Auguste Cain

Auguste -Nicolas Caïn (* November 4, 1822 in Paris; † August 6, 1894 ) was a French animal sculptor and medalist.

Life

Caïn initially learned the butcher's trade, but then became a pupil of the wood sculptor Alexandre Guyonnet and later by François Rude. Caïn began exclusively to the artwork of the animals to devote, in which he brought it very soon too much truth to nature and full of character representation.

In an exhibition of 1846 he entered first with a small group of Bluthänflingen on defending their nest against a rat, and was in his first following work with the smaller animals, such as frogs who demand a King ( 1851) but, then gradually went over to the large birds of prey and created an eagle who defends (1852 ) his prey, an eagle, which hunts ( 1857), a hawk a vulture on rabbit hunting.

Most recently, he turned to the representations of the largest predators that he both in quiet conditions than in moving fight scenes masterfully portrays and monumental conception. Among these are:

• Lion in the Jardin du Luxembourg (1874 )
• Domestic strife of a lion and a lioness for a Boar ( 1875)
• A Tiger Family ( 1876)

At the Paris World Exhibition of 1878, a dramatic fight between two tigers of terrible vitality and a bull for the fountain at the Trocadero. 1879 his bronze equestrian statue of Charles II, Duke of Brunswick in Geneva was completed.

He was son of the sculptor Pierre -Jules Mène, whose daughter he married in 1852. His sons, Georges and Henri were both artists.