Balthasar Permoser - Traunstein, Bayern, D
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Büste des Bildhauers Balthasar Permoser in Traunstein. --- Bust of the sculptor Balthasar Permoser in Traunstein.
Waymark Code: WME2XE
Location: Bayern, Germany
Date Posted: 03/27/2012
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member Math Teacher
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Die große steinerne Büste des Bildhauers Balthasar Permoser steht auf einem ca. 1,50m hohem Podest aus Eisen vor dem Standesamt. Die Büste wurde vom Soroptimist International Club Traunstein 2010 gestiftet.

"Balthasar Permoser (* 13. August 1651 in Kammer bei Traunstein; † 20. Februar 1732 in Dresden) war einer der bedeutendsten Bildhauer des Barock.

Balthasar Permosers Geburtsort Kammer, als Ortschaft heute Teil der oberbayerischen Stadt Traunstein, gehörte damals zur salzburgischen Pfarrei Otting.

Permoser wurde in Salzburg zum Bildhauer ausgebildet und war Schüler von Wolf Weißenkirchner und Giovanni Battista Foggini. Als Vorbilder gelten Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini und Pierre Puget. 1670 ist Permoser in Wien nachgewiesen, von 1675 bis 1689 folgte ein längerer Italienaufenthalt, der den Künstler entscheidend und nachhaltig prägen sollte. Den Großteil dieser Zeit hielt sich Permoser in Florenz auf.

1689 wurde der Salzburger als Hofbildhauer nach Dresden berufen und schuf unter August dem Starken zahlreiche Werke. Seine vielfältige Tätigkeit in Dresden, vor allem für den sächsischen Hof, wurde durch abermalige Reisen nach Italien (1697/1698 und 1725), Salzburg, Wien und Berlin unterbrochen.

Permoser ist der bedeutendste und einflussreichste Vermittler der Formideen der italienischen Barockplastik nach Deutschland. Zu den Hauptwerken zählt vor allem der Skulpturenschmuck für den Dresdner Zwinger (ab 1711). Von Permoser stammt das Gesamtkonzept für die Ausgestaltung und zahlreiche Figuren aus Holz, Stein und Elfenbein. Besonders zu erwähnen ist auch die Apotheose des Prinzen Eugen in Wien.

Balthasar Permoser fand seine letzte Ruhestätte auf dem Alten katholischen Friedhof an der Friedrichstraße in Dresden. Die Hauptstraße durch seinen Geburtsort heisst zu seinem Andenken heute Balthasar-Permoser-Straße." Wikipedia (visit link)

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The larger than life-size stone bust of the sculptor Balthasar Permoser stands on a iron pedestal about 4,9 ft. of high infront of the registry office. The bust was donated 2010 by the Soroptimist International Club Traunstein.

"Balthasar Permoser (13 August 1651 – 18 February 1732) was among the leading sculptors of his generation, whose evolving working styles spanned the late Baroque and early Rococo.

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 1675 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 1689 by Johann Georg III, Elector of Saxony, he executed two monumental garden sculptures of Hercules. In 1697, on the way to Italy once more, he 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 1704–1710 he worked at the Schloß Charlottenburg near Berlin.

Then he returned to Dresden to collaborate with the architect Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann on the Zwinger palace, built 1710–28 for Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony, where he provided full-blown Roman Baroque sculptural details; for the Wallpavillon he provided six of the twelve festive, flexing, grimacing atlantes for which he is most remembered. For the Zwinger he also provided the sculptures for the Nymphenbad fountain. He died in Dresden.

His most famous independent, free-standing sculpture is an over-lifesize marble Apotheosis of Prince Eugene (1718–21; Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna), where the main figure, depicted with the attributes of Hercules, and secondary figures of Fame and a fallen Turk are linked in a tour-de-force of complicated Berninian diagonals that did not satisfy Prince Eugene of Savoy's classicizing taste. His two polychromed wood figures of St Augustine and St Ambrose, made for the high altar of the Dresden Hofkirche (1725), are in the Stadtmuseum, Bautzen, while the sculptural pulpit he carved for the chapel of Augustus was relocated in the Hofkirche, begun in 1738. He also provided sculpture for the wall-tomb of Sophie of Saxony and Wilhelmine Ernestine of the Palatine, in the Freiberg Cathedral.

Permoser collaborated as a modeller in the Dresden workshops of Johann Melchior Dinglinger, court jeweller to Augustus; notable examplers of this kind of collaboration are the two sculptures of Moors by Permoser, encrusted with jewelled decor by Dinglinger, in the Neues Grünes Gewölbe, Dresden. Permoser provided models to be executed in polished red stoneware at Augustus' manufactory at Meissen, notably a series of commedia dell'arte figures, ca 1710–12, that are the precursors of the porcelain figurines made first at Meissen and copied by manufactories all over Europe.

His private works extended to portrait busts, Rococo collector's sculptures of polychromed wood or ivory, reliquaries that combined sculpture and architecture, and sentimental works for personal devotion. Permoser's pupil Paul Egell and Egell's pupil Johann Joachim Kändler carried Permoser's style forward into the mid-eighteenth century." Wikipedia (visit link)
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