Baroque and Rococo
After the Thirty Years’ War princes and monasteries in a divided Germany competed in building. In the south the Baroque and Rococo became bright, white and gilded.
In Dresden Augustus the Strong built the Zwinger, a festival ground surrounded by pavilions, and in Würzburg Balthasar Neumann built the Residence, where Tiepolo painted the ceiling over the staircase. Frederick the Great built Sanssouci in Potsdam as a single-storey summer palace.
The pilgrimage churches of southern Germany, such as Dominikus Zimmermann’s Wieskirche and Neumann’s Vierzehnheiligen, unite architecture, stucco and ceiling painting in a single bright space. In Munich François de Cuvilliés designed the Amalienburg hunting lodge and the court theatre of the Residenz.