Permoser, Balthasar#

b. Kammer near Traunstein (Germany), Aug. 13, 1651, d. Dresden (Germany), Feb. 18, 1732, sculptor, most outstanding master of the Baroque; apprenticeship in Salzburg and Vienna, 1675-1689 in Italy, then court sculptor in Dresden; also worked for other patrons. His works (apotheosis of Prince Eugène, 1718-1721, in the Austrian Baroque Museum, Vienna) unite Italian (G. L. Bernini), Austrian and German Baroque. His main works are in Dresden and Leipzig; for the Dresden court he created figures to decorate the outer bailey, tombs for two electoresses and two apotheoses of Elector Friedrich August I (as August II King of Poland); small ivory sculptures in the "Green Vault" (Dresden).

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