stayed until 1862. That was the year he was commissioned to create one of his best known works; the monument to

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. When that was completed, he settled in Bad Kreuznach and worked with his brother Robert at the family studio. After 1873, he divided his time between there and Rome, where he and Robert had another workshop. On behalf of the Prussian Ministry of Education, he was charge of producing casts of antiquities for use at art schools in Berlin. From 1877 to 1878, he was Chairman of the there. After 1881, he remained in Bad Kreuznach. In 1884, he visited the United States to attend the dedication of a monument in

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that he had designed; honoring assassinated President

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. When he returned, he was severely ill, so a major project, the in

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, had to be completed by his sons Robert and Ludwig. He died in Bad Kreuznach early the following year, aged fifty-seven. He is generally credited with being the inventor of ' (ivory gypsum), a molding substance and

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which is cheap and easy to clean.Klaus Freckmann (Ed.), Angela Nestler-Zapp: ''Die Bildhauerfamilie Cauer. Künstlerische Gestaltungen und gesellschaftliche Vorgaben'', Rheinland-Verlag, Köln 2000, , pg.40

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