Picture Gallery
Spindler's Marquetry Chamber - Schloss Fantaisie / Bayreuth
Depicted here are pieces of architecture of a near
bluish appearance. Yet the hilly landscape with the
shepherds and their sheep and the cattle are clearly an
integral part of the Schloss Fantaisie. An entry in the
accounts of the privy purse of 1779 records wages for the
care of her Ladyship's Swiss cattle, in other words there
were shepherds and their flocks in the Schloss park
itself. In the rococo period, herds of cattle were used as
background. A description of a gala reception held at
Schloss Fantaisie in 1779 not only mentions herds of cattle
but also a hermit, a temple of virtue construction and a
Swiss festival, indicating the preference of Princess
Elisabeth Friederike Sophie for the influential trend in
sentimental garden design. Obviously, to create a total impression in his
marquetry scenes Spindler had to include Swiss houses and
hermitages, because they were indispensable elements of the
'furnished' garden.
