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Dresden porcelain collection. (Report from Europe).(reopening of porcelain museum Zwinger in Dresden, Germany)(Brief Article)
Augustus II (the Strong), the elector of Saxony and king of Poland, was a passionate collector of paintings, sculpture, antiquities, and above all porcelain. By 1721 he had assembled more than 14,500 pieces of porcelain from China and Japan and, most importantly, from the porcelain factory he established at Meissen in 1710. Augustus himself referred to his passion for porcelain as his maladie de porcelaine (porcelain sickness).
In 1711 Augustus began to build the Zwinger, a palatial complex of buildings in Dresden. It was designed by the architect Matthaus Daniel Poppelmann and the sculptor Balthasar Permoser to serve for ...
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