Munich - Asam House

(Local Name: Asam Haus) The 16th C. Asam Haus in Munich was acquired in 1733 by Egid Quirin Asam, who decorated it with lavish stucco ornamentation, giving plastic form to the South German technique of Lüftlmalerei (painted decoration on the exterior walls of houses). The themes of the decoration are mankind's artistic activity and the sensuous world (lower half), and Heaven as conceived by Christianity and by classical antiquity (upper half).