Stanislaus Cauer (18 October 1867 – 8 March 1943) was a German sculptor,

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and art teacher. He is best known for his monument to

Friedrich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (, short: ; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian. Schiller is considered by most Germans to be Germany's most important classical playwright. He was born i ...

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Cauer was born in

Bad Kreuznach Bad Kreuznach () is a town in the Bad Kreuznach (district), Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a spa town, known for its medieval bridge dating from around 1300, the Alte Nahebrücke (Bad Kreuznach), Alte Nahebrücke, ...

, the fourth of nine children born to the sculptor Robert Cauer and his wife Auguste, née Schmidt. His younger brother also became a sculptor. At the age of fifteen, Cauer began taking lessons from his father at their studio in Rome. He then went on several study trips to France and the Netherlands. After his father's death in 1893, he was persuaded to take over the studio in Bad Kreuznach, but became involved in family squabbles. In 1897, he returned to Rome and married Anna Chidel, the sister of one of his German friends there. Cauer was in Berlin by 1905 but, frustrated by the constant struggle to obtain commissions, he accepted an appointment to succeed

Friedrich Reusch Johann Friedrich Reusch (5 September 1843, Siegen - 15 October 1906, Agrigento) was a German sculptor and art teacher. Biography He was born to a long-established family of craftsmen. His father was a master carpenter. Initially, he was going ...

as a Professor and head of the sculpting classes at the Kunstakademie Königsberg. He was there for over thirty years. , , and were among his most notable students. In 1925, Cauer organized an exhibition at the Academy, which included works by

Käthe Kollwitz Käthe Kollwitz ( born Schmidt; 8 July 186722 April 1945) was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking (including etching, lithography and woodcuts) and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including ''The Weavers'' and ''The Peasa ...

. From 1931, he began making extended stays at the

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, where he created

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s. He retired from the academy in 1941. For most of his time there, he was a member of the

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. Cauer died in

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in 1943 and was buried in the graveyard at the Juditten Church. His grave has not been preserved. Kaliningrad 05-2017 img49 Schiller monument

Cauer created statues in stone and bronze, as well as a number of fountains. In addition to the Schiller monument, his surviving works in Kaliningrad include a marble sculpture, "After the Bath", and three

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s: two winged female figures and a

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. A statue known as "The Apple Thief" was destroyed. The "

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Fountain", created in 1908 for the International Fountain Fair in Posen, was moved several times and fell into disrepair, until after 2000, when it was restored and placed on the grounds of the .''Er schuf Königsbergs Puttenbrunnen.''
In: ''

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'', Folge 25-08, 21 June 2008.

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