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| | Munich : In Depth : Architecture | Frommers.com |
 | | As characterized by art historian Helen Gardner, baroque architecture was "spacious and dynamic, brilliant and colorful, theatrical and passionate, sensual and ecstatic, opulent and extravagant, versatile and virtuoso." This period saw the merging of painting, sculpture, and architecture into an integrated whole. |
 | | The towering figure of the movement, however, was Balthasar Neumann (1687-1753), whose architecture has been called "music frozen in time." Although he never worked in Munich, his Vierzehnhelligenkirche near Bamberg is Neumann at his most energetic and intricate. |
 | | By 1935, the so-called "Third Reich" style of architecture was the law of the land, with Munich (site of most of Hitler's earliest successes) providing the experimental background for many of its ideas. |
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