[2] With a financial bursary from the Grand Duke, Baur was able to study between 1851 and 1855 at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, where he was taught by Max von Widnmann.
[1] Here he immediately received the commission for the two life-sized figures of Saints Conrad and Pelagius positioned above the west door of the Minster, which underwent an extensive restoration between 1844 and 1860.
[1] Between 1857 and 1861, Hans Baur worked at the newly established Fine Arts Academy ("Kunstschule") in Karlsruhe.
Two life-sized marble figures which he produced for the Villa Weschsler in Ulm on his return show clear signs of his study of Italian sculpture.
The imposing "Kaiserbrunnen" (loosely "Emperors fountain") in the Market Square in Konstanz features a niche on each of its four sides.