The latter, a study of the last generations of the ruling Wittelsbach dynasty of Bavarian kings, received excellent notices, and was in print twenty years later.

The erection of a statue to a living person required the permission of the Bavarian king.

The square centres on a statue of Max I Joseph, the Bavarian king who proclaimed Germany's first constitution in 1818.

Many of the city's finest buildings belong to this period and were built under the first three Bavarian kings.

The bay of the tower contains statues of the first four Bavarian kings.

It is named after the Nymphenburg Palace, former summer residence of the Bavarian kings.

In a report from the state police to the Bavarian king he was described - incorrectly - as their boyhood friend and fellow student.

The arms were approved by the Bavarian king in 1845 and go back to a court seal from 1747.

From 1820 until 1855 he worked as royal court painter of the Bavarian kings.

This continuously led to tensions with the Bavarian king and government.