Nymphenburg_-_Amalienburg_-_Blue_Cabinet

The Amalienburg is an elaborate hunting lodge on the grounds of the

Nymphenburg Palace Park The Nymphenburg Palace Park ranks among the finest and most important examples of garden design in Germany. In combination with the Nymphenburg Palace, palace buildings, the ''Grand circle'' entrance structures and the expansive park landscape for ...

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, in southern

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. It was designed by

François de Cuvilliés François de Cuvilliés, sometimes referred to as ''the Elder'' (23 October 1695, Soignies, Hainaut14 April 1768, Munich), was a Belgian-born Bavarian decorative designer and architect. He was instrumental in bringing the Rococo style to the Wi ...

Rococo Rococo (, also ), less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, ...

style and constructed between 1734 and 1739 for Elector Karl Albrecht and later

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Charles VII and his wife, Maria Amalia of Austria.

Architecture

Most of the ground floor is given over to the round ''Hall of Mirrors'' in the center of the building; its mirrored walls reflect the park. It was designed by

Johann Baptist Zimmermann Johann Baptist Zimmermann (3 January 1680, Gaispoint — 2 March 1758, Munich) was a German painter and a prime stucco plasterer during the Baroque. Zimmermann was born in Gaispoint, Wessobrunn. He and his brother Dominikus Zimmermann were ...

and Joachim Dietrich (1690–1753). It creates an ethereal atmosphere in the Bavarian national colors of silver and blue. In the south of the hall, the door leads to the electoral ''Rest Room'' and the ''Blue Cabinet'', with access to the privy chamber. The Rest Room was the bedroom of the Electress, and the pavilion also accommodates an armoury and a kennel room for the hunting dogs in the Blue Cabinet. North from the Hall of Mirrors is the entrance to the ''Pheasant Room'' and the ''Hunting Room''. The Pheasant Room is bordering the kitchen. The kitchen is decorated with precious tiles from

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which when being laid were mixed up by workers in the wrong order. The blue and white tiles in a Chinese style show flowers and birds. The ''Castrol

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'' (1735) built for the kitchen is a masonry construction with several fireholes covered by perforated iron plates. It is also known as a ''stew stove'' and was the first design that completely enclosed the fire. In the central niche of the eastern facade is a stucco sculpture by Johann Baptist Zimmermann, representing a scene with the hunting goddess Diana. The presentation introduces the image program in all facilities of the building. The attic was derived from 1737, also manufactured to a design by Zimmermann, with decorative vases. These vases disappeared at an unknown date but were recreated in 1992 to a design by Hans Geiger: four adorn the entrance facade; twelve, the garden side of the Amalienburg. A platform with ornate lattice, which is fitted to the building in the center of the roof, served as a raised hide for pheasant hunting: the birds were driven to the Amalienburg from the former pheasant (now menagerie) building. Since the castle could be supplied by the kitchen of Nymphenburg Palace, the Amalienburg lacks private farm buildings, unlike the other two park pavilions.

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