August Bauer

[3] In 1889 Bauer went to Berlin, where he joined the studio of Otto Lessing and at the same time attended the Schule des Kunstgewerbemuseums.

It was decided to place the Bismarck-Denkmal within sight of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Denkmal, which had been inaugurated a few years earlier, in front of the Kunsthalle on Alleestraße.

Around 1906, Bauer was commissioned to model all the façade ornaments, including the figures of the main gable, at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court, Cecilienallee 4.

[11][12] Until 1935 Bauer was the owner of the house at Grafenberger Allee 32/34, in which he rented two studios to sculptors and rooms to painters, including Josef Körschgen and Gregor von Bochmann.

[13] Around 1936, Richard Vogt, director of the "Eos & Excelsior Deutsche Volks- und Lebensversicherungs-AG",[14] Eigentümer des Hauses; Bauer hatte noch für ein Jahr sein Atelier im Hinterhaus.

[17] Bauer was a member of the Malkasten and today's Verein zur Förderung der Bildhauerkunst in Nordrhein-Westfalen, and was secretary from 1904 to 1912.