When artist Gabriele Muenter died in 1962 she left her house with all her funiture and paintings to the public, so it could be enjoyed as a museum. She had lived in Murnau from 1909 till 1914 with her partner Wassily Kandinsky. And she stayed in her beloved littled house even after Kandinsky moved back to Moskau because of the impending WWI and even after he had gotten married to somebody else (idiot!).
She kept all of his paintings and lived with the portrait she had painted of him in her living room.
Of course nowadays, Kandinsky's paintings are worth millions and Muenter's art is finally recognized, too. Can you imagine how fascinating it is to walk around her house and her garden and touch the table she ate from and look at the banisters Kandinsky decorated?
A very different place we also visited was Schloss Linderhof, built by Ludwig II, the king that also owned Schloss Neuschwanstein and clearly was a bit out of his mind...at least that is what I think, daughter felt like a princess walking around all that gold and mirrows and heavy taffeta.
Ludwig II had his own grotto where he listened to Richard Wagner's operas and where, if he felt like it, a butler paddled him around in a little swan boat, decorated with roses and cubby little puttos.
After all that pomp only lots of good Bavarian food could help us collect our strength...
friend, her son and a bunch of dumplings and sauerkraut.
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