!!!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).

!Literature
S. Asche, B. P., Leben und Werk, 1978.



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