Die Zeichenschule 2024 - Klassische Version

THE MEISSEN DRAWING SCHOOL: PAINTING TO ITS HIGHEST PERFECTION since 260 years Dear collectors and admirers of the Meissen Drawing School Calendar,The Drawing School is the start of a targeted training in the Meissen manufactory. Its existence takes account of the fact that training the interplay of eye and hand is an important practical preparation for the arts and crafts professions. Talent is a good prerequisite, but it alone is not enough to reach the goal. That is why porcelain designers and porcelain painters who have been working in the profession for a long time help apprentices to internalise important experiences in observing, recognising and depicting.In 1720, the 24-year-old Johann Gregorius Höroldt came from Vienna to Meissen to work for the porcelain manufactory. In a very short time he found many recipes for ceramic colours and, what was special, he also processed them. Höroldt lead porcelain decoration to its first artistic peak in the 18th century. Today, the manufactory associates his name not only with the memory of the most creative porcelain painter of the 18th century - he was the creator of most of the decorations that were created for porcelains of the Meissen manufactory between 1720 and 1764 - but also with the founder of the drawing lessons. Although these lessons could not yet be called systematic training, it was a first step. An improvement occurred when Johann Joachim Kaendler joined the manufactory in 1731, at the age of 25, and soon afterwards, in 1734, became model master. In 1740 he took over the direction of mould design in the manufactory and devoted himself to training in this context. He regularly gave lessons in drawing and modelling. In 1743, the painter and architect Carl Heinrich Jacob Fehling from Dresden took over the training of the "Lehr-Purschen" (apprentices). He was the first person to teach exclusively in the manufactory. Assistants helped, successors followed - and so the commitment of individuals eventually led to