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49<br />

Figural Painting<br />

Figürliche Malerei<br />

In the 1720s, Johann Gregorius Höroldt drafted a painting copybook of<br />

“chinoiserie motifs” for Augustus the Strong, who, like most monarchs of the time,<br />

was crazy about chinoiserie. In the process, Höroldt came up with a wholly<br />

distinctive style of figural painting so unique as to be only found at <strong>MEISSEN</strong> ® .<br />

Even today the Manufactory’s vastly accomplished painters create veritable works<br />

of art that allow the beholder to immerse themselves in the gaily coloured world<br />

of chinoiserie. European painting models increasingly began to take centre-stage<br />

from around 1740. Paintings by French artists such as Watteau and Boucher<br />

were particularly popular as source material.<br />

Für August den Starken, der wie die meisten Fürsten seiner Zeit der<br />

Chinoiserie-Mode verfallen war, entwickelte Johann Gregorius Höroldt in den 1720er-<br />

Jahren Malereivorlagen mit sogenannten Chinoiserie-Motiven. Dabei hat er einen ganz<br />

besonderen Stil der Figurenmalerei entwickelt, der so einzigartig nur bei <strong>MEISSEN</strong> ® zu<br />

finden ist. Auch heute noch schaffen die meisterhaften Maler wahrhaftige Kunstwerke,<br />

die den Betrachter in die farbenfrohe Welt der Chinoiserien eintauchen lassen.<br />

Bereits um 1740 rückten dann immer mehr europäische Malvorlagen in den<br />

Vordergrund. Besonders die Franzosen wie Watteau und Boucher lieferten mit ihren<br />

Gemälden beliebte Vorlagen.

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