In deep mourning we say goodbye to a great man and a gifted artist, who enriched the manufactory so much with his wonderful works and inspired collectors all over the world. On December 21, 2022 Peter Strang passed away after a serious illness in the circle of his family.

From 1950 to 1954, he learned the profession of modeller in the manufactory. His extraordinary talent led Strang to the College of Fine Arts in Dresden, where he studied sculpture from 1955 to 1960, graduating as a sculptor. When the artists' group of the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory was founded in 1960, he was one of its founding members and later served as the manufactory's artistic director and chief sculptor for many years. He made a decisive contribution to passing on the MEISSEN cultural asset from generation to generation and thus safeguarding it for future generations.

Peter Strang has remained loyal to the manufactory since 1950 and has created unique pieces in the field of porcelain sculpture in his studio until the end. Because even after reaching the "retirement age" he did not think of "retiring". For him, his art was not just any job, - it was a vocation, which he pursued with full passion until his death. Peter Strang became internationally known with his 1992 created figure "The Collector". He was inspired by the actor Armin Müller-Stahl in his role as Baron Kaspar Joachim von Utz. The film is based on the novel of the same name "Utz" by Bruce Chatwin.