Jupiter
A statue of Jupiter stands in the Nymphenburg Palace Gardens in Munich. Dominik Auliczek, a celebrated sculptor of the eighteenth century, made it. He came from Bohemia and found his post at Nymphenburg.
At its porcelain manufactory he served as master modeller. There he honed a style that blends Baroque and Rococo with the Classicism then emerging. The Jupiter is part of a larger collection of mythological figures. Auliczek shaped that company of gods for the electoral gardens from 1770 onwards. Juno and Pluto number among the other deities. Together they populated the park with a pantheon of their own.
The subject is the Zeus of the Greeks: king of the gods and ruler of Mount Olympus. Form and detail bring the divine character to life. The hands that modelled porcelain gave that character its shape.
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