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A native of Kammer, in Bavaria, Permoser learned his art in Salzburg, Vienna and Italy, in particular in Venice, Rome and Florence. In 1689 he was called to the court of Dresden by Frederick Augustus of Saxony and there was set to work, in collaboration with the architect P�ppelman, on the Zwinger, a palace with ample grounds for open-air festivities. Derived from Italian sources, Permoser’s art combined capricious curves with decorative exuberance in a half-pompous, half-bucolic style which became the standard for Rococo garden statuary.