Photo credits
Seven pictures on this site are other people’s work, taken from Wikimedia Commons. Five are photographs and two are paintings. Most are used under Creative Commons licences that allow anyone to reuse them and require that the maker is named; the two paintings are old enough to be in the public domain and are credited anyway. This page names all seven, links each back to its file page on Commons, and states the licence it is used under.
Why these seven are not made pictures
The pictures on this site that set a mood — swans on a still canal, an avenue of pleached limes, hoar frost on a box hedge, a porcelain dancer on a dark table — were made for it, and not one of them has a building in it. That is deliberate. The seven below could not honestly be anything but real, because each is a specific thing in a specific place: the palace front across the central canal, the Steinerner Saal, Johann Baptist Zimmermann’s ceiling above it, the Hall of Mirrors in the Amalienburg out in the park, and the great fountain in the grounds. A picture of a baroque hall is not that hall, and a page about a ceiling painted by a named man should show the ceiling he painted.
Two of the seven are paintings
Joseph Karl Stieler’s portrait of Auguste Strobl is one of the 36 pictures in the Gallery of Beauties, and it is a painting hanging in the palace rather than a photograph of a room — it belongs on the Gallery of Beauties for that reason. R. Wenig’s night sleigh ride, from about 1880, is also a painting and is captioned as one everywhere it appears. It shows a sleigh, at night, in paint. It is not a photograph, it is not evidence of what any evening looked like, and it is the only picture on this site where the difference could mislead somebody if it were not stated.
There is also a picture this site does not have, and the gap is worth naming: there is no photograph of a state coach here, because the Commons pool does not contain one. Every file that sorted into the coaches category turned out to show the Marstall building rather than anything inside it. So the Marstallmuseum describes the collection in words instead of illustrating a coach museum with a photograph of a roof.
Each row below is generated from the same list that puts the file on the page, so a caption cannot drift away from the picture it describes. The link goes to the file page on Commons, where the full licence terms live.
| What it shows | File on Wikimedia Commons | Photographer or painter | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| The palace front across the central canal | Blick auf Mittelkanal und Schloss Schlosspark Nymphenburg Muenchen-2.jpg | Rufus46 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| The Steinerner Saal, the hall that runs through the centre block | Steinerner Saal in Schloss Nymphenburg 2.jpg | AuHaidhausen | CC BY 4.0 |
| Johann Baptist Zimmermann's ceiling above the Steinerner Saal | Schloss Nymphenburg Steinerner Saal ceiling 1.jpg | Peulle | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The Hall of Mirrors in the Amalienburg, out in the park | Spiegelsaal, Amalienburg, Park Schloss Nymphenburg.jpg | Yelkrokoyade | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Joseph Karl Stieler's painting of Auguste Strobl, one of the 36 in the Gallery of Beauties | Stieler - Auguste Strobl (Schönheitengalerie).jpg | Joseph Karl Stieler, photo Lempertz | public domain |
| The great fountain in the palace park, which costs nothing to walk | Fountain in the Schloss Nymphenburg garden with greylag goose.jpg | AuHaidhausen | CC BY 4.0 |
| R. Wenig's painting of Ludwig II's night sleigh ride, about 1880 | Gemälde - Nächtliche Schlittenfahrt König Ludwigs II - R Wenig - um 1880.jpg | R. Wenig | public domain |
Reusing them yourself
Follow the link in the table rather than taking the file from here. Commons states the exact licence and the attribution it requires, and CC BY-SA additionally asks that anything you make from the image is shared under the same terms. Nothing on this page grants you a licence; it records the one the photographers granted.
If you took one of these and would rather it was not used here, write to me and it comes down.
Frequently asked questions
Are the pictures of Nymphenburg on this site real?
The seven listed above are, and they are the ones that identify the place: the palace front across the canal, the Steinerner Saal, the ceiling over it, the Amalienburg Hall of Mirrors, the great fountain in the park, and two paintings. Everything else on the site — the canal at dawn, the avenues, the parterres, the frost, the porcelain — was made for this site, has no building in it, and is never described as a photograph of Nymphenburg.
Why is one of the credited pictures a painting?
Because it is a painting: R. Wenig’s night sleigh ride, from about 1880. It is captioned as a painting wherever it appears here. The Stieler portrait of Auguste Strobl is a painting too, one of the 36 in the Gallery of Beauties, which is the point of showing it.
Can I reuse these photographs?
Not from me, because I am reusing them myself. Follow the link in the table to the file page on Wikimedia Commons, where the exact licence and the attribution it requires are set out. CC BY-SA in particular asks you to share any adaptation under the same terms.
Is there a photograph of the state coaches?
No, and that is a gap rather than an oversight. Every Commons file that sorted into the coaches category is a picture of the Marstall building, which is the royal stables the museum sits inside. Rather than illustrate a coach collection with a photograph of a roof, the Marstallmuseum describes it in words.