Klaus-Peter Arnold

Klaus-Peter Arnold (* 1939 ) is a German art historian .

Life

Klaus-Peter Arnold studied German language and literature, art education and art history at the Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig and worked at the Central School Mühlen Eichsen as a high school teacher and district advisor for art education (Gadebusch district). From 1970 he was a research assistant at the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Pillnitz Castle , from 1979 curator there . In 1980 he received his doctorate under Hans-Joachim Mrusek at the University of Halle . In 1984 he became deputy director of the porcelain collection in Dresden, and from 1985 to 1993 he was its director. From 1993 to 2002 he was artistic director of the Saxon Porcelain Manufactory Dresden in Freital - Potschappel , from 1997 also a partner. He has been retired since 2003.

Together with Stefan Möbius, Angelika Krüger, Denise Sander and Olaf Stoy , he was a founding member of Dresdner Porzellankunst eV in 2001

↑ Klaus-Peter Arnold: The history of the Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau from 1898 to 1930 and their contribution to the German applied arts movement Dissertation, University of Halle-Wittenberg 1980. An expanded version appeared in 1993 under the title Vom Sofakissen zum Städtebau. The history of the Deutsche Werkstätten and the garden city of Hellerau . Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1993 ( table of contents ) a
↑ These founding members are named by Olaf Stoy in 2011. See the report by Johannes Eichenthal, “140 Years of Dresden Porcelain Art” from February 21, 2012 [1] , in which the full text of Olaf Stoy's speech at the opening of the exhibition “Now to X / II - Dresden Porcelain Yesterday and Today” in Freitaler Schloss Burgk was made available.
^ Dresdner Porzellankunst (Internet Archive). Retrieved May 10, 2019.