Manik Bagh
Coordinates: 22 ° 42 ′ 32.9 ″ N , 75 ° 51 ′ 15.3 ″ E
Manig Bagh is a palace of the Maharajas of Indore in the Indian city of Indore .
The palace was built between 1930 and 1939 by Maharajah Yeshwant Rao Holkar II for himself and his wife Sanyogita Devi. The architect was the German architect Eckart Muthesius , who ensured that both the Bauhaus style in the architecture and the Art Déco in the interior were shown to their best advantage. The furniture was partially dismantled in Berlin, packed and shipped to Indore.
Muthesius had to leave India after the outbreak of World War II.
After the privileges of the Indian princes were abolished in 1956, the maharajas left the house, the interior furnishings were sold and auctioned at Sotheby’s in Monaco in 1980 . Manik Bagh is used today by the Indian state by the Commissioner Customs, Central Excise & Service Tax.
literature
- Reto Niggl: Eckart Muthesius 1930. The palace of the Maharajas of Indore. Architecture and interior. Arnoldsche, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-925369-55-4 .
- Reto Niggl, Annette Piening, Nicholas Grindell: India / India 1930–1939. Architecture, design, photography / photography. (German, English) Munich 1999, ISBN 3-00-003905-8 .
- Anna Jackson (Ed.): Maharaja. Splendor of the Indian royal courts. (Exhibition catalog, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, February 12 to May 24, 2010) Hirmer, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7774-2441-5 .