Background
Caucig was born in Gorizia, at the time the capital of the Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca.
Caucig was born in Gorizia, at the time the capital of the Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca.
Caucig studied the first principles of art at Vienna, and went, aided by a grant, in 1779, to Bologna and to Rome, where he remained until 1787.
He is one of the best representatives of the Central European Neoclassicism. From 1787 till 1791, he lived in Vienna, and in 1791, he was enabled in the same way to visit Mantua, where he particularly copied Giulio Romano and reliefs on ancient sarcophagi. He returned to Vienna in 1797, and in 1799 became the professor of drawing at the Vienna Academy.
In 1810, Caucig"s nestor Cobenzl, who was the protector at the Academy, died and was replaced by Prince von Metternich.
In 1815, Caucig was offered the post of the director of the Painting and Sculpture Class, but refused it, and accepted it only in 1820. He held the office until his death.
They had no children.
From 1791 to 1797, he resided at Venice, where he was in 1796 named a member of the committee of the Accademia di Belle Arti.