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Bayreuth New Palace

Margravine's Rooms: Prussian Family Room

Picture: Sophie Dorothea

Sophie Dorothea von Preußen,
G. W. von Knobelsdorff, after 1737

 

Picture: Wilhelm I von Preussen

Friedrich Wilhelm I. von Preußen,
G. W. von Knobelsdorff, after 1737

 

The Margravine's Rooms begin with the Prussian Family Room, which contains many portraits of her parents (see pictures above) and brothers and sisters, most of them by the Berlin court artist Antoine Pesne and his pupil Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, better known as Frederick the Great's architect. Originally the room was clad with precious cedar-wood panels, which had a symbolic significance. As an evergreen tree which could become several hundred years old, it was a reference to the long history of the Hohenzollern dynasty.


internal link back to the Banqueting Hall

 

internal link further on to the former Audience Room and State Bedroom

 

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