Johann Joachim Kändler: 7 works

'The model maker Johann Joachim Kandler (1706--1775) started work in Meissen in 1731. During his long career he made several thousand models for the factory and created a new style in porcelain sculpture.'

'The Parrot climbing upside down on a tree trunk was represented by Johann Joachim Kaendler as if captured in a snapshot.'

'By 1733, the year the king died, more than thirty different models of birds and almost forty animals had been made, many by the sculptor Johann Joachim Kändler, who worked at Meissen from 1731 to 1775. Kändler drew this vulture from life, which allowed him to animate his work with the creature's quintessential spirit.'

'The modellers Johann Joachim Kaendler and Johann Gottfried Eberlein were commissioned with the design and the modelling.'

'One of the most successful likenesses by Kaendler is the bust of the "Kammer-Courier Junge", known as Baron Schmiedel, who alongside Joseph Fröhlich rose to fame as the second court jester of the Saxon electors in the Augustean period.'

'The Harlequins of the commedia dell'arte with their histrionic gestures, exaggerated facial expressions and bizarre movements are very much in keeping with Joachim Kaendler`s predilection for dynamic sculptures.'

'In 1751 Kaendler received a commission to create a monumental equestrian statue of Augustus III in porcelain.'