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August III von Sachsen

male / Polish, German

king, collector of Dutch and Flemish painting

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: August III van Polen
Frederik August II (keurvorst van Saksen)
Friedrich August II
Friedrich August II (Kurfürst von Sachsen)
not to be confused with Friedrich August II of Saxony (1797-1854)

Qualifications: king, collector of Dutch and Flemish painting

Nationality/school: Polish, German

Born: Dresden 1696-10-17

Deceased: Dresden 1763-10-05

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of August II and Christiane Eberhardine van Brandenburg-Bayreuth;

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

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Venetië 1717
Polen 1733 - 1763
King of Poland. Crowned 17 January 1734, but only accepted as king in 1736
Dresden 1733 - 1763

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Literature

Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 239-240, 507
Levinson-Lessing/Kroll/Russakov 1958 , p. 2-3
Thijssen 1992 , p. 200
Marx et al. 2001
Husslein-Arco/Natter 2016 , p. 140-153, 212-213, and passim

D. Meijers, 'Two Princely German Collections and the Image of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art', in: F. Grijzenhout and H. van Veen (eds.), The Golden Age of Dutch Painting in Historical Perspective, Cambridge 1999, p. 130-141, esp. p. 130-137
E. Korthals Altes, 'International rivalry at the auction of Willem Lormier’s paintings in 1763: James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, and August iii, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland', Simiolus 38 (2015-2016), p. 273-288
Dirk Syndram, 'Die zwei Leidenschaften des königlichen Sammlers August III. von Polen Beiträge zur alten Malerei und zum Sammeln von Kunst', Niederdeutsche Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte. Neue Folge 4 (2019)

Project: Gerson Digital : Germany
Gerson Digital : Poland

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Creation date: 2013-06-11; Last modified date: 2022-12-16

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