Dresden school

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Dresden school (term used from 1730-1933) is a phrase used for an architectural style developed primarily in Dresden, Germany, by European architects mainly from Germany and Italy. Architects of this style created Baroque and Renaissance buildings and later city villas in large numbers, but also synagogues and public schools.

One important member was Gottfried Semper, who built the Dresden Semperoper, with the panther-quadriga (chariot) by sculptor Johannes Schilling (1828-1910). Important sculptors were Ernst Rietschel and Ernst Julius Hähnel.

[edit] See also

• Blue Wonder

[edit] Source

• Jarl Kremeier, "Dresden" Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, [December 13, 2005].