r/Rococo • u/Claridiana • Jul 29 '26

Apartment of the Princebishop of Fulda, 1758

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u/TheFoxsWeddingTarot Jul 30 '26

Waking up hung over must’ve been hell.

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u/bong-jabbar Aug 04 '26

throws up again immediately

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u/ViscousPanther Jul 29 '26

I'm having trouble finding any historic info on the renovating architect or interior designers for this beautiful space

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u/Claridiana Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26

Yeah, it is hard to find info as not even the extensive German wiki page deals with the Rococo redecoration.

What I can tell you is that the golden frames for the mirrors and paintings that dominate the room were made by Franz Adam Weber. He also made the furniture. It is so good that one of the console tables is exhibited in the Met museum in New York, while the other ones are still in place in Fulda. Some information

The 47 paintings were painted by J.A. Herrlein. Some information

The original stucco was made by court sculptor Johann Nikolaus Koch.

Another interesting fact: After some political changes in Germany after the innergerman war of 1866 the cabinet was sold off and disappeared for some decades (that's how one table got to the US). Most of it remained in a remote palace in Germany though, was rediscovered after WWII and built up again in Fulda in 1961.

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u/bong-jabbar Aug 04 '26

so insanely extravagant