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Tavern Room “A withdrawing room designed and furnished to exquisite and sophisticated artistic taste”. Drachenfels and Schloss Drachenburg near Königswinter on the Rhine, undated, c. 1904 Although the Tavern Room served as a salon in general, “Gentlemen’s Lounge” would be a better description. It was here in an intimate atmosphere that the men would meet after the offi cial business of the day for confi dential chats and a few drinks. The artist Hermann Schneider (1847-1918), a pupil of the Munich-born history painter Carl Theodor von Piloty, created the large and vivid paintings. To the north, the wall arches depict The Childhood of Bacchus; east and west The Love of Bacchus for Ariadne on Naxos; and south The Triumph of Bacchus. These scenes are augmented by allegorical depictions on the ceilings: south, Dreams of Love; west, Dreams of Honour and Fame; east, Dreams of Riches; and north, Dreams of Blessed Enjoyment. Around 1931, the colourful canvases were banished under wallpaper once the Christian School Brothers had deemed the mythological depictions as too libertine and inappropriate for a Catholic boarding school. During the Second World War, the artillery shells destroyed the “delightful glass paintings” of the oriel windows. In the 1970s, however, the Bacchus artwork on the ceilings was uncovered and re-instated while the wall areas were re-imagined in line with historical postcard templates. Finally, in the course of the restoration work carried out in 2003, the paintings were gradually cleaned up, later overpaintings were removed and lacunae retouched. Similarly, the wall panelling that had been coated white-gold was returned to its former wood-like appearance. The original movable furnishings have not survived. Today’s historical furniture is inspired by images of the 19th century and thus, along with the paintings, exhorts you to “enjoy life’s pleasures” and “take a rest from work and woes”.
Looking into the Tavern Room with the paintings on the west wall: Bacchus and Ariadne on Naxos, postcard 1903. (Archiv Schloss Drachenburg gGmbH) Design sketches for the windows to the Tavern Room – from the archives of the Mayer’sche Hofkunstanstalt in Munich. Four amoretti representing French champagne, German sparkling wine, Bordeaux wine and Rhine wine (from left to right) with a garland of fruit in the centre. The designs for these windows were the creation of Hermann Schneider. Looking into the Tavern Room – with the south wall painting: Triumph of Bacchus – and into the adjoining Art Gallery. The fl anking pictures show the ceiling paintings (reversed) on the west side: Dreams of Honour and Fame.Lithography 1904 (Archiv Schloss Drachenburg gGmbH) 29
Page 1 and 2: Schloss Drachenburg Visitors’ Gui
Page 3 and 4: Intro Dear Visitor, It is a great p
Page 5 and 6: Architectural Decoration The design
Page 7 and 8: Venus Terrace The Venus Terrace pla
Page 9 and 10: „Save the Petersberg!“ The Pete
Page 11 and 12: The Icon of Rhine Romanticism: the
Page 13 and 14: Nordic Summer Houses The second own
Page 15 and 16: Wotan Summer House After Jacob Hube
Page 17 and 18: Sea of Rocks Geologically speaking,
Page 19 and 20: Roland‘s Arch, Rhine Romanticism
Page 21 and 22: Nature Conversationists and the Dra
Page 23 and 24: A view from the east into the Main
Page 25 and 26: Joseph Flüggen: Sleeping Beauty Po
Page 27 and 28: Looking into the Hunting Trophy and
Page 29 and 30: Lacunae in the Main Staircase paint
Page 31 and 32: Reception Room, postcard 1905 (Arch
Page 33 and 34: For further information about the C
Page 35 and 36: Dining Room, postcard 1905 (Archiv
Page 37 and 38: Nibelung Room with a view through t
Page 39 and 40: West side of the Art Gallery with b
Page 41: Uhland window with lacunae Found 20
Page 45 and 46: Hunt & Billiard Room, postcard 1905
Page 47 and 48: Library and Study Postcard 1903 (Ar
Page 49 and 50: Music Room, postcard 1905 - showing
Page 51 and 52: Layout of the Private Floor Porcela
Page 53 and 54: Preserved glass painting entitled Y
Page 55 and 56: Guest Bedroom, postcard 1905 (Archi
Page 57: Reconstructed stencils in the south

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