This five-day, four-night Autumn Study Trip to Dresden has been jointly organised by Dr Melanie Doderer-Winkler and Dr Christiane Ernek-van der Goes (Kunstgewerbemuseum Pillnitz, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD)). 

The trip will include several visits to Private Collections, the Schloss Moritzburg, the Fasanenschlößchen set within Augustus the Strong’s former hunting grounds, the collections held within the Zwinger and Residenzschloß. Also the Schloss Pillnitz and Schloss Albrechtsberg. 

There will be exclusive access to the Dresden Residenzschloss and the exhibition ‘Fait a Paris – Jean-Pierre Latz at the court of Dresden’ (18 October 2024 to 2 February 2025), shown within the recently renovated State Apartments of the Residenz. 

Please contact events@furniturehistorysociety.org if you would like further detaiis and an application form. The deadine for application is Friday 24 May 2024. 

Audience Chamber of the State Apartment showing the gilt-silver firescreen from Augsburg in front of the signed and dated pendulum-clock on pedestal by Latz. The inscription states: Fait à Paris. Copyright: Kunstgewerbemuseum/SKD, photo: Frank Grätz