Munich Residenz: German Rococo Furniture

Munich Residenz (Part 2):

Hi everyone!  On Monday I showed you part 1 of my trip to the Munich Residenz with all of the lavish interiors.  Basically it was a bunch of beautiful empty rooms.  The Munich Residenz has 130 rooms, so today I am going to show you all of the German Rococo Furniture (or late Baroque in many cases) in some of the other rooms.  Warning!  Image Heavy.  Keep in mind that in addition to fine German Rococo furniture, you can also see styles from the Renaissannce, Baroque, and Neo-Classical furniture!

Many of the rooms have been refinished or rebuilt to accomodate the destruction of WW II.  I think they did a beautiful job at restoring as much as they could.  There are so many rooms, I don't know what exactly each of them are for but I tried to note the main ones, and if you tour the Residenz yourself (and you have plenty of time) you can hear the history of each room.  You can easily spend a day at the Residenz and probably still wouldn't hear the audio for all of the rooms. (Unfortunately my camera died and I had to use my mother's P&S but they didn't turn out so bad).   These images make me happy!



The Green Room was used as the ballroom and also belonged at that time to Elector, Karl Albrect.

Below, the State Bedroom.

Genuine royal porcelain of the treasury room.  These were from the Wittelzbach Dynasty.  I love the colors pale turquois and gold!

Below is the Charlotte Room (music room where Princess Charlotte Augusta was taught).

Me posing with my dude, (mad)King Ludwig II.  He headed the building of the Conservatory in the Residenz.  He is also the King that lived in the Hohenscwangau Castle and later the Neuschwanstein Castle.  I visited them in February, they are a must see!

Below, the Elector's bedroom or Karl Albrect.

Above is another part of the Stateroom and it was used as the conference room for the Elector fashioined in French designs and furniture.

My goodness these chairs are killin me!

If you look closely, it's a small statue of a grown man breastfeeding.  Can't find any info on the significance of this statue but thought it was odd and worthy of inclusion.  Those pervy old German lol.

I think everyone knows my love for secretary desks by now.

I don't know how it happened but somehow we missed seeing the Theater which is one of the finest examples of Germany Rococo in the world.  Here is what it looks like:



Source

Source for most of the historical info on this page can be found here.  It is also a good page to go to for more background information on these rooms. 

This completes our tour of the Munich Residenz.  It is a great museum to visit if you ever find yourself in Munich.  Munich is a cool city to visit (though driving is little scary there at times).  There is so much to do, so many stores, bars, museums, history, etc!  Once you enter the city center on a Saturday, you will usually hear a rogue DJ in the middle of the street blasting some beats and tons of people drinking beer and eating fest foods.  It seems like there is always a party going on in Munich!  Hope you enjoyed the tour and now share my obsession with Rococo.

If you could take a piece of furniture home from the Residenz.  Which one would it be?

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