Biography from Altermann Galleries and Auctioneers, Santa Fe - II:
| Chris Kauba
Born: Austria 1865
Died: probably Vienna, Austria 1922
Austrian sculptor of Western American bronzes specializing in Indians.
Kauba was the pupil of Carl Waschmann and Stefan Schwartz in Austria. He traveled widely in the American West, sketching and modeling, about 1895. He returned to Vienna where his Western bronzes were cast for the American market between 1895 and 1912. Small and medium bronzes were sometimes polychromed at the foundry. It is said that there were two Kaubas, father and son, and that the son modeled the small polychromed bronzes.
Resource: SAMUELS’ Encyclopedia of ARTISTS of THE AMERICAN WEST,
Peggy and Harold Samuels, 1985, Castle Publishing
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Biography from AskART:
| Born in Vienna, Austria, Carl Kauba became a well-known early 20th century sculptor of Indian and other western figures.
As a young man, he studied with Carl Waschmann and Stefan Schwartz in Austria and later traveled extensively in the western United States. He returned to Vienna where he had his bronzes cast, many of them of Indians and other figures of a vanishing frontier.
It is thought that there were two Kaubas, father and son, and that the son modeled the small, polychromed bronzes.
Source: Peggy and Harold Samuels, "Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West" |
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