Five colour firings are necessary to allow the artistic onglaze painting to blossom

it is one of the most successful examples of the floral Art Nouveau in Munich

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which remains one of the manufactory's most beautiful to this day

Josef Wackerle

10000900 elfenbein Five colour firings are necessaryThe international career of the Nymphenburg animal figures was initiated at the beginning of the 20th century. Artists such as Theodor Krner, Josef Wackerle, August Ghring and Luise Terletzki Scherf shaped the unmistakable style of the manufactory the first giving their figures a lifelike representation while Scherf created animals with an idiosyncratic character and unique colours. Today the Nymphenburg range includes over 700 animal figurines. To be