Martin Schauß

He initially served an apprenticeship at the Royal Porcelain Factory then, from 1888 to 1891, he studied sculpture at the Academy of Arts, with Fritz Schaper and Ernst Herter.

In 1897, he won the "Grand State Prize" from the Prussian Academy of Arts and went to the Villa Strohl-Fern in Rome, where he spent a year and a half.

Since 1893, he had been showing his works at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition [de], and was elected to their "Admissions and Arrangement Commission" in 1905.

Two years later, they presented a small retrospective of his sculptures and he received the "Gold Medal for Art" from Kaiser Wilhelm II.

[3] He was a supporter of polychrome sculpture, an idea being promoted by Georg Treu, and made several attempts to use colored materials; especially tinted wax.