Native American Statues War

Native American Statues War



About the Sculpture.

• Artist: Carl Kauba.
• Replicas are cast right here in the United States.
• Small: 15 H x 6 L. Weight: 16 lbs.
• Regular: 26 H x 11 L. Weight: 50 lbs.
• All Carl Kauba Sculptures are mounted on a marble base. Each base has a gold plated plaque with artist and statue name.

Carl Kauba was born August 13, 1865 in Vienna, Austria. The son of a shoemaker, Kauba chose to follow his calling into the world of art. Collectors now rank him in a class with Frederic Remington and Charles Russell as one of the greatest portrays of American Western Art.

Kauba's Subjects wre typically Native American Indians, Cavalrymen, Cowboys, and Rough riders. His work has been fully appreciated on both sides of the Atlantic. Kauba's fascination with the West was fed by the stories of the German writer, Car May, whose tales of Western adventures were known throughout Europe.

It is thought that Carl Kauba traveled to the American West when he was about twenty-five, returning to Austria with numerous sketches, notes and several models of Western Sculpture. However many scholars believe that he never traveled to the United States at all, but instead relied upon the accounts of others and first hand artifacts to execute his bronzes.

Kauba expressed a great affection for Indians of the American West. He loved ornament, and this detail is seen in the reins of his horses, Indian Headdresses, weapons and costumes. He frequently created scenes of high drama depicted in his bronzes of Cowboys and Indians. Kauba's work is in the Harmsen Collection of American Western Art. After his death in 1922, his son continued the business operation. Some of his original mold are still in current Viennese foundry, Fuhrmann & Co.

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