page_title: Franz Anton Bustelli
hierarchical_section_title: Franz Anton Bustelli
caption_attribution_description: Franz Anton Bustelli: Liebesgruppe „Der gestörte Schläfer“, um 1756 Porzellanmanufaktur Nymphenburg Bayerisches Nationalmuseum München
context_page_description: Franz Anton Bustelli was a Swiss-born German modeller for the Bavarian Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory from 1754 to his death in 1763. He is widely regarded as the finest modeller of porcelain in the Rococo style: "if the art of European porcelain finds its most perfect expression in the rococo style, so the style finds its most perfect expression in the work of Bustelli".
  Bustelli was born in Locarno in Italian-speaking Switzerland, and died in Munich, Bavaria, just after his 40th birthday. Few details of his life are known, but he trained as a sculptor, probably mostly in wood, in Italy. He spoke and wrote German fluently, and may have grown up in Bavaria.
context_section_description: Franz Anton Bustelli (12 April 1723 – 18 April 1763) was a Swiss-born German modeller for the Bavarian Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory from 1754 to his death in 1763.  He is widely regarded as the finest modeller of porcelain in the Rococo style: "if the art of European porcelain finds its most perfect expression in the rococo style, so the style finds its most perfect expression in the work of Bustelli".
  Bustelli was born in Locarno in Italian-speaking Switzerland, and died in Munich, Bavaria, just after his 40th birthday.  Few details of his life are known, but he trained as a sculptor, probably mostly in wood, in Italy.  He spoke and wrote German fluently, and may have grown up in Bavaria.
caption: Pair of lovers group, Nymphenburg, 24 cm high; the integration of decorative scroll-work into the composition is characteristic.
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