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The »Yellow Room« is located in the castle's East Wing. The living area is a successful and inspiring example of the stylistic transition from Art Nouveau to Art Deco. The room was the first of the living and guest rooms to be completed and served as a model for the design of the rooms on the first floor, which are also used as guest accommodations today.
With their warm brown-yellow colour scheme, the tiled stove, furniture, floor lamp, clock and wall decoration create a harmonious overall impression.
Friedrich Attenhuber, the artist generalist, used stencilling for the wall decoration. This technique, which already found use in ancient times, enjoyed great popularity during the historicist and Art Nouveau periods. It was used to ornately decorate stairwells and living spaces.
Attenhuber designed a number of tiled stoves which matched the room design in terms of colour, ornamentation and form. As in the Garden Room, the Red Salon and the Dining Room, the imaginatively designed tiled stove, produced by the ceramics manufacturer Ulbricht in Tegernsee, constitutes the centrepiece of the living space.
The brown-yellow porcelain owl, which proudly looks down from the wall clock, deserves special mention. It was made by the famous animal sculptor Theodor Kärner in the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory in Munich. As early as 1900, the Royal Porcelain Factory Copenhagen had brought lifelike, artistic porcelain figurines of small animals onto the market, which were highly regarded internationally. This set a Europe-wide trend that every prestigious porcelain manufacturer followed.
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This tiled stove was also made by the local stove setter Ulbricht based on Friedrich Attenhuber’s design. (© MPG)
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One of the stove’s green and yellow glazed corner tiles bears the designer’s initials: F.A. 1926 (Friedrich Attenhuber) (© MPG)
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In its construction and design, the »health bed« reflects the new awareness of physical hygiene and good sleep at the beginning of the 20th century. (© MPG)
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A symbol of wisdom and knowledge: the owl of the ancient goddess Minerva as the finial on the wall clock. (© MPG)
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The porcelain owl from 1914 is an example of the trend of the time towards small animal figurines. (© MPG)
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Prof. Theodor Kärner (1884-1966) was one of the leading artists in the field of animal porcelain figurines. The sculpture of the owl was produced using the elaborate underglaze painting technique. (© MPG)
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