[1] Lauters studied under the sculptor Charles Malaise (1775–1836) at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts from 1820 to 1823.

From 1823 he worked for the Gouban & Dewasme-Pletinckx lithographic company at the same time as Jean-Baptiste Madou.

He collaborated with the painter Théodore Fourmois in 1839, producing images of the abbey ruins at Villers-la-Ville.

In 1840 Lauters produced illustrations for Les Aventures de Till Eulenspiegel and for Les Aventures de Jean-Paul Choppart.

In 1848 he was appointed professor at the Académie des Beaux-Arts of Brussels.