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On December 24, 1793, the future King Frederick Wilhelm III married Luise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz, while his brother Ludwig married Friederike, Luise's younger sister, two days later. The court sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow produced a life-size clay model of the princesses in 1795. At the same time, a scaled-down version of the PRINZESSINNENGRUPPE was produced in biscuit porcelain for the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Berlin
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In 1795, Frederick II. Johann Gottfried Schadow to create a marble statue depicting Crown Princess Luise of Prussia with her younger sister, Friederike of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. A smaller version made of biscuit porcelain produced in 1796 for KPM Berlin.
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On December 24, 1793, the future King Frederick III married Luise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz; his brother Ludwig married Friederike, Luise’s younger sister, two days later. In 1795, the court sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow created a life-size clay model of the princesses. At the same time, a scaled-down version of the PRINCESSES GROUP was biscuit porcelain in biscuit porcelain for the Royal Porcelain Manufactory Berlin; it is listed in the model book under model number 1246 in August 1796. This masterpiece of porcelain art is composed of 88 individual pieces. Commissioned by the Prussian King Frederick II. the double statue of the two princesses II. also executed in marble and completed in 1797.
The double portrait of Crown Princess Luise of Prussia (1776–1810) and her sister Princess Friederike (1778–1841), known as the PRINCESSES GROUP, was commissioned by King Frederick II. of Prussia shortly after the marriage of the two sisters—who were from the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz—to his sons, the Prussian Crown Prince Frederick III (1770–1840) and Prince Ludwig (1773–1796), in December 1793.
Not only the king, who chose the sisters as wives for his sons, but also other contemporaries were taken with the youthful beauty of the two. Goethe wrote in 1793 that "the two young ladies could be considered heavenly apparitions, whose impression will never fade from my mind". This fascination was not only directed at the sitters themselves; Schadow's work also caused a sensation during its presentation at the Berlin Academy exhibition in September 1797. There, the sculptor exhibited a life-size marble version of the PRINZESSINNENGRUPPE (temporarily in the vestibule of the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin), while smaller versions were produced for sale in biscuit porcelain at the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin. An elegant austerity - very much in the spirit of classicism - combined with the grace of the subject always enchants the viewer anew.
The Berlin Porcelain Manufactory still produces this exquisite group of figures by hand. To do this, 88 individually cast porcelain parts are assembled and fired in lavish artistic portrait work to create a new work of art.
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