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German sculptor (–)

Balthasar Permoser (13 August &#; 18 February ) was among the leading sculptors of his generation,^[1] whose evolving working styles spanned the late Baroque and early Rococo.

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Balthasar Permoser: Leben Und Werk.

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Permoser was trained in Florence under Foggini, whence he was summoned to Dresden in His painterly conception of sculpture.

Balthasar Permoser was an important Baroque sculptor known for dynamic dramatic compositions and exquisite carving skills.

Biography

Permoser was born in Kammer bei Waging, Salzburg, today a part of the Bavarian town of Traunstein. He was trained first in Salzburg, in the workshop of Wolf Weißenkirchner the Younger and in Vienna, where he learned the art of ivory carving, before he left in on a trip to Florence to work for Giovanni Battista Foggini, in whose studio he remained fourteen years, maturing his style.

Called to Dresden in by Johann Georg III, Elector of Saxony, he executed two monumental garden sculptures of Hercules.^{[citation needed]}

In , on the way to Italy once more, Permoser remained almost a year in his old haunts during which he sculpted the atlantes for the west doorway of the Hofstallung in Salzburg.

In the years &#;, he worked at the Sc