When August Göhring took up his position as a modeller at Nymphenburg in 1914

Pure white and sensual

It has helped to secure a place of honour in the history of European art for the South German Rococo beyond the Bavarian borders

The manufactory's extensive repertoire of figures also includes other supposedly inconspicuous

Wersin designed the Adonis form for Nymphenburg

10019529 Muschel When August Göhring took upOne of the most extraordinary and popular items from the manufactory is a "Memento Mori". When Ignaz Gnther designed his majestic crucifix in 1756, a skull was found at the foot with cross bones. With its distinctive eye sockets and the stylized shape of the jaw, the four centimetre small skull became an important artefact. Four individual cast parts are required to form this miniature in the master workshop, even the jaw has its own mould. In the