Ludwig Cauer

[1] He was born into a family of sculptors who operated a workshop founded by his grandfather Emil Cauer the Elder.

After his father died 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.

He spent the years 1891 to 1893 in London then, after a brief stay in Bad Kreuznach, lived in Berlin from 1895 to 1905.

After World War I, he returned to Bad Kreuznach and concentrated mostly on funerary art.

[citation needed] His daughter Hanna and son Eduard also became sculptors.